A war crime is a serious violation of the laws and customs applicable in armed conflict, known as international humanitarian law and the law of war, which gives rise to criminal responsibility under i
A U.S. soldier observing victims of the Malmedy massacre (December 17, 1944), where 84 U.S. prisoners of war were murdered by the Waffen-SS in Belgium
A picture taken by the Polish Underground of Nazi Secret Police rounding up Polish intelligentsia at Palmiry near Warsaw in 1940 for mass execution (AB-Aktion)
A ditch full of the bodies of Chinese civilians killed by Japanese soldiers in Suzhou, China, 1938
HRW wrote that the Saudi Arabian-led military intervention in Yemen that began on March 26, 2015, involved airstrikes in apparent violation of the laws of war.
Ratko Mladić was a Bosnian Serb military officer who led the Army of Republika Srpska during the Yugoslav Wars. Referred to as the "Butcher of Bosnia", he was found guilty in 2017 of committing war cr
War crime
…for his leadership of the gassing of Kurdish villages during the Iran-Iraq War; also governor of illegally occupied Kuwait during the First Gulf War . Ratko Mladić, indicted for genocide amongst other violations of humanitarian law during the Bosnian War; he was captured in Serbia in May 2011 and was extradited…
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia building in the Hague
Mladić in court, May 2012