List of war crimes

4473:, left Hill 22, northwest of Chu Lai. Private First Class John D. Potter Jr. took effective command of the patrol. They entered the hamlet of Xuan Ngoc (2) and seized Dao Quang Thinh, whom they accused of being a Viet Cong, and dragged him from his hut. While they beat him, other patrol members forced his wife, Bui Thi Huong, from their hut and four of them raped her. A few minutes later three other patrol members shot Dao Quang Thinh, Bui, their child, Bui's sister-in-law, and her sister in- law's child. Bui Thi Huong survived to testify at the courts-martial. The company commander suspicious of the reported "enemy contact" sent Second Lieutenant Stephen J. Talty, to return to the scene with the patrol. Once there, Talty realized what had happened and attempted to cover up the incident. A wounded child was discovered alive and Potter bludgeoned it to death with his rifle. Potter was convicted of premeditated murder and rape, and sentenced to confinement at hard labor for life, but was released in February 1978, having served 12 years and 1 month. Hospitalman John R. Bretag testified against Potter and was sentenced to 6 month's confinement for rape. PFC James H. Boyd Jr., pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 4 years confinement at hard labor. Sergeant Ronald L. Vogel was convicted for murder of one of the children and rape and was sentenced to 50 years confinement at hard labor, which was reduced on appeal to 10 years, of which he served 9 years. Two patrol members were acquitted of major charges, but were convicted of assault with intent to commit rape and sentenced to 6 months' confinement. Lt Talty was found guilty of making a false report and dismissed from the Marine Corps, but this was overturned on appeal. 4563:

Robert J. Vickers, and two others then formed a firing squad and executed two of the Vietnamese. The third captive was taken into a building where Allen, Belknap, and Anthony Licciardo Jr., hanged him, when the rope broke Allen cut the man's throat, killing him. Allen pleaded guilty to five counts of unpremeditated murder and was sentenced to confinement at hard labor for life reduced to 20 years in exchange for the guilty plea. Allen's confinement was reduced to 7 years and he was paroled after having served only 2 years and 11 months confinement. Maushart pleaded guilty to one count of unpremeditated murder and was sentenced to 2 years confinement of which he served 1 year and 8 months. Belknap and Licciardo each pleaded guilty to single murders and were sentenced to 2 years confinement. Belknap served 15 months while Licciardo served his full sentence. Alvarez was found to lack mental responsibility and found not guilty. Vickers was found guilty of two counts of unpremeditated murder, but his convictions were overturned on review

2948:(who was still commander-in-chief of the Western forces), after suffering serious defeats at the hands of the German army, decided to implement the decrees for the German Russians living under his army's control, principally in the Volhynia province. The lands were to be expropriated, and the owners deported to Siberia. The land was to be given to Russian war veterans once the war was over. In July 1915, without prior warning, 150,000 German settlers from Volhynia were arrested and shipped to internal exile in Siberia and Central Asia. (Some sources indicate that the number of deportees reached 200,000.) Ukrainian peasants took over their lands. The mortality rate from these deportations is estimated to have been 63,000 to 100,000, that is from 30% to 50%, but exact figures are impossible to determine. 184: 4307:. By January 1959 the camp had a population of 506 detainees of whom 127 were held in a secluded "closed camp". This more remote camp near Garissa, eastern Kenya, was reserved for the most uncooperative of the detainees. They often refused, even when threats of force were made, to join in the colonial "rehabilitation process" or perform manual labour or obey colonial orders. The camp commandant outlined a plan that would force 88 of the detainees to bend to work. On 3 March 1959, the camp commandant put this plan into action – as a result, 11 detainees were clubbed to death by guards. 77 surviving detainees sustained serious permanent injuries. The British government accepts that the colonial administration tortured detainees, but denies liability. 4336:, winning independence in the early 1960s. The French army killed thousands of Algerians in the first round of fighting in 1945. After the Algerian independence movement formed a National Liberation Front (FLN) in 1954, the French Minister of the Interior joined the Minister of National Defense in 1955 in ordering that every rebel carrying a weapon, suspected of doing so, or suspected of fleeing, must be shot. French troops executed civilians from nearby villages when rebel attacks occurred, tortured both rebels and civilians, and interned Arabs in camps, where forced labor was required of some of them. 2,000,000 Algerians were displaced or forcibly resettled during the war, and over 800 villages were destroyed from 1957 to 1960. 2311: 3378: 5390:(now Bangladesh). With 1–3 million people killed in nine months, 'genocide' is the term that is used to describe the event in almost every major publication and newspaper. Although the word 'genocide' was and is still used frequently amongst observers and scholars of the events that transpired during the 1971 war, the allegations that a genocide took place during the Bangladesh War of 1971 were never investigated by an international tribunal set up under the auspices of the United Nations, due to complications arising from the Cold War. Starting from 2010, indictments were issued to numerous participants. Several of them has since been executed or imprisoned. 10133: 11148:: "There was nothing funny about his soldiers' actions in Eastern Congo... Among the crimes alleged are mass murder, rape, and acts of cannibalism. Yet one senior UN diplomat has indicated privately that for the sake of peace, the investigation into Bemba's responsibility may be sidelined. It isn't just in Congo that trade-offs are being made. Skeptics point out that those who have stood trial so far have either been defeated in war or are retired and irrelevant. They insist there would be no chance of hauling powerful political figures in Washington and London before a court to answer for their actions..." 4449:

McGhee said he had just killed a VC and other VC were following him. At trial Vietnamese prosecution witnesses testified that McGhee had kicked through the wall of the hut where their family slept. He seized a 14-year-old girl and pulled her toward the door. When her father interceded, McGhee shot and killed him. Once outside the house the girl escaped McGhee with the help of her grandmother. McGhee was found guilty of unpremeditated murder and sentenced him to confinement at hard labor for ten years. On appeal this was reduced to 7 years and he actually served 6 years and 1 month.

4704:" – Briefly declassified (1994) and subsequently reclassified (2002) documentary evidence compiled by a Pentagon task force detailing endemic war crimes committed by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam. Substantiating 320 incidents by Army investigators, includes seven massacres from 1967 through 1971 in which at least 137 South Vietnamese civilians died (not including the ones at My Lai), 78 other attacks on noncombatants in which at least 57 were killed, 56 wounded and 15 sexually assaulted, and 141 instances in which U.S. soldiers tortured civilian detainees or prisoners of war. 3086:. Internal documents of the United States Army justified the killing of women and children, describing them as "auxiliaries" of rebels. A private memorandum of the Secretary of the Navy criticized "indiscriminate killings against natives". American officers who were responsible for acts of violence were given Creole names such as "Linx" for Commandant Freeman Lang and "Ouiliyanm" for Lieutenant Lee Williams. According to American journalist H. J. Seligman, Marines would practice "bumping off Gooks", describing the shooting of civilians in a manner which was similar to 3294:

months of fierce conflict in which all rich peasant and landlord property of all types was to be confiscated and redistributed to poor peasants. Party work teams went quickly from village to village and divided the population into landlords, rich, middle, poor, and landless peasants. Because the work teams did not involve villagers in the process, however, rich and middle peasants quickly returned to power. The Outline Land Law of October 1947 increased the pressure. Those condemned as landlords were buried alive, dismembered, strangled and shot.

9406:. Criticism of Israel's conduct focused on the proportionality of its measures against Hamas, and on its alleged use of weaponised white phosphorus. Numerous reports from human right groups during the war claimed that white phosphorus shells were being used by Israel, often in or near populated areas. In its early statements the Israeli military denied using any form of white phosphorus, saying "We categorically deny the use of white phosphorus". It eventually admitted to its limited use and stopped using the shells, including as a 2489: 2370: 9518: 10944: 10143: 21941: 4659:, which were internally reported between 5,000 and 7,000 civilian casualties. The official U.S. body count was 10,889 enemy combatants killed with 748 weapons recovered. The commander of the 9th Division, MG Ewell, was allegedly known to be obsessed with body counts and favorable kill ratios and said "the hearts and minds approach can be overdone....in the delta the only way to overcome VC control and terror is with brute force applied against the VC". 9445:, particularly during the final months of the conflict in 2009. The alleged war crimes include attacks on civilians and civilian buildings by both sides; executions of combatants and prisoners by the government of Sri Lanka; enforced disappearances by the Sri Lankan military and paramilitary groups backed by them; acute shortages of food, medicine, and clean water for civilians trapped in the war zone; and child recruitment by the Tamil Tigers. 10155: 59: 23: 4582:

Corporal Ronald J. Reese and Lance Corporal Stephen D. Crider. Minutes later, the 4 children were seen, apparently dead, in a small bunker. The Marines tossed a fragmentation grenade into the bunker, which then collapsed the damaged structure atop the bodies. Reese and Crider were each convicted of four counts of murder and sentenced to confinement at hard labor for life. On appeal both sentences were reduced to 3 years confinement.

