War Crime

  • War crime, in international law, is a serious violation of the laws or customs of war as defined by international customary law and international treaties.
  • The first systematic attempt to define a broad range of war crimes was the Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field also known as the “Lieber Code” (after its main author, Francis Lieber) which was issued by the U.S. President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War and distributed among Union military personnel in ....
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