The concept of war crimes is a recent one. Before World War II, it was generally ... were summarily executed or imprisoned. There was no structured approach to dealing with 'war crimes' nor ...

Finn notes, "World War II was the first major conflict in history ... which were also organized by MacArthur and resulted in the executions of Generals Yamashita and Homma, the Tokyo trials ...

The UN Mission for Human Rights Monitoring in Ukraine has confirmed 79 executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russians ...

IRAN is slaughtering its own people in “unprecedented numbers” with executions taking place every couple of hours as the “paranoid” regime lashes out in the wake of defeats ...

The war crimes trial of a former World War II gendarmerie officer continued in Hungary, after the accused was declared medically fit to stand trial. BUDAPEST (JTA) — The war crimes trial of a ...

"The execution of prisoners of war is a serious violation of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War and is classified as a grave international crime. Investigative ...

The United Nations has expressed “alarm” over a sharp rise in reported executions of Ukrainian soldiers captured by Russian ...

The remains of an American soldier killed in a Nazi war crime during World War II have been returned to the San Francisco Bay Area. U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Yuen Hop of Sebastopol was a waist gunner on a ...

International humanitarian law prohibits the execution of prisoners of war and the wounded, and regards it as a war crime. "Many Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered or were in physical custody of ...

Finn notes, "World War II was the first major conflict in history ... which were also organized by MacArthur and resulted in the executions of Generals Yamashita and Homma, the Tokyo trials ...