4633:, which fought in the from November 1965 to November 1967. The unit gained notoriety after investigations during the course of the war and decades afterwards revealed extensive war crimes against civilians, which numbered into the hundreds. They were accused of routine torture, execution of prisoners of war and the intentional killing of civilians. US army investigators concluded that many of the alleged war crimes took place. 3686:, South Korea. Commanders feared enemy infiltrators among such refugee columns. Estimates of the dead have ranged from dozens to 500. In 2005, a South Korean government committee certified the names of 163 dead or missing and 55 wounded and added that many other victims' names were not reported. The South Korean government-funded No Gun Ri Peace Foundation estimated in 2011 that 250–300 were killed, mostly women and children. 5098:. Two groups of sappers entered the village, armed with grenades and satchel charges, most began burning houses and hurling their grenades and satchel charges into family bomb shelters filled with civilians who had fled to them for protection from the shelling. Civilian casualties totalled 74 dead, many of them women and children; 60 severely injured; and over 100 lightly wounded with 156 houses destroyed and 35 damaged. 2231: 9388:. An updated estimate the following month put the number of deaths for the six-month period from March to October 2004 due to starvation and disease at 70,000; These figures were criticised, because they only considered short periods and did not include deaths from violence. A more recent British Parliamentary Report has estimated that over 300,000 people have died, and others have estimated even more. 4288:– a loyalist militia recruited by the British to fight an increasingly powerful and audacious guerrilla enemy. The commanding officer of the soldiers responsible, Major Gerald Griffiths, was court-martialed for murder. He was found guilty and sentenced to 7 years in prison. In an atmosphere of atrocity and reprisal, the matter was swept under the carpet and nobody else ever stood trial for the massacre. 4944:. VC terror squads, in the years 1967 to 1972, were claimed by the US Department of Defense as having assassinated at least 36,000 people and abducted almost 58,000 people. Statistics for 1968–72 suggest that "about 80 percent of the terrorist victims were ordinary civilians and only about 20 percent were government officials, policemen, members of the self-defence forces or pacification cadres." 15805: 15762: 15073: 3278:, another high-ranking communist, reported that "the policy of annihilating landlords as an exploiting class had degenerated into a massacre" The population of the communist controlled area fell by 700,000 from 1931 and 1935, of which a large proportion were murdered as “class enemies,” worked to death, committed suicide, or died in other circumstances attributable to the communists. 13296:

population of Red Jiangxi fell by more than half a million — a drop of 20 percent. The fall in Red Fujian was comparable. Given that escapes were few, this means that altogether some 700,000 people died in the Ruijin base. A large part of these were murdered as “class enemies,” or were worked to death, or committed suicide, or died other premature deaths attributable to the regime.

9019:. Other members of al-Janabi's family murdered by Americans included her 34-year-old mother Fakhriyah Taha Muhasen, 45-year-old father Qassim Hamza Raheem, and 6-year-old sister Hadeel Qassim Hamza Al-Janabi. The two remaining survivors of the family, 9-year-old brother Ahmed and 11-year-old brother Mohammed, who were at school during the massacre, were orphaned by the event. 3566:, about 24 unarmed villagers were killed by British troops. The British government claimed that these villagers were insurgents attempting to escape but this was later known to be entirely false as they were unarmed, nor actually supporting the insurgents nor attempting to escape after being detained by British troops. No British soldier was prosecuted for the murder at 3479:, wrote a bone-chilling ballad about the mothers of Gio Linh village in central Vietnam, each of whom had lost a son to a French Army massacre in 1948. Troops decapitated their bodies and displayed their heads along a public road to strike fear into those tempted to accept the Democratic Republic of Vietnam's sovereignty. Massacres did not start with the Americans in 3305:), or Homecoming Legion, which was composed of landlords who sought the return of their redistributed land and property from peasants and CCP guerrillas, as well as forcibly conscripted peasants and communist POWs. The Homecoming legion conducted its guerrilla warfare campaign against CCP forces and purported collaborators up until the end of the civil war in 1949. 2400:. Once defeated, thousands of Hereros and Namas were also imprisoned in concentration camps, where the majority died of diseases, abuse, and exhaustion. German soldiers also regularly engaged in gang rapes before killing the women or leaving them in the desert to die; a number of Herero women were also forced into involuntary prostitution. 3255:, on the presumption that such "non-traditional" women were radicals. Nationalist forces cut off their breasts, shaved their heads, and displayed their mutilated bodies to intimidate the populace. From 1946 to 1949, the Nationalists arrested, tortured, and killed political dissidents via the Sino-American Cooperative Organization. 5472:

intellectuals took place during the last few days of the war. On December 14, 1971, only two days before surrendering to the Indian military and the Mukhti Bahini forces, the Pakistani army – with the assistance of the Al Badr and Al Shams – systematically executed well over 200 of East Pakistan's intellectuals and scholars.

5447:, were specific targets of the Pakistan army. Numerous East Pakistani women were tortured, raped and killed during the war. The exact numbers are not known and are a subject of debate. Bangladeshi sources cite a figure of 200,000 women raped, giving birth to thousands of war-babies. Some other sources, for example 8831:"The army attacks the local population as it passes through, often raping and pillaging like the militias. Those who resist are branded Mai-mai supporters and face detention or death. The Mai-mai accuse the villagers of collaborating with the army, they return to the villages at night and extract revenge [ 5269:, under which suspects were alleged to have been deliberately killed without any attempt to arrest them. In four separate cases considered by the European court of human rights – involving the deaths of ten IRA men, a Sinn Féin member and a civilian – seven judges ruled unanimously that Article 2 of the 8304:

government. As of the status of the main state actor in the war crimes in Liberia, Sierra Leone and the ongoing war crimes tribunal in the Hague for violating the UN sanctions, Libya's Muamar Gaddafi was elected to the post of President of the African Union. As of late January, 2011, Exxon/Mobile has

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PFC Charles W. Keenan was convicted of murder by firing at point-blank range into an unarmed, elderly Vietnamese woman, and an unarmed Vietnamese man. His life sentence was reduced to 25 years confinement. Upon appeal, the conviction for the woman's murder was dismissed and confinement was reduced to

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B Company in June 1953 with 20 unarmed people killed during the Mau Mau uprising. Members of the 5th KAR B Company entered the Chuka area on June 13, 1953, to flush out rebels suspected of hiding in the nearby forests. Over the next few days, the regiment had captured and executed 20 people suspected

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during "screenings" intended to extract information about the Mau Mau threat. Later, prisoners suffered even worse mistreatment in an attempt to force them to renounce their allegiance to the insurgency and to obey commands. Significant numbers were murdered; official accounts describe some prisoners

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in 1916 and early 1917, during World War I. Members of the Serbian intelligentsia in the region, mostly functionaries, teachers, priests and former soldiers, were detained by Bulgarian forces—ostensibly so that they could be deported to the Bulgarian capital, Sofia—before being taken into the forests

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Since many war crimes are not prosecuted (due to lack of political will, lack of effective procedures, or other practical and political reasons), historians and lawyers will frequently make a serious case in order to prove that war crimes occurred, even though the alleged perpetrators of these crimes

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The Syrian Government ordered an attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Shaykhun in Northwestern Syria in the early morning of 4 April 2017. The chemical caused at least 80 civilians deaths, and three medical workers were injured. The chemical caused asphyxiation and mouth foaming. It is suspected by

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resumed explorationary drilling in Libya after the exchange of the Lockerbie bombing terrorist was returned to Libya and Libya was taken off terrorist list by the Bush administration with the legal stipulation that Libya could never be prosecuted for past war crimes(regardless of guilt)in the future.

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kidnaps children and forces them to join its ranks. And so, incredibly, children are not only the main victims of this war, but also its unwilling perpetrators... The girls told me they had been given to rebel commanders as "wives" and forced to bear them children. The boys said they had been forced

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Multiple substantiated claims that prisoners of war were murdered to allow the "blooding" of junior Australian Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) troopers, in addition to events where unarmed civilians were killed. Report of investigation released in November 2020. Led to disbanding of 2nd squadron

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near Huế. They stopped and interrogated two unarmed Vietnamese men who Allen and Private Martin R. Alvarez then executed. After an attack on their base that night the unit sent out a patrol who brought back three Vietnamese men. Allen, Alvarez, Lance Corporals John D. Belknap, James A. Maushart, PFC

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On August 17, 1950, following a UN airstrike on Hill 131 which was already occupied by the North Korean Army from the Americans, a North Korean officer said that the American soldiers were closing in on them and they could not continue to hold the captured American prisoners. The officer ordered the

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were perpetrated on several occasions by Serbian and Montenegrin armies and paramilitaries. According to contemporary accounts, between 10,000 and 25,000 Albanians were killed or died because of hunger and cold during that period; many of the victims were children, women and the elderly. In addition

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The Ruijin base, the seat of the first Red state, consisted of large parts of the provinces of Jiangxi and Fujian. These two provinces suffered the greatest population decrease in the whole of China from the year when the Communist state was founded, 1931, to the year after the Reds left, 1935. The

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has avowed its responsibility for many of them, while for others no group has claimed responsibility. In addition to generating a widespread sense of fear, these massacres and the ensuing flight of population have resulted in serious depopulation of the worst-affected areas. The massacres peaked in

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was wrongfully arrested by the security forces for the murder of a British Army soldier and became the last person in the United Kingdom to be sentenced to hang after being convicted in 1973, largely on the basis of an unsigned confession produced by torture. His death sentence was commuted to life

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wrote: "The present war is no bloodless, opera bouffe engagement; our men have been relentless, have killed to exterminate men, women, children, prisoners and captives, active insurgents and suspected people from lads of ten up, the idea prevailing that the Filipino as such was little better than a

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were each found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. Morant and Handcock were executed, while Witton was reprieved and served a short prison sentence. Two of the other defendants, Major Robert Lenehan and Lieutenant Henry Picton, were found guilty of lesser charges. They were dismissed from the

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Yet unknown estimate of human deaths. Hundreds of homes destroyed. Thousands of people displaced. Ecocide. Deaths of uncountable number of animals. "Ukraine's agriculture ministry said 10,000 hectares of agricultural land on the Ukrainian-controlled side of the Dnipro had been flooded, and several

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The Ghouta chemical attack occurred during the Syrian Civil War in the early hours of 21 August 2013. Several opposition-controlled areas in the suburbs around Damascus, Syria, were struck by rockets containing the chemical agent sarin. Estimates of the death toll range from at least 281 people to

