War Crimes

There are treaties between nations regarding the conduct of war. The Nuremberg Principles define war crimes based on the law made up at the Nuremberg War Trials after the Second World WarCasus Belli, the case for war gives the grounds as self defence and UN permission which is a lot looser. There is also the voice of common decency. Of course when tempers are frayed it may get nasty. Then things can happen. They always have.

War Crimes - ex Wikipedia
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War crimes are serious violations of the laws applicable in armed conflict (also known as international humanitarian law) giving rise to individual criminal responsibility. Examples of such conduct include "murder, the ill-treatment or deportation of civilian residents of an occupied territory to slave labor camps", "the murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war", the killing of prisoners, "the wanton destruction of cities, towns and villages, and any devastation not justified by military, or civilian necessity".

Similar concepts, such as perfidy, have existed for many centuries as customs between civilized countries, but these customs were first codified as international law in the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. The modern concept of a war crime was further developed under the auspices of the Nuremberg Trials based on the definition in the London Charter that was published on August 8, 1945. (Also see Nuremberg Principles.) Along with war crimes the charter also defined crimes against peace and crimes against humanity, which are often committed during wars and in concert with war crimes.

Article 22 of the Hague IV ("Laws of War: Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague IV); October 18, 1907") states that "The right of belligerents to adopt means of injuring the enemy is not unlimited" and over the last century many other treaties have introduced positive laws that place constraints on belligerents (see International treaties on the laws of war). Some of the provisions, such as those in the Hague, the Geneva, and Genocide Conventions, are considered to be part of customary international law, and are binding on all. Others are only binding on individuals if the belligerent power to which they belong is a party to the treaty which introduced the constraint.
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Waging war without good reason should be included.

 

War Crime Defined By George Monbiot
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The Nuremberg Principles, which arose from the prosecution of Nazi war criminals, define as an international crime the "planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances". Bolton appears to have "participated in a common plan" to prepare for the war (also defined by the principles as a crime) by inserting the false claim that Iraq was seeking to procure uranium from Niger into a state department fact sheet.
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Mr Monbiot is a peace campaigner among other things. He has principles and does something about them. His definition covers Blair and Bush among many others.

 

Allies' War Crimes
Our lot did it as well.

 

American War Crimes
They were major and that was just in Germany after the war.

 

Busting the Torture Myths
Yes it did happen. No it was not the little people; they were just the ones who got thrown the the wolves. Bush and Cheney were in it up to their necks.

 

Canadian War Crimes
There was one major nasty. The evidence was incontrovertible.

 

Concentration Camps
The Nazis ran several concentration camps. People died there. So did Jews according to Jews demanding compensation. That is one major reason why a lot of lies got told. The Holocaust Industry tells us something about the tax free billions extorted by Singer and other light fingered rogues.

 

Ethnic Cleansing
Ethnic cleansing is an ugly euphemism for mass murder, terrorism and driving people from their land. It is popular in Israel. So is the cant going with it.

 

Gitmo
Holding prisoners without warrant is crime. Torture ditto. Of course if you control the law machine that is not an issue any more.

 

Israeli War Crimes
This could be Jews' crimes rather than just Israelis. Then it would be much bigger. The aftermath of The Second World War gave the Jew, Morgenthau his chance to murder Germans en masse. He took it and starved some 1.7 million of them to death. That is just one example.

 

Israeli War Crimes Against Gaza
The Gaza Massacre has a virtue. It showed the world rather clearly that Jews are vicious murderers and liars. They are finding that lying their way out of it is not going to be as easy as they thought. Olmert was the prime minister who started this one. Ditto for the invasion of the Lebanon. He is also a thief on trial now [ February 2010 ] for long term multiple fraud.

 

Israel's Crimes against Palestine
These are just some of them. They are part of a pattern of systematic evil. Gerald Kaufman, a Jew says:- They are war criminals and they are fools.

 

Japanese War Crimes
Japanese cruelty is notorious. It was not bad, it was worse as this source makes clear. Japanese Biological Warfare Experiments covers another aspect. Fortunately these victims were mainly Chinese.

 

Soviet War Crimes
They are gross. Their crimes against their own people are even worse.

 

War Criminals
They are out there, walking the streets with armed guards to protect them from decent people and citizen's arrest. Blair is only one of them.

 

Jews Say Her Majesty's Government Are War Criminals Too [ 13 October 2009 ]
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Paul Craig Roberts
“This is the Israeli notion of a fair deal: We’re entitled to do whatever the hell we want to the Palestinians because, by definition, whatever we do to them is self-defence. They, however, are not entitled to lift a finger against us because, by definition, whatever they do to us is terrorism. “That’s the way it’s always been, that’s the way it was in Operation Cast Lead..........

In the meantime, however, the Israeli government put Sawers and the UK government on notice that British support for the Goldstone Report would result in the destruction of the double standard that protects the West and Israel and create a precedent that would place the British in the dock for war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. “London,” declared the Israeli government, “could find itself in handcuffs if it supports the document [the Goldstone report].”
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All war criminals are equal but some are more equal than others. That is why the Nazis got aggravation at the Nuremburg war trials while the perpetrators of the Gaza Massacre got away with it and they are milking The Holocaust® story for every billion it is worth.
PS Doctor Roberts is a sound chap even though he was in politics for real.

 

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