0 a crime committed during a war that breaks the accepted international rules of war: --
1 an act, such as harming prisoners or children, that is against the agreed international rules of war --
There can be no reconciliation until war crime suspects are held accountable in a court of law.
One of the issues mentioned in the document is war crime trials.
There is no statutory definition of what constitutes a war crime.
The key issue in most war crime trials will be identification.
There are those who say that it was not a war crime because it was done under orders.
One does not deal with a war criminal by committing a war crime.
Apart from those gentlemen, anyone else can be prosecuted at any time for a war crime wherever committed.
I appreciate the difficulty of treating as a war crime something that was done before any war had broken out at all.