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investigating possible war crimes in the 2009 war accepted that white phosphorus is not illegal under international law but did find that the Israelis were "systematically reckless in determining its use in build-up areas". It also called for serious consideration to be given to the banning of its

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During the war against the Coalition and Afghan government, the Taliban committed war crimes including massacres, suicide bombing, terrorism, and targeting civilians. United Nations reports have consistently blamed the Taliban and other anti-government forces for the majority of civilian deaths in

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On 25 June 1965 the Viet Cong detonated a bomb on a floating restaurant "My Canh Café" on the banks of the Saigon River. 31–32 people were killed, and 42 were wounded. Of the casualties, 13 were American and most others were Vietnamese citizens. Another bomb exploded next to a tobacco stall on the

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On the morning of 1 March 1969 an eight-man Marine ambush was discovered by three Vietnamese girls, aged about 13, 17, and 19, and a Vietnamese boy, about 11. The four shouted their discovery to those being observed by the ambush. Seized by the Marines, the four were bound, gagged, and led away by

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or decapitation of women and murdering children by slitting their throats or banging their heads against walls. French sources estimated that 70,000 Muslim civilians were killed, or abducted and presumed killed, by the FLN during the war. The FLN also killed 30,000 to 150,000 in people in post-war

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instrument" to cut off testicles and fingers. "By the time I cut his balls off", one settler boasted, "he had no ears, and his eyeball, the right one, I think, was hanging out of its socket. Too bad, he died before we got much out of him." According to David Anderson, the British hanged over 1,090

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The Tel al-Zaatar Battle took place during the Lebanese Civil War from June 22 – August 12, 1976. Tel al-Zaatar was a UNRWA administered Palestinian Refugee camp housing approximately 50,000–60,000 refugees in northeast Beirut. Tel al-Zaatar massacre refers to crimes committed around this battle.

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estimated that the North Korean Army executed at least 500,000 civilians during the Korean War with many dying in North Korea's drive to conscript South Koreans to their war effort. Throughout the conflict, North Korean and Chinese forces routinely mistreated and tortured U.S. and UN prisoners of

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A series of killings committed by Serb military, police and paramilitary forces on Bosniak civilians in the Foča region of Bosnia-Herzegovina (including the towns of Gacko and Kalinovik) from April 7, 1992, to January 1994. In numerous verdicts, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former

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became a disturbing weapon used by the Expeditionary Corps, as did summary executions. Young Vietnamese women who could not escape approaching enemy patrols smeared themselves with any stinking thing they could find, including human excrement. Decapitated heads were raised on sticks, bodies were

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At the outbreak of the Chinese Civil War in 1946, Mao Zedong began to push for a return to radical policies to mobilize China against the landlord class, but protected the rights of middle peasants and specified that rich peasants were not landlords. The 7 July Directive of 1946 set off eighteen

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both the Nationalists and Communists carried out mass atrocities, with millions of non-combatants deliberately killed by both sides. Benjamin Valentino has estimated atrocities in the Chinese Civil War resulted in the death of between 1.8 million and 3.5 million people between 1927 and

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On 2 June 1971, Donaldson was charged with the murder of six Vietnamese civilians but was acquitted due to lack of evidence. In 13 separate incidences John Donaldson was reported to have flown over civilian areas shooting at civilians. He was the first U.S. general charged with war crimes since

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toward a nearby village. In answer to a Marine sentry's shouted question, he responded that he was going after a VC. Two Marines were dispatched to retrieve McGhee and as they approached the village they heard a shot and a woman's scream and then saw McGhee walking toward them from the village.

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According to various media reports, between 1,000 and 1,200 Lebanese citizens (including Hezbollah fighters) were reported dead; there were between 1,500 and 2,500 people wounded and over 1,000,000 were temporarily displaced. Over 150 Israelis were killed (120 military); thousands wounded; and

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The Ethiopians recorded 275,000 combatants killed in action, 78,500 patriots (guerrilla fighters) killed during the occupation, 17,800 civilians killed by aerial bombardment and 30,000 in the February 1937 massacre, 35,000 people died in concentration camps, 24,000 patriots executed by Summary

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was disintegrating in 1991, interest in Urkun grew. Some survivors have begun to label the events a "massacre" or "genocide". In August 2016, a public commission in Kyrgyzstan concluded that the 1916 mass crackdown was labelled as "genocide". Arnold Toynbee alleges 500,000 Central Asian Turks

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During the war, the Pakistan Army and its local supporters carried out a systematic execution of the leading Bengali intellectuals. A number of university professors from Dhaka University were killed during the first few days of the war. However, the most extreme cases of targeted killing of

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180 American prisoners of war, survivors of the Seoul-Pyongyang death march, were loaded onto a railroad car and brought to the Sunchon tunnel on October 30, 1950. Prisoners, who were already suffering from lack of food, water, and medical supplies were brought in groups of approximately 40

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and its local collaborators. A case was filed in the Federal Court of Australia on September 20, 2006, for crimes of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Starting in 2010, numerous perpetrators were imprisoned and executed for their involvement under the jurisdiction of the

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in January 1919, Captain Ernest Lavoie of the gendarmerie, a former United States Marine, allegedly ordered the killing of nineteen caco rebels according to American officers, though no charges were ever filed against him due to the fact that no physical evidence of the killing was ever

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stated that both Azerbaijani and Armenian forces committed war crimes during recent fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, and called on Azerbaijani and Armenian authorities to immediately conduct independent, impartial investigations, identify all those responsible, and bring them to justice.

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Five members of a platoon were indicted for murder and collecting body parts as trophies. In addition, seven soldiers were charged with crimes such as hashish use, impeding an investigation, and attacking their team member who blew the whistle after he had participated in the crimes.

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and My Khe of Sơn Mỹ. The My Lai Massacre was allegedly an operation of the Phoenix Program. 26 US soldiers, including 14 officers, were charged with crimes related to the My Lai massacre and its coverup. Most of the charges were eventually dropped, and only Lt. Calley was convicted.

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The paper quoted Taguba as saying, "These pictures show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency." The actual quote in the Telegraph was accurate, Taguba said -- but he was referring to the hundreds of images he reviewed as an investigator of the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in

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being roasted alive. Prisoners were questioned with the help of "slicing off ears, boring holes in eardrums, flogging until death, pouring paraffin over suspects who were then set alight, and burning eardrums with lit cigarettes". The British colonial police used a "metal

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for supplying chemicals to Iraq, that " thinks and considers legally and convincingly proven that the Kurdish population meets the requirement under the genocide conventions as an ethnic group. The court has no other conclusion that these attacks were committed with the

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has denied that its forces committed any war crimes and has strongly opposed any international investigation. It has condemned the UN report as "fundamentally flawed in many respects" and "based on patently biased material which is presented without any verification".

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Took place on January 20, 1976. Damour, a Christian town on the main highway south of Beirut. It was attacked by the Palestine Liberation Organisation units. Part of its population died in battle or in the massacre that followed, and the remainder were forced to flee.

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On 29 March 1971 the PAVN attacked Duc Duc in Quảng Nam Province systematically destroying the civilian hamlets with satchel charges and by setting fires. 103 civilians died in the blazing hamlets; 96 were injured and 37 kidnapped. At least 1,500 homes were destroyed.

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perished under the Russian Empire, though he admits this is speculative. Rudolph Rummel citing Toynbee states 500,000 perished within the revolt. Kyrgyz sources put the death toll between 100,000 and 270,000. Russian sources put the figure at 3,000. Kyrgyz historians

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implemented a military blockade on the KMT-held city of Changchun and prevented civilians from leaving the city during the blockade; this blockade caused the starvation of tens to 150 thousand civilians. The PLA continued to use siege tactics throughout Northeast

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From 31 January to 1 February 1967 145 civilians were purported to have been killed by Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines. Marine accounts record 101 Viet Cong and 22 civilians killed during a 2-day battle. Marines casualties were 5 dead and 26 wounded.

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Iran allegedly used volunteers (among them children) in high risk operations for example in clearing mine fields within hours to allow the advancement of regular troops. One source estimates 3% of the Iran–Iraq War's casualties were under the age of 14.

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prisoners of war to their homeland as quickly as possible, North Korea detained South Korean POWs for decades after the ceasefire. Over 88,000 South Korean soldiers were missing and the Communists' themselves had claimed they had captured 70,000 South

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Rounded up in an attack on a village, they were tortured. Claiming they were going to be exchanged, Serb forces put them on a bus, which they attacked with machine guns and grenades on June 14, 1992. Eight survived by hiding under bodies of the dead.

5067:. It had a population of approximately 4,000 people including many resettled refugees. After a mortar attack which forced many of the civilians to take shelter in their defensive bunkers, between 75 and 300 VC then moved through the village throwing 3266:, the communist authorities engaged in a widespread campaign of violence against civilians to ensure compliance with its policies and to stop defection to the advancing KMT, including mass executions, land confiscation and forced labor. According to 4318:

occurred on the night of 25–26 March 1953, in which Mau Mau militants herded Kikuyu men, women and children into huts and set fire to them, killing anyone who attempted to escape. Official estimates place the death toll from the Lari massacre at 74

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around Surdulica and killed. An estimated 2,000–3,000 Serbian men were executed by the Bulgarians in the town and its surroundings. Witnesses to the massacre were interviewed by American writer William A. Drayton in December 1918 and January 1919.

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Mau Mau militants also tortured, mutilated and murdered Kikuyu on many occasions. Mau Mau racked up 1,819 murders of their fellow Africans, though again this number excludes the many additional hundreds who 'disappeared', whose bodies were never

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into bunkers killing their occupants and starting fires killing 73 civilians and 15 pacification workers; a further 103 civilians were wounded. 570 homes were destroyed in the attack and the resulting fires leaving almost 2,800 people homeless.

