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📚 noun • entry_id 23679

war crime

/ˈwɔː kɹaɪm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
crimen de guerra • delito de guerra
A punishable offence under international law for violations of the laws of war by any person or persons, military or civilian.
[Paragraph] 441. The term "War Crime" is the technical expression for such an act of enemy soldiers and enemy civilians as may be visited by punishment or capture of the offenders.…
[W]ar crimes are such hostile or other acts of soldiers or other individuals as may be punished by the enemy on capture of the offenders. […] [A]lthough among the acts called war c…
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