War crimes trial
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A war crimes trial is the trial of persons charged with criminal violation of the laws and customs of war and related principles of international law committed during armed conflict.
After the Continuation War in Finland, Risto Ryti (in the middle), the 5th President of the Republic of Finland, was the main defendant in the Finnish War-responsibility trials. Ryti was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.
The 1902 court-martial of Breaker Morant was a war crimes prosecution that brought to trial six officers – Lieutenants Harry "Breaker" Morant, Peter Handcock, George Witton, Henry Picton, Captain Alfred Taylor and Major Robert Lenehan – of the Bushveldt Carbineers (BVC), an irregular regiment of mounted rifles during the Second Boer War.