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ostensibly to receive food and were shot by North Korean soldiers. 138 Americans in total died; 68 were murdered, 7 died of malnutrition, and the remainder died in the tunnel of pneumonia, dysentery, and malnutrition on the trip from Pyongyang.

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The number of civilians that died in the liberation war of Bangladesh is not known in any reliable accuracy. There has been a great disparity in the casualty figures put forth by Pakistan on one hand (26,000, as reported in the now discredited

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for the Prosecution of Crimes Committed During the Period of Democratic Kampuchea, commonly known as the Cambodia Tribunal, is a joint court established by the Royal Government of Cambodia and the United Nations to try senior members of the

3405:' had already killed 38,000." Julius Ruiz concludes that "although the figures remain disputed, a minimum of 37,843 executions were carried out in the Republican zone with a maximum of 150,000 executions (including 50,000 after the war) in 18543: 7558:

Acts of ethnic cleansing and mass murder of Bosniak civilians that occurred in the town of Višegrad in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, committed by Serb police and military forces at the start of the Bosnian War during the spring of 1992.

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with the instructions: "I want no prisoners. I wish you to kill and burn, the more you kill and burn the better it will please me. I want all persons killed who are capable of bearing arms in actual hostilities against the United States".

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According to the U.S. State Department 2016 Human Rights Report, in February 2016, Turkish security forces killed at least 130 people, including unarmed civilians, who had taken shelter in the basements of three buildings in the town of

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project data shows that 33% of civilian deaths during the Iraq War resulted from execution after abduction or capture. These were overwhelmingly carried out by unknown actors including insurgents, sectarian militias and criminals. See:

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Final report of the United Nations Commission of Experts, established pursuant to security council resolution 780 (1992), Annex VIII – Prison camps; Under the Direction of: M. Cherif Bassiouni; S/1994/674/Add.2 (Vol. IV), 27 May 1994,

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of November 1946, about 6,000 Vietnamese were killed by French naval artillery. The French employed electric shock treatment during interrogations of the Vietnamese, and nearly 10,000 Vietnamese perished in French concentration camps.

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holds Mr Taylor responsible for about 250,000 deaths. Throughout the 1990s, his armies and supporters, made up of child soldiers orphaned by the conflict wreaked havoc through a swath of West Africa. In Sierra Leone he supported the

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Several massacres were committed during this war which could be described as war crimes. Nearly 15,000 people, mostly combatants and militants, were killed during the war, including 6,000 Jews and about 8,000 Arabs (mostly Muslims).

10179:, which had been left after the occupation of the town. It was confirmed at least more than 300 bodies were in mass graves or stranded on the streets of the city. As of 22 April 2022 there have been more than 500 confirmed bodies. 7836:

Numerous war crimes committed by the Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia's political and military leadership on Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) civilians in the Lašva Valley region of Bosnia-Herzegovina, from April 1993 to February 1994.

8040:, in central Kosovo on 26 March 1999. The victims were locked inside a pizzeria into which two hand grenades were thrown. Before taking the bodies out of the pizzeria, the police allegedly shot anyone still showing signs of life. 3063:

were committed against the native Haitians population. Overall, American troops and the Haitian gendarmerie killed several thousands of Haitian civilians during the rebellions between 1915 and 1920, though the exact death toll is

8988:. The bombing was followed by retaliatory violence with over a hundred dead bodies being found the next day and well over 1,000 people killed in the days following the bombing – by some counts, over 1,000 on the first day alone. 10235:, mutilated their bodies, and then mined the place to kill people who tried to retrieve their bodies. They also blocked retrieval of bodies for 2 more days. This case is currently being investigated by Ukrainian authorities. 10040:

voiced "concern" over the Turkish government's operations and called for an independent assessment of the "massive destruction, killings and numerous other serious human rights violations" against the ethnic Kurdish minority.

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1–3 May 1995; invasion and permanent occupation of territory under international protection; Western Slavonia fully taken from RSK; 53 were killed in their own homes, while 30 during the Croatian raids of the refugee colons.

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The longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare. Republika Srpska and the Yugoslav People's Army besieged Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from April 5, 1992, to February 29, 1996.

2893:. According to U41's commander Karl Goetz, the British vessel was flying the American flag even after opening fire on the submarine, and the lifeboat carrying the German survivors was rammed and sunk by the British Q-ship. 5790:

This war ravaged the country for over 40 years, with several foreign actors playing important roles during different periods. From 2001 until 2021, US and other NATO troops took part in the fighting in Afghanistan in the

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The torture of Haitian rebels and the torture of Haitians who were suspected of rebelling against the United States was a common practice among the occupying Marines. Some of the methods of torture included the use of

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in an area of Northern Ireland known as the "murder triangle" and also carried out some attacks in the Republic of Ireland. Evidence suggests that the group was responsible for the deaths of about 120 civilians. The

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On March 16, 1968, a US army platoon led by Lt. William Calley killed (and in some cases beat, raped, tortured, or maimed) 347 to 504 unarmed civilians – primarily women, children, and old men – in the hamlets of

19465: 5262:(RUC) interrogators during the Troubles admitted that beatings, the sleep deprivation, waterboarding, and the other tortures were systematic, and were, at times, sanctioned at a very high level within the force. 3152:

against civilian populations, markets and rivers. Spain signed the Geneva Protocol in 1925, that prohibited chemical and biological warfare, while simultaneously employing these weapons across the Mediterranean.

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Although Germans were permitted to return and attempt to reclaim their land, it is estimated that only one-half of their number did so. Many found their houses destroyed and their farms occupied by strangers.

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Current action – Indicted on 17 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the UN, which has issued an international warrant for his arrest. As of April 2006 located, extradited, and facing trial in

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five years. Later clemency action further reduced his confinement to 2 years and 9 months. Corporal Stanley J. Luczko, was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to confinement for three years

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and against fellow Algerians whom they deemed as supporting the French or simply as refusing to support the Liberation effort. These crimes included killing unarmed children, women and the elderly, rape and

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56 Bosnian Serb civilians, including 21 women and three children, in the village of Gornja Jošanica. Victims were stabbed multiple times, had their throats slit, skulls and body parts crushed or mutilated.

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A Century of Postgraduate Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902) Studies: Masters' and Doctoral Studies Completed at Universities in South Africa, in English-speaking Countries and on the European Continent, 1908–2008

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likens it to the Japanese rapes in Nanjing and German rapes in Russia during World War II. "... 200,000, 300,000 or possibly 400,000 women (three sets of statistics have been variously quoted) were

20612: 13327:"Pomfret, John (October 2, 2009). "Red Army Starved 150,000 Chinese Civilians, Books Says". Associated Press. The Seattle Times. Archived from the original on October 2, 2009. Retrieved October 2, 2009" 3416:, opened an investigation into the executions and disappearances of 114,266 people between 17 July 1936 and December 1951. Among the murders and executions investigated was that of poet and dramatist 2579:, the German occupiers engaged in mass atrocities against the civilian population of Belgium and looting and destruction of civilian property, in order to flush out the Belgian guerrilla fighters, or 4923: 4527:

convicted in 1971 of premeditated murder of 22 civilians for his role in the massacre and sentenced to life in prison. He served 3½ years under house arrest. Others were indicted but not convicted.

2752:. This was carried out by certain elements of their military forces, who either massacred Armenians outright, or deported them to Syria and then massacred them. Over 1.5 million Armenians perished. 20927: 6647:

to walk for days knowing they would be killed if they showed any weakness, and in some cases forced even to murder their family members... every night up to 10,000 children walk into the centre of

3592:". The intent of this measure was to isolate villagers from contact with insurgents. While considered necessary, some of the cases involving the widespread destruction went beyond justification of 3217:

Specific war crimes alleged to have been committed by the Italian armed forces against civilians include deliberate bombing of civilians, killing unarmed children, women, and the elderly, rape and

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Crimes against humanity (ethnic cleansing, systematic forced conversions, crime of slaving); war crimes (murder of Yazidi POWs); crime of genocide (recognized by the UN as an attempted genocide)

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War crimes: Various unarmed male civilians (some of whom were named during a 2013 television programme) were shot, two of them (Patrick McVeigh, Daniel Rooney) fatally, in 1972, allegedly by the

2396:. In October, the Nama people also rebelled against the Germans, only to suffer a similar fate. Between 24,000 and 100,000 Hereros, 10,000 Nama and an unknown number of San died in the parallel 18368: 4246:. Other estimates are as high as 450,000 interned. Most of the remainder – more than a million – were held in "enclosed villages". Although some were Mau Mau guerillas, many were victims of 2513:, including derived war crimes, such as the use of poisons as weapons, as well as crimes against humanity, and derivative crimes against humanity, such as torture, and genocide. Before, the 3043:

town hospital, were detained by Bulgarian IMRO militants before being taken into the vicinity of Ljuboten and killed. An estimated 118–120 Serbian soldiers were executed in the massacre.

2268:" policy, many tens of thousands of women and children were forcibly moved into the concentration camps. Over 26,000 Boer women and children were to perish in these concentration camps. 20530: 19577: 10513: 5972:

Allegedly placed captured Taliban POWs in cargo containers, and did seal them, leading to deaths of those within due to suffocation and excessive heat, thereby constituting war crimes.

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International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of Intercourse and Education (1 January 1914).

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At least 110 people were killed in the attack, including women and children, claiming the lives of 10% of the farming community's residents. Dozens of homes were also burned down.

