Sentences with phrase «own war crimes»

Amnesty International says that in previous campaigns, the Shi'ite militias have committed «serious human rights violations, including war crimes» against civilians fleeing Islamic State - held territory.

The International Criminal Court has said US forces may have committed war crimes in Afghanistan through the «cruel or violent» interrogation of detainees, mostly from 2003 to 2004.

He resisted taking Trump seriously for months, but in February he delivered a blistering 20 - minute takedown covering everything from Trump's business failures and his call for killing terrorist family members («That is the front runner for the Republican nomination advocating a war crime!»)

Importantly, the Senate report apparently also recommends no prosecution for these war crimes.

«It should not be hard to say that Vladimir Putin's military has conducted war crimes in Aleppo,» Rubio said.

Dutch prosecutors have revealed that Slobodan Praljak died of a heart attack after drinking cyanide as his conviction and sentence for war crimes was affirmed by the the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, on Wednesday.

Praljak was convicted of crimes against humanity and war crimes in 2013 and sentenced to 20 years in prison, nearly half of which had already been served after he surrendered to the tribunal in 2004.

That meant less knowledge about a potential war crime and its aftermath.

A dumb A.I. might cause a war crime or crash the stock market, but an artificial super-intelligence could end civilization.

Netanyahu said, «Hamas commits a double war crime when it deliberately attempts to strike at Israeli citizens and uses Gaza's civil population as a human shield.

Russian lawmakers have warned the United States that Moscow would view an airstrike on Syria as a war crime, saying it could trigger a direct military clash between the two former Cold War adversaries.

International Trump says launching «largest - ever» package of sanctions against North Korea, Reuters UN identifies South Sudan military officers accused of war crimes, The Guardian

In part as a result of their activism, Taylor resigned and was later convicted of war crimes; he is now serving a 50 - year prison sentence.

The judge, Richard Goldstone, authored a United Nations report on the 2008 - 2009 war in Gaza that accused both Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes.

Though some analysts cite evidence that indictments from the ICTY deterred war crimes in Yugoslavia, such claims are vastly overshadowed by the Serb massacre of some eight thousand Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in July 1995, with the Hague sulking in the north.

The ICC is the International Criminal Court, created in 1998 to prosecute perpetrators of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

Just in the past weeks, hundreds of people have died in airstrikes and offensives that have leaders prepared to accuse Assad's government of war crimes.

Google «Pat Robertson Rios Montt» to see his relationship with this Guatemalian ex-leader convicted of war crimes and genocide against the Mayans.

ALL Republicans are guilty of war crimes?

Our «leaders» blithely ply domestic audiences with totally unsupported and scurrilous accusations of Russian war crimes, and brag of standing up to Russia.

(no [war crimes) There is no instance (even without law or overt moral codes) when one individual can inflict great injury or death upon another without moral and communal consequences.

But these and other concessions were not enough to dispel Washington's fears that if American troops commit war crimes in another country, that country could have those troops tried in The Hague (unless the U.S. would agree to investigate the case itself).

It will hear cases of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity that national governments are unable or unwilling to prosecute.

The claim that the UN resolutions suffice to assure «just authority» is belied by destruction in Iraq unrelated to freeing Kuwait (bridges, roads, municipal water and sewage systems) and by restatements of war aims (asking Iraqis to replace Saddam Hussein, demanding unconditional surrender and a war crimes trial) which go far beyond the UN objective (note as well the elements of bad faith in the UN appeal to which Geyer pointed).

Treaties now allow states to prosecute genocide, torture and serious war crimes — all within ICC jurisdiction — wherever they are committed.

The doctrine can (theoretically) have teeth at several points: refusal to obey an unjust order, «selective conscientious objection» when called to serve an unjust cause, suing for peace when one can not win without using unjust means, prosecuting a war crime.

Johnson focuses on four aspects of contemporary armed conflict that, while not unprecedented, have become special concerns: the legitimacy of intervention, the place of noncombatants, the significance of cultural differences, and procedures for dealing with war crimes and achieving reconciliation after conflict.

Would a universal regime of war crimes trials bring standards of justice to bear on past conflicts?

Margaret Tutwiler informed us that when the President had told conservative Protestant broadcasters that the U.S. wanted unconditional surrender and a war crimes trial, he was expressing his emotions, not policy; that when Secretary of State James Baker and his Soviet colleague Alexander Bessmertnykh said that the coalition would accept a cease - fire and would promise a regional peace conference, that was inoperative because it had not been checked.

Both, by the way, are considered war crimes if not crimes against humanity by the UN.

The chief of human rights at the U.N. said, «If established as deliberate in a court of law, an airstrike on a hospital may amount to a war crime.»

In a statement, they said that the airstrike constitutes a war crime: «Under the clear presumption that a war crime has been committed, [Doctors Without Borders] demands that a full and transparent investigation into the event be conducted by an independent international body.»

That's probably why him and Cheney have international arrest warrants out for their arrest for war crimes, and they can't leave the US.

One of the lawyers who prosecuted the Nazis in the war crimes trials explained how people could have acted so savagely: «There is only one step to take.

It's funny how they defined terrorism to ignore their own war crimes.

As one whose professional career has focused on the development and restraints on the initiation of war and the conduct of war, and one who, moreover, holds the deepest moral justification for use of armed force in the service of justice, I clearly belong among the constituency supporting war crimes proceedings.

In this instance, we need to be reminded of the War Crimes Trial in Nuremberg known as «The Medical Case.»

They supported war crimes in Yugoslavia against Serbs and Communists.

In Judgment at Nuremberg, a German judge, Burt Lancaster, is on trial for war crimes.

«following the scripture» The Christian equivelent of using the «I was just following orders» defence at a war crimes trial.

The ICC, based in The Hague, tries cases of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide when a country's own courts fail to prosecute.

Meanwhile, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted last week to pass two resolutions: one calling for support of the creation of an international war crimes tribunal to prosecute those involved in Syria, and the other calling the crimes perpetrated by ISIS against Christians and other minorities there «war crimes,» «crimes against humanity,» and «genocide.»

Federal authorities are moving to extradite Johann (John) Breyer, an 89 - year - old U.S. citizen, who is wanted in Germany for war crimes committed during World War II.

He documents the Vatican's early denunciations of Nazi war crimes and the reprisals they provoked, together with Pius» active support for Jews and the anti-Nazi resistance.

At the end of the Second World War the Nuremberg trials for those guilty of war crimes highlighted the point that it was not acceptable to justify one's actions by claiming you were following orders or laws.

Update (Mar. 15): The US House of Representatives has unanimously voted 393 — 0 to declare the actions of ISIS against Middle Eastern Christians (and other minorities) officially «war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.»

The State Department» s new office for war crimes is also looking into it.

A state that was «truly founded upon the principles of atheism would be the greatest place on earth; a place of reason, compassion, logic, knowledge and beauty, where each fellow knew his and her fellows as people to be cherished, not chastised and shackled into conformity through propaganda and war crimes.»

They fear Obama because he is smart enough to prosecute the Bush Adm. for War Crimes and every infraction beneath that horrible charge, including the second occurrence of «Super Grand Larceny - on - Steroids» the first occurrence, the state of Texas Savings and Loan fell victim.

This summer, when some 120 nations voted to establish a permanent international criminal court for genocide war crimes and crimes against humanity, the U.S. found itself one of only seven countries, including such bedfellows as China and the Sudan, to vote against the new court.