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War crimes

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individual act constituting a serious violation of the laws of war

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

1998 international treaty establishing the International Criminal Court

war of aggression

military conflict waged without the justification of self-defense

court without judicial credibility

Fall of Tenochtitlan

investment, capture and fall of Tenochtitlan by the Spanish Empire

drumhead court-martial

A court-martial held in the field to hear urgent charges of offences committed in action

superior orders

plea in a court of law that a person should not be held guilty for actions which were ordered by a superior officer

1571 fire in Moscow, Russia by the khan Devlet I Giray

Transair Georgia airliner shootdowns

part of the War in Abkhazia

Ethnic cleansing of Georgians in South Ossetia

mass expulsion of ethnic Georgians in South Ossetia

Human rights violations during the Syrian civil war

Wikimedia list article

Persian destruction of Athens

Persian siege and destruction of Athens (480–479 BCE)

Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation

destruction under the Mongol Empire

widespread destruction and extermination of people by the Mongols (13th century AD)

Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity

1968 United Nations treaty

Decree of War to the Death

Simon Bolivar's declaration of no quarter

law that provides immunity for past crimes

Designation in humanitarian law

Coalition for International Justice

2026 Qeshm Island desalination plant attack

Airstrike in the 2026 Iran war

1868 San Fernando massacre

1868 massacre in Paraguay