10720:, and demanding a halt to all arms sales to the country. 28 countries voted in favor, 13 abstained, and six voted against. Israel's ambassador accused the UN of anti-Israeli bias. 10186:

started on 24 February 2022 and ended on 20 May 2022. It has been confirmed at thousands of lives have been claimed through the siege and that the city has been reduced to rubble.

4663:, a battalion commander during Speedy Express, said "a lot of innocent Vietnamese civilians got slaughtered because of the Ewell-Hunt drive to have the highest count in the land." 20435: 17349: 9716:

to target rescue workers responding to previous strikes, summary executions of civilians and captured soldiers by both sides, indiscriminate shelling and use of highly inaccurate

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On 30 March 1965 the Viet Cong detonated a car bomb in the street outside the U.S. Embassy in Saigon killing two Americans, 19 Vietnamese and one Filipino and injuring 183 others

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committed by Tigray youth group "Samri" in its 24 November 2020 preliminary report as "grave human rights violations which may amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes".

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were committed by the Sri Lankan military and the Tamil Tigers. The panel has called on the UNSG to conduct an independent international inquiry into the alleged violations of

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against Berber rebels and civilians in Morocco. These attacks marked the first widespread employment of gas warfare in the post-WWI era. The Spanish army indiscriminately used

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Tras tan estrepitosa derrota, el ejército español no tuvo reparos en utilizar productos como fosgeno, difosgeno, cloropicrina o el mismo gas mostaza contra la población civil.

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interview that General Carlos Popovitch would shout, "Don't run away, we are brothers and friends. We don't mean to do any harm." Peasants who trusted Popovitch were shot or

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Numerous war crimes committed during the Bosnian war by the Serb political and military leadership mostly on Bosniak civilians in the Prijedor region of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

4559: 4037:, at least 100,000 people were executed on suspicion of supporting communism; others estimate 200,000 deaths. The massacre was wrongly blamed on the communists for decades. 2331:

included the summary execution of civilians and prisoners, burning of villages, and torture. 298,000 Filipinos were also moved to concentration camps, where thousands died.

18241:"Taguba denies he's seen abuse photos suppressed by Obama: The general told a U.K. paper about images he saw investigating Abu Ghraib -- not photos Obama wants kept secret" 21183: 16937: 10127: 20152: 19968: 17467: 15783: 10929:

On 29 February 2024, Israeli soldiers opened fire on a crowd of Gazan civilians seeking food from a humanitarian aid convoy, killing at least 118 and wounding many more.

21807: 10549: 8458:(1999–2000 battle phase, 2000–2009 insurgency phase) there were many allegations of war crimes and terrorism against both sides from various human rights organizations. 18972: 16808: 16538: 16375: 12827: 3503:, numerous atrocities were carried out such as mass killings, village burnings, torture, war rape, collective punishment, and throwing live prisoners out of airplanes ( 21750: 21745: 18330:

The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology later ruled al-Jamadi's death a homicide, caused by "blunt force injuries to the torso complicated by compromised respiration."

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by Marines and the gendarmerie on orders from their superiors. On June 4, 1916, Marines executed caco General Mizrael Codio and ten others after they were captured in

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insurgents killed over 12,000 Iraqis from January 2005 to June 2006, giving the first official count for the victims of bombings, ambushes and other deadly attacks.

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As Belgium was officially neutral after hostilities in Europe broke out and Germany invaded the country without explicit warning, this act was also in breach of the

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Karachi: United Press of Pakistan, 1974. pp. 74,226), all the other sources used by Rummel suggest a figure of between 8 and 10 million with one (Johnson, B. L. C.

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assassinated 100,000–150,000 civilians during the war, while Benjamin Valentino estimates that the French were responsible for 60,000 to 250,000 civilian deaths.

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On December 5, 1967, two battalions of Viet Cong were reported to have killed 252 civilians in a "vengeance" attack on the hamlet of Đắk Sơn, home to over 2,000

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Durante la guerra del Rif (1921–1927), la última pesadilla colonial, España fue una de las primeras potencias en utilizar armas químicas contra población civil.

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In August 2012, U.N. investigators released a report which stated that it was likely that Syrian troops and Shabiha militia were responsible for the massacre.

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officials. The shooting led to the unraveling of the North Carolina-based company, which since has replaced its management and changed its name to Xe Services.

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Following the fall of the eastern Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica the men were separated from the women and executed over a period of several days in July 1995.

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the conflict, with the Taliban responsible for 75% of civilian deaths in 2011. The Taliban also perpetrated mass rapes and executions of surrendered soldiers.

3552:: About 100–150,000 Chinese, Communists, Europeans (French, German, British), pro-Dutch etc. were killed by Indonesian nationalist forces and Indonesian youth. 2924: 21016: 20454: 19985:"Syrian Revolution 12 years on | Nearly 614,000 persons killed since the onset of the revolution in March 2011 • the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights" 17800: 15619: 13975: 9761:

The Syrian Air Force launched strikes on the rebel-held town of Douma, northeast of Damascus, killing at least 96 civilians and injuring at least 200 others.

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investigated 76 killings attributed to the group and found evidence that British security forces were involved in 74 of those. One former member, RUC officer

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Violent ethnic cleansing campaign against Greeks in Anatolia resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands. Turkey does not call the event mass genocide.

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Mass killing of Assyrian civilians by the Ottoman Empire's forces resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands. Turkey does not call the event genocide.

12771: 4088:, South Korean police arrested and killed people and their families who they suspected had been sympathisers during North Korean rule. During the massacre, 21977: 18412: 9964: 3516: 20917: 15122:

The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History, 2nd Edition [4 volumes]: A Political, Social, and Military History

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Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Korean War Atrocities of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. 83rd Congr., 1st sess., Part I. 2 December 1953:

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Enrique Cerro Aguilar. "España fue el primer país que utilizó armas químicas contra civiles en Marruecos en 1920". Revista Rebelión. 13 de enero de 2001.

2457:, said that villages were burned to ashes and Albanian Muslims forced to flee when Serbo-Montenegrin forces invaded Kosovo in 1912. Some chronicles cited 19786: 9498: 3262:, the communists executed 2,000 to 3,000 members of the Futian battalion after its leaders had mutinied against Mao Zedong. Between 1931 and 1934 in the 2323:'s infamous order "Kill Everyone Over Ten". The caption at the bottom reads: "Criminals Because They Were Born Ten Years Before We Took the Philippines". 7900:

13 Croatian inhabitants of Grabovica village by members of the 9th Brigade and unidentified members of the Bosnian Army on the 8th or 9 September 1993.

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Mass murder of more than 200 Bosniak men on 21 August 1992 at the Korićani Cliffs (Korićanske Stijene) location on Mount Vlašić, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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population causing casualties estimated between several hundred up to 5,000 deaths. On December 23, 2005, a Dutch court ruled in a case brought against

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On December 6, 1975, Black Saturday was a series of massacres and armed clashes in Beirut, that occurred in the first stages of the Lebanese Civil War.

5451:, refer to an even higher number of over 400,000. Pakistani sources claim the number is much lower, though having not completely denied rape incidents. 3475:, and body parts were taken as 'souvenirs'; Vietnamese soldiers of all political colors also committed such acts. The non-communist nationalist singer, 20771: 18896: 10119: 9430: 8917: 7886: 7655: 5254:

investigations which confirmed that the methods used to extract confessions were unlawful, Holden had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal in

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During the war 95 U.S. Army personnel and 27 U.S. Marine Corps personnel were convicted by court-martial of the murder or manslaughter of Vietnamese.

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military and deported from South Africa after being found guilty of neglecting one's duty and manslaughter, respectively. The last defendant, Captain

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Biserko, Sonja; Perović, Latinka; Roksandić, Drago; Velikonja, Mitja; Hoepken, Wolfgang; Bieber, Florian; Sofrenović, Sheila; Hrašovec, Ivan (2017).

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Koga, Yukiko (2016). Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption After Empire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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with all parties being responsible for grave atrocities against civilians and helped inspire later atrocities including war crimes during the 1990s

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War crimes, kidnappings, crimes against civilians, torture, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearance, sexual violence, use of human shields

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in Daljska Planina in June 1992 through their control of Serb paramilitary, as well as other crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, included them in a

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when Serb forces shelled the market. Two separate incidents. February 1994; 68 killed and 144 wounded and August 1995; 37 killed and 90 wounded.

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Crimes against humanity (Serb forces forcibly removed virtually all non-Serbs living there-nearly a quarter of a million people (mostly Croats))

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of civilians were allegedly committed by United States Marines and their subordinates in the Haitian gendarmerie. According to Haitian historian

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In the early morning of 11 June 1970 the Viet Cong launched a coordinated attack on Phu Thanh village, a complex of several hamlets, straddling

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in 1902 and the highest ranking American to be accused of war crimes during the Vietnam War. The charges were dropped due to lack of evidence.

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paramilitaries in the village of Ljuboten, Štip on 15 October 1915, during World War I. Sick and wounded Serbian soldiers, recuperating at the

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Bodies of civilians shot by Russian soldiers lie on a street in Bucha. The hands of one of the victims are tied behind his back. April 3, 2022

8858:, his people were hunted down and eaten as though they were game animals. Both sides of the war regarded them as "subhuman". Makelo asked the 21780: 21763: 20383: 19930: 19763: 19285: 16773: 15853: 12209: 12073: 9721: 9549: 9504: 3174:

and severing heads, noses and ears, which were collected by Spanish legionnaries as war trophies and worn as necklaces or spiked on bayonets.

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Valentino, Benjamin A. Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the Twentieth Century. Cornell University Press. 8 December 2005. p. 88

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War crimes: Iraqi insurgent groups have committed many armed attacks and bombings targeting civilians. According to Iraqi Interior Minister

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Reports of French soldiers, especially members from the French Legion, cutting up pregnant women's bellies were not uncommon during the war

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War crimes (indiscriminate shelling of city for 87 days until it was leveled to the ground. At least 1,798 killed, civilians and soldiers)

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On 30 August 1973 during a Viet Cong attack on South Vietnamese positions mortar fire hit a schoolyard killing approximately 20 civilians.

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Following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban has also executed civilians and captured insurgents during the ongoing

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and was subjected to violent torture during which his Indian counterparts pulled out his finger nails, cut out his tongue since he didn't

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On the night of 28/9 June 1968 the Viet Cong attacked Sơn Trà, a fishing village located approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) southeast of

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Hicks, Madelyn Hsiao-Rei; Dardagan, Hamit; Serdán, Gabriela Guerrero; Bagnall, Peter M.; Sloboda, John A.; Spagat, Michael (2009-04-16).

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International organizations have accused the Syrian government, ISIL and other opposition forces of severe human rights violations, with

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government soldiers. The Government originally armed the Mai-Mai as civil defence against external invaders, who then turned to banditry.

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16 unarmed women and children were killed in the Son Thang Hamlet, on February 19, 1970, with those killed reported as enemy combatant.

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under the commanding of head of Goyang police station between 9 October 1950 and 31 October 1950 of 150 or over 153 unarmed citizens in

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sentenced in Germany to life in prison for crimes against humanity. Former intelligence officer Eyad al-Gharib sentenced in Germany to

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Gewald, J. B. (2000). "Colonization, Genocide and Resurgence: The Herero of Namibia, 1890–1933". In Bollig, M.; Gewald, J. B. (eds.).

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occurred, in which 2,000 soldiers of the Spanish Army were killed by Riffian forces after surrendering the Monte Arruit garrison near

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Maloba, Wunyabari O. Mau Mau and Kenya: An Analysis of a Peasant Revolt.(Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN: 1993) pp. 142–43.

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on 14 May 1999, taking three groups of men into three different houses, where they were shot with automatic weapons and set on fire.

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within the country. In response to the rebellion, many Kikuyu were relocated. According to British authorities 80,000 were interned.

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Poison gas was introduced by Imperial Germany, and was subsequently used by all major belligerents in the war, in violation of the

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and unlawful attacks that have killed and injured civilians". Syrian Kurdish authorities accused Turkey of employing the chemical

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who are said to "have displayed a shameful disregard for civilian life, carrying out serious violations and war crimes, including

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War crimes; use of poison gas as a weapon; bombardments; starvation of population under siege; attacks against protected objects (

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21 June 1992; invasion and permanent occupation of territory under international protection; bodies buried in mass graves nearby

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The Surdulica massacre was the mass murder of Serbian men by Bulgarian occupational authorities in the southern Serbian town of

21716: 20290: 19966: 17936: 16863: 16478: 16280: 12512: 11713:(2018). ""The Bulgarians Were the Worst!" Reconsidering the Holocaust in Salonika within a Regional History of Mass Violence". 11042: 10680: 5924:, constituting a failure to bear arms openly, and misuse of the status of protected persons, to wit, journalists in war zones. 4858: 95: 17085: 15326:

Turse, Nick. Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam. New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co, 2013.

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34 Serbs, non-Albanians and moderate Kosovo Albanians were killed by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army near Lake Radonjić

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of being Mau Mau fighters for unknown reasons. It is found out that most of the people executed were actually belonged to the

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peacekeepers, its "largest and most costly" peace mission and "the bloodiest conflict since the end of the Second World War."

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use cluster munitions on the remote mountain village of Elistanzhi. The local school is destroyed with nine children inside.

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This was a massacre purportedly conducted by the South Korean Marines on 25 February 1968 of 135 civilians in Hà My village,

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emerged during the battle, including the use of chemical weapons by both Syrian government forces and rebel forces, the use

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Up to 10% of the island's population died (14,000 to 30,000) as a result of the conflict, and another 40,000 fled to Japan.

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DeMare, Brian James (2019). Land Wars: The Story of China's Agrarian Revolution. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.

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Over 100 Chechen civilians die in indiscriminate bombing on the Chechen capital of Grozny by the Strategic Missile Troops.

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This was a massacre purportedly conducted on 9 October 1966 of 29 to 168 South Vietnamese villagers in Binh Tai village of

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Urukun was not covered by Soviet textbooks, and monographs on the subject were removed from Soviet printing houses. As the

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https://afghanistaninquiry.defence.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-11/IGADF-Afghanistan-Inquiry-Public-Release-Version.pdf

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War crime (500–700 killed during the fighting. Additionally at least 240 unarmed prisoners executed, including civilians)

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During the 1975 invasion and the subsequent occupation, a significant portion of East Timor's population died. Researcher

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district of South Korea were killed. The victims were civilians and 85% of them were women, children, and elderly people.

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which stated that the destruction of property must not happen unless rendered absolutely necessary by military operations.

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says that "a toll of 150,000 is likely close to the truth", although estimates of 200,000 or higher have been suggested.

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estimated there had been 50,000 deaths in Darfur since the beginning of the conflict, an 18-month period, mostly due to

22011: 21797: 21740: 21509: 21309: 20851: 19592:"TORTURE WAS MY PUNISHMENT' ABDUCTIONS, TORTURE AND SUMMARY KILLINGS UNDER ARMED GROUP RULE IN ALEPPO AND IDLEB, SYRIA" 16047: 15796: 15654: 15404: 15064: 14092: 13896: 13737: 13365: 13147: 12881: 11522: 11032: 10580: 10168:, multiple buildings such as airports, hospitals, kindergartens were bombed. There has been abuse of prisoners of war. 9781: 8365: 7242: 3768: 3331: 2190: 2110: 1888: 498: 19712: 16914:"Security Council members condemn use of chemical weapons in Iran-Iraq conflict; demand observance of Geneva protocol" 15455: 12060: 10873:

conducted an airstrike on a market in Jabalia refugee camp, which was packed with civilians at the time of the attack

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Attacks on electrical grid during winter, leaving millions without heat, water or electricity during the cold weather

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Crimes against humanity, mass murder, massacre, attacks against civilians, use of banned chemical and cluster weapons

3534:, about 4,500 civilians killed by Pro-Indonesian and Indonesian forces and pro-Dutch and Dutch colonial forces (KNIL). 3507:). Between 11,000 and 90,000 Malagasy died in the fighting, along with about 800 French soldiers and other Europeans. 3163:'s campaign to 'cleanse Spain' resembled that in Morocco: intelligence-gathering through torture, summary executions, 2933: 20190: 20157: 19816: 17029: 16512: 16440: 15520:"The Australian Army and the Vietnam War 1962-1972 The making of tigers: south Korea's experience in the Vietnam War" 15465: 15257: 15197: 15130: 15023: 14992: 14965: 14836: 14782: 14755: 14378: 14327: 13766: 13330: 13288: 13238: 13039: 12938: 12776: 12733: 12474: 12454: 12313: 12261: 12223: 12149: 11870: 11306: 11279: 11252: 11225: 11198: 10415: 10103: 9347: 9040: 8706:

Indiscriminate bombing by the Russian Air Force of the village of Katyr-Yurt and a refugee convoy under white flags.

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19 Kosovo Albanian civilians, all women and children, were executed by Serbian paramilitary forces in March, 1999 in

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The Indochinese Experience of the French and the Americans: Nationalism and Communism in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam

12702: 11134: 2310: 109: 21008: 20265: 20233:"Російська ДРГ розстріляла 6 лісівників на Сумщині і півтори доби знущалась за допомогою дрона: подробиці трагедії" 17804: 17502: 15744: 13866: 12191:

Soldiers of their Own: Honor, Violence, Resistance and Conscription in Colonial Cameroon during the First World War

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within 24 hours. 70 were killed in explosions on the road south. Sources disagree about the source of the attacks.

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300,000–500,000 were displaced because of Hezbollah firing tens of thousands of rockets at major cities in Israel.

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This was a massacre purportedly conducted between December 3–6, 1966, of 430 unarmed citizens in Bình Hòa village,

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War crimes; offenses against the customary law of nations (outrages upon diplomatic plenipotentiaries and agents)

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War crimes: includes beating, torturing, and killing by British troops and communist insurgents of non-combatants.

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Farrar, L L Jr. (2003). "Aggression versus apathy: The limits of nationalism during the Balkan Wars, 1912-1913".

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as a "cannibalistic cult that has slaughtered whole villages and left its victims without hands, feet or faces".

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An account of this atrocity, known in Ethiopia as "Yekatit 12", is contained in chapter 14 of Anthony Mockler's

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and other localities in and around the immediate Nagorno-Karabakh zone of conflict, were totally unacceptable".

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Crimes against peace (armed suppression of popular uprising leading to war), crimes against civilians, torture,

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Serbian police. Four former-policemen were convicted and received prison sentences ranging from 13 to 20 years.

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9–17 September 1993; invasion of territory under international protection and assault on UN peacekeeping forces

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Other French crimes included deliberate bombing, torture and mutilation of civilians, rape and sexual assaults,

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men shot, and the North Koreans then fired into the kneeling Americans as they rested in the gully, killing 41.

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A Criminological Analysis of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq By Ronald C. Kramer and Raymond J. Michalowski

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Correctional Facility) came to public attention. These acts were committed by military police personnel of the

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backed by the Soviet Union and China claimed 400,000 to 1.5 million Vietnamese lives from 1945 to 1954. In the

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Courts, 300,000 people died of privation due to the destruction of their villages, amounting to 760,300 deaths.

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Les Secrets de la guerre du Liban : Du coup d'état de Béchir Gémayel aux massacres des camps palestiniens

5395: 5226:. Two brothers, whose names and casualty status were not mentioned in an article regarding the same matter in 22031: 18416: 17899: 16679:"The Demography of Genocide in Southeast Asia: The Death Tolls in Cambodia, 1975–79, and East Timor, 1975–80" 16624: 15552: 15336: 14890: 14654: 10275: 10198: 10033: 9370: 8981: 8387: 8386:, a right utterly alien, hostile, and repugnant to all extant international law, being a grave breach of the 6794: 5619:

was overrun by the Lebanese Christian militias, resulting in the deaths of approximately 1,000–1,500 people.

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during the winter of 1950–51. About 43 percent of all U.S. POWs died during this period. In violation of the

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massacre: about 25,000 Indo-European civilians, Dutch, and loyalists killed by Indonesian nationalist forces.

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Justice, Intervention, and Force in International Relations: Reassessing Just War Theory in the 21st Century

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Peace and freedom, Volume 40, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, page 57, The Section, 1980

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War crimes, crimes against peace (attacks against parties not involved in the war), crimes against humanity

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War crimes, crimes against peace (attacks against parties not involved in the war), crimes against humanity

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War crimes, crimes against peace (attacks against parties not involved in the war), crimes against humanity

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War crimes, crimes against peace (attacks against parties not involved in the war), crimes against humanity

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On October 23, 1993, the Croatian Defence Council attacked the village of Stupni do and killed 37 Bosniaks

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Around 1,004 civilians were purported to have been killed between 12 February and 17 March 1966, as part of

2212:, in which Austrian, German and Japanese leaders were prosecuted for war crimes which were committed during 22265: 22178: 22163: 21994: 21844: 21802: 21735: 21371: 21291: 20089:"Both sides obliged to 'spare and protect civilians' over Nagorno-Karabakh fighting declares UN's Guterres" 19842: 19026: 14575: 12583: 12329: 10542: 10522: 10209: 10081: 9872: 9565: 9160: 8992: 8886: 7929: 7190: 6692: 6657: 6293: 5302: 4383: 3967: 3614: 2336: 2105: 804: 564: 18387: 17706: 12802: 12663: 11600:

Dictionary of Genocide: M-Z Samuel Totten, Paul Robert Bartrop, Steven L. Jacobs, page 272, Greenwood 2007

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Eight Iranian diplomats were assassinated and an Iranian press correspondent was murdered by the Taliban.

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Thirty Years of Italian History: From Antifascism to the Resistance (1915–1945) Lessons with Testimonials

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the Kurdish population of Iraq." Because he supplied the chemicals before 16 March 1988, the date of the

6404:. Iraqi chemical weapons were responsible for over 100,000 Iranian casualties (including 20,000 deaths). 6308: 5130: 5111: 5016: 4935: 4898: 4788: 3788: 3601: 3286: 2509:

was the first major international conflict to take place following the codification of war crimes at the

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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

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and a Russian pilot to 12 years in prison for dropping eight bombs on the Kharkiv TV and radio station.

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Russian soldiers indiscriminately fired at refugees trying to flee across a collapsed bridge. 8 killed.

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Several human rights outlets and activists have gathered evidence of severe war crimes committed by the

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On April 16, 1993, the Croatian Defence Council attacked the village of Ahmići and killed 116 Bosniaks.

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War crimes (Maltreatment leading to death of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban) prisoners of war)

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and controlled the entrance to the city. The massacre was immediately preceded by the assassination of

3584:, 500,000 people (roughly ten percent of Malaya's population) were eventually removed from the land and 3377: 2851:, which was loaded with war supplies, after the crew had boarded the lifeboats, was sunk by the British 22250: 22056: 21986: 21888: 21817: 21730: 18430: 18346: 18318: 16313: 14163: 13950: 13586: 13418: 11517:. Thamyris, Intersecting Place, Sex and Race, Issue 13. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill/Rodopi. p. 33. 11071: 10356: 9750: 9472:

during the final stages of the civil war found "credible allegations" which, if proven, indicated that

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War crimes, Crime against peace (killings of 29 civilians and 71 soldiers; wounding 4 UN peacekeepers)

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Trent'anni di storia italiana: dall'antifascismo alla Resistenza (1915–1945) lezioni con testimonianze

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Almost 20 years of fighting... has killed half a million people. Many of the dead are children... The

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Taguba said that he saw "a video of a male American soldier in uniform sodomizing a female detainee."

17975: 16612: 14855: 14457: 13519:"Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls and Casualty Statistics for Wars, Dictatorships and Genocides" 12215: 12137: 12036: 11665: 10832: 10734: 10672: 10050: 9560:

as well. The Syrian government is reportedly responsible for the majority of civilian casualties and

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Massacre of at least 50 Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb Army in the Rogatica Municipality on June 15, 1992.

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Mass killing of the locals; 4,000 to 5,000 civilians were executed, and many more reported tortured.

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Crimes against humanity; crime of genocide; crime of torture (torture, rape and murder of civilians)

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to repress an alleged "people's war." Numerous killings were committed by German forces including in

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on a mountain above the village of Tunam, South Korea, during one of the smaller engagements of the

21687: 21499: 21426: 21344: 21334: 21243: 20649:"Russia/Ukraine: ICC arrest warrants for senior Russian officials 'a crucial step towards justice'" 20074: 20018:"Turkey accused of war crimes after suspected white phosphorus use against civilian Kurds in Syria" 19665: 18901: 17617: 17223:

Summary of judgement: Milan Martić sentenced to 35 years for crimes against humanity and war crimes

16796:"Afghanistan – Protection of civilians in armed conflict midyear update: 1 January to 30 June 2021" 16765: 16725:

Inspector general of the Australian Defence Force - Afghanistan Inquiry Report. Released Nov 2020.

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Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United Nations: Exploring the Causes of Mass Killing Since 1945

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War crimes; crime of torture (Murder, cruel or degrading treatment and torture; summary execution)

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Blumenfeld, David; Hoomash, Carmit; Eaton, Alexandra; Throop, Noah; Reneau, Natalie (2023-10-15).

20668:"International Criminal Court issues war crimes arrest warrants for Russia's Shoigu and Gerasimov" 20110:"Armenia/Azerbaijan: Decapitation and war crimes in gruesome videos must be urgently investigated" 17565: 17552: 16568: 13681:"Decision of Juzgado Central de Instruccion No. 005, Audiencia Nacional, Madrid (16 October 2008)" 9661:

estimated in February 2017 "that between 5,000 and 13,000 people were extrajudicially executed at

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insurgents to collect and confine hundreds of male prisoners of Serb and non-Albanian ethnicity.

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that colonial authorities imposed on large areas of the country. Thousands suffered beatings and

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on June 18, 1950, of 700 to 900 doctors, nurses, inpatient civilians and wounded soldiers at the

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on 19 February 1937, thousands of Ethiopians were killed, including all of the monks residing at

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Russian soldiers indiscriminately fired banned cluster bombs in the centre of the city. 9 died.

10212:(ICC) issued arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Russia's Commissioner for Children's Rights 8139: 6913: 6901:

and 17 individuals are being tried by Croatian courts. Lovas was also one of the charges on the

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in 1968. And yet, the French Union's massacre of over two hundred Vietnamese women and children

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crew to kill the survivors of the German submarine while still at sea, including those who were

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Yugoslavia ruled that these killings constituted crimes against humanity and acts of genocide.

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for genocide by the ICTY; later Radovan Karadžić was sentenced to life imprisonment on appeal.

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During the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, widespread atrocities were committed against the

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In July 1950, during the early weeks of the Korean War, an undetermined number of South Korean

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civilians were killed by Albanian insurgents in the village of Klečka, and their remains were

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The massacre of 100–300 civilians in the village of Samashki by Russian paramilitary troops.

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Several key perpetrators of the genocide were assassinated by Armenian vigilantes as part of

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Several key perpetrators of the genocide were assassinated by Armenian vigilantes as part of

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Several key perpetrators of the genocide were assassinated by Armenian vigilantes as part of

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Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, February 2013,

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Army Terror Campaign Continues in Dacca; Evidence Military Faces Some Difficulties Elsewhere

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officers use automatic rifles on a convoy of refugees at a federal roadblock on the road to

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1997 (with a smaller peak in 1994), and were particularly concentrated in the areas between

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were discovered in and around Huế. North Vietnamese troops executed between 2,800 and 6,000

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Russian Army massacres from 650 up to a thousand civilians during the occupation of Bucha.

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Russian Army starts a siege of Mariupol, levelling the city to the ground. Targets include

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In 1980, Iraq invaded neighboring Iran, allegedly to capture Iraqi territory held by Iran.

5696: 5298: 5215: 5000: 4033:. Estimates of the death toll vary. According to Prof. Kim Dong-Choon, Commissioner of the 3986: 3581: 3563: 3398: 3320: 3111: 2877:. The massacre was reported to a newspaper by American citizens who were also on board the 2272: 1940: 1842: 1699: 1694: 1512: 1477: 1212: 1027: 885: 821: 675: 645: 222: 18639: 17737: 16419: 14238:"North Korea's Continued Detention of South Korean POWs since the Korean and Vietnam Wars" 13655: 12113: 11515:

Diaspora and Memory: Figures of Displacement in Contemporary Literature, Arts and Politics

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From Conquest to Genocide: Colonial Rule in German Southwest Africa and German East Africa

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From Conquest to Genocide: Colonial Rule in German Southwest Africa and German East Africa

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bragged on Television about ordering the assault, the videotape being used against him at

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of women, throwing prisoners out of aircraft to their death and running over others with

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Empire, Colony Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History

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homicides of at least two unarmed prisoners, allegations of widespread pattern of abuse

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Russian Army's reckless missile strikes against civilians in Vinnytsia. Dozens killed.

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War crimes, crimes against humanity, crime of genocide (murder of civilians; genocide)

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VC/PAVN forces murdered between 106,000 and 227,000 civilians between 1954 and 1975 in

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César Vidal puts the number of Republican victims at 110,965. In 2008 a Spanish judge,

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Pierre Journod, "La France, les États-Unis et la guerre du Vietnam: l'année 1968", in

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Anderson, David (2005). Histories of the Hanged. W.W. Norton & Company, pg. 119–80

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Detention camp (also referred to as a prison and concentration camp) near the city of

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on 12 February 1968 of 69 to 79 unarmed citizens in Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất village,

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Victims and Survivors: Displaced Persons and Other War Victims in Viet-Nam, 1954–1975

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People, Cattle and Land: Transformations of a Pastoral Society in Southwestern Africa

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stated that it had gathered evidence of war crimes and other violations committed by

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Cases before the International Criminal Court § Democratic Republic of the Congo

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helicopters perform repeated attack runs on a large numbers refugees trying to enter

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civilian casualties may have amounted to several thousand (between 5,000 and 7,000).

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Military Occupations in the Age of Self-Determination: The History Neocons Neglected

12828:"ERC exige que España pida perdón por el uso de armas químicas en la guerra del Rif" 12558: 11951:

Genocide at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century: Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Darfur

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and various other brutal acts which would've been a violation of the Geneva accords.

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Anderson, David (2005). Histories of the Hanged. W. W. Norton & Company, pg. 84

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22 January – 1 February 1993; invasion of territory under international protection

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War crimes, crimes against peace (attacks against parties not involved in the war)

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where a white commander reportedly gave the order to "kill every native they saw."

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were never formally prosecuted because investigations cleared them of all charges.

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Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: Ethnic and National Groups around the World

14860: 14523:"'고양 금정굴 민간인 학살사건' 유족에게 1억원 국가 배상 판결 "헌법에 보장된 기본권인 신체의 자유와 적법절차에 따라 재판받을 권리 등 침해"" 14522: 14215: 12664:"Bulgarian Crimes against Civilians in Occupied Serbia during the First World War" 12541:"Chapter 12. Statistics Of Russian Democide: Estimates, Calculations, And Sources" 11681: 10189:

On 21 April 2022, Satellite images showed mass graves around the besieged city of

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soldiers on March 12, 2006. It occurred in the family's house to the southwest of

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Serbian paramilitaries. Four convicted and sentenced to lengthy prison sentences.

7621:, were sentenced to life imprisonment and to 33 years imprisonment, respectively. 7532:

Crimes against humanity (3515 Bosniak and 186 Croat civilians killed and missing)

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to the massacres, some civilians had their tongues, lips, ears and noses severed.

22204: 22006: 21929: 21827: 21446: 21409: 21314: 20697:"Ukrainian court jails two Russian soldiers for 11 years for firing at civilians" 20684: 20630: 20472: 19972: 19352: 19059: 18690: 18626: 18528: 18005: 17831: 17545:[Srebrenica 1995 - Preliminary List of Missing and Killed in Srebrenica] 17543:"Srebrenica 1995 - Preliminarni Spisak Žrtava Genocida u Srebrenici 1995. Godine" 17524: 17436: 17336: 17296: 17177:. The Hague: International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. 31 May 2023 17135: 17089: 17042: 17013: 17009: 16984: 16941: 16685: 16595: 16575: 16542: 16531: 16432: 16400: 16379: 16368: 16267: 16218: 16199: 16106: 15411: 15400: 15247: 15187: 14944: 14928: 13841:"New documents reveal cover-up of 1948 British 'massacre' of villagers in Malaya" 13408: 13031: 13022: 12632: 11860: 10949: 10808: 10538: 10526: 10217: 9662: 9553: 9337: 9190: 9027: 8162: 8001: 7404: 7387: 7379:. Ademi acquitted, Bobetko died in the meantime, Norac sentenced to seven years. 7146: 6597: 6443: 6091: 5990: 5655: 5285: 5250:

imprisonment and he spent 17 years behind bars. On 21 June 2012, in the light of

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was a Pakistani soldier who was wounded and captured by Indian forces during the

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conducted by the third battalion of the 9th regiment of the 11th Division of the

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Czuperski, Maks; Itani, Faysal; Nimmo, Ben; Higgins, Eliot; Beals, Emma (2017).

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Voices from the Gulag: the Oppression of the German Minority in the Soviet Union

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Michail, Eugene (2017). "The Balkan Wars in Western Historiography, 1912–2012".

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Crimes against humanity according to ICTY. (2,000 civilians killed and missing)

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Perfidiously used suicide bombers disguised as television journalists to murder

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Sudanese authorities claim a death toll of roughly 19,500 civilians while many

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Croatian internment camp for Serb soldiers and civilians between 1992 and 1997

6985: 6882: 6623: 6578: 6484:); also may involve the use of poisons as weapons and crimes against humanity. 6451: 6431: 6427: 6253: 6197: 5900: 5770: 5738: 5636: 5632: 5610: 5420: 5416: 5338: 5242: 5068: 4690: 4524: 4364: 4340: 4272: 3894: 3361: 3218: 2791: 2699: 2581: 2389: 2353: 2320: 2280: 2276: 2265: 2249: 2234: 2120: 1868: 1292: 1252: 1230: 1217: 1207: 1177: 1089: 1042: 845: 836: 727: 680: 660: 650: 620: 587: 475: 432: 397: 372: 239: 172: 20884: 20494:"A mass grave site with 440 bodies was found in Izium, a police official said" 18877:"UN panel admits international failure in Vanni war, calls for investigations" 18091: 18061: 17289: 17138:

Priopćenje povodom obilježavanja 16. obljetnice pogibije 39 branitelja u Dalju

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Table 8.2 Pakistan Genocide in Bangladesh Estimates, Sources, and Calculations

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WEB OF DECEIT: BRITAIN'S REAL FOREIGN POLICY: BRITAIN'S REAL ROLE IN THE WORLD

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Malaysian Chinese & China: Conversion in Identity Consciousness, 1945–1957

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Lary, Diana (2015). China's Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Disorientations: Spanish Colonialism in Africa and the Performance of Identity

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Shelipov was shot by a Russian soldier on the instructions of several others.

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stated that "indiscriminate attacks on populated areas anywhere, including in

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Croatian Defence Council. Nine politicians and officers convicted, among them

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The execution of 17 Bosniak civilians from Višegrad on May 26, 1992, all men.

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War crimes (Killings of at least 677 civilians, 150–200,000 Serbian refugees)

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Nine of the victims were children. Some of the corpses were partially burned.

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throughout the CSR that would later be uncovered by the KMT and its allies."

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lost about 850,000 people during the war, a quarter of its pre-war population.

22239: 21955: 21514: 21393: 20962: 20505: 20410:"EU condemns Russian bombing of Mariupol maternity hospital as a 'war crime'" 20251:"Через артобстріл з боку РФ у Шосткинському районі загинуло шестеро лісників" 19484:"Assad 'dropped 13,000 illegal barrel bombs on Syria in 2016', watchdog says" 19221:"Syria: ISIL's brutality must not overshadow the crimes of the Syrian regime" 18742: 18501: 18276: 17588:"UN appeals court increases Radovan Karadzic's sentence to life imprisonment" 16616: 16048:"Army 'waterboarding victim' who spent 17 years in jail is cleared of murder" 15809: 15766: 15077: 14662: 13811: 13790: 13598: 13491: 13082: 11894:"Archbishop Lazër Mjeda: Report on the Serb Invasion of Kosova and Macedonia" 11579: 11532: 11012: 10545: 10426:

Russian Army missile strike at refugees trying to flee at a railway station.

10406:, including one site containing at least 440 bodies were found in woods near 10336: 10232: 10099: 9728:

warned that "crimes of historic proportions" were being committed in Aleppo.

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on the public promise of amnesty are killed and "disappeared" shortly after.

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6 September 1993; five men and two women, four shot dead; three burned alive

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has launched an investigation and has issued indictments against LRA leaders.

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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle Eastern and North African History

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Mao Zedong and China in the twentieth-century world : a concise history

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The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

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Herero heroes: a socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923

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The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah

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Talking American History: An Informal Narrative History of the United States

10909:

On 13 October, Israel directed over 1 million residents of northern Gaza to

10771:

260 people at the "Supernova Sukkot Gathering" music festival were murdered

5029:, which began on January 31, 1968, and lasted a total of 28 days, dozens of 4204:

between February 9, 1951, and February 11, 1951, on 719 unarmed citizens in

3118:, which involved pushing both sides of the tibia with the butts of two guns. 2476:

population in the rebelling regions. According to some sources 363 civilian

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Resolution 771, The First Report on the War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia

16956: 14886: 13901: 13897:"UK urged to accept responsibility for 1948 Batang Kali massacre in Malaya" 13097: 12983: 11111: 10463: 9638: 9407: 9000: 8932: 8557: 8297: 8281: 8151: 8054: 6833:

September 21, 1991; bodies buried in a mass grave in the village of Celija

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Crimes against humanity; forced sterilization; genocide; ethnic cleansing;

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The FLN also indulged in a large amount of atrocities, both against French

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Mass detention and torture of Syrian civilians and political prisoners in

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100,000 refugees living in remote disease ridden areas to avoid both sides

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JNA and Montenegrin territorial forces. Several JNA commanders sentenced.

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Serb-led JNA (special JNA unit from Niš), TO forces, rebel Serbs militia.

6462:, and many villages belonging to these ethnic groups were also destroyed. 6442:. The campaign also targeted other minority communities in Iraq including 6278: