Talk:List of war crimes/Archive 2

1907 & Africa
Why does this article start at 1907 ?? It completely eliminates the invasion of North / South America and all the massacres, genocides.. There is very little mention of African war crimes too ... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.99.6.117 (talk) 12:34, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Delete it?
Upon further reading of this article, it seems that it's ripe to be deleted. Probably one of the most "uncyclopedic" articles on Wikipedia: few citations, blatant editorializing, no logical criteria - the list goes on. Is there a formal nomination process? How does deletion work? This whole thing might be ameliorated by changing the title to something like "Horrible shit that's happened in the past 100 years," but that's not really material for an encyclopedia either. The editors seem to be examining a multitude of complex historical cases and, with their limited expertise, deciding which ones fit the legal definition of "war crime" as established by the Hague. Ummm... isn't that what the judges at the Hague pretty much do? We should email this list to them, I'm sure they'll be relieved to know that if they ever need to take a sick day, we've got them covered. I vote for DELETE IT. Kachol (talk) 03:53, 4 July 2008 (UTC)


 * If you want to delete it you can nominate it for deletion here. Tatarian (talk) 00:43, 30 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I fully agree with Kachol, and I will propose the deletion of this "article". Maybe this serves to find somebody who is willing to convert the text into an encyclopedia article, or if not, and if it disappears the loss is not very big either.  I'm not as eloquent as Kachol is, and he already gave all important arguments, primarily the quality of the contributions, often motivated by political (national) interests??
 * I don't know how to fix this article. Maybe giving a clear definition what should be listed would do (crimes prosecuted by an international court??  there's an interesting discussion below regarding 'crimes against peace', 'against humanity' and so forth).  One should also ask for the aim of having such a list.  If I know what event I'm looking for, I do not need it.  If I'm interested in a list of war crimes in general, I think it is in some instances so specific that it gives no overview of the general situation, while events of large magnitude only have a single sentence (e.g. Cambodia).  To me this looks mostly like an internet forum for nationalists blaming each other that the others were criminals while the own country only committed minor offenses.  Best KlausN   26 February 2009   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.2.152.50 (talk) 20:40, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

I fully disagree. This is actually a good article. The loss loses an essential catalog. It might make a lot more sense, however, to convert it to a collection of pointers to articles on major alleged war crimes, each case of which generally has its own article anyway. 67.241.20.26 (talk) 17:50, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Israel, Lebanon War
What's the deal with this entry? Vague claim, no citation, impact on the topic unclear. There's something about a complaint by the UN, and diplomatic tensions arising. Not sure what either of these have to do with war crimes, or whether they're even true. Anyone object to deleting this? Kachol (talk) 03:42, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

This page is filled with uncited claims and POV, emotionally charged language. Almost everything after the 2nd world war should be rewritten --Heatsketch (talk) 21:42, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Where the hell is the first world war??
Why isn't it included in this article? −−84.129.167.183 (talk) 15:08, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

KGB and Katyń?
Well, KGB didn't exist in 1939, so how come it is stated as responsible for Katyń Massacre? I think it was NKVD. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.87.104.117 (talk) 13:58, 14 April 2007 (UTC).


 * Corrected.--Caranorn 16:42, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Dachau
Were members SS-Totenkopfverbände POWs or rather arrested criminals?Xx236 11:06, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Not sure what you are referring to, but I'd think POW, at least until they were put on trial individually.--Caranorn 12:02, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes Heinrick Himmler was classed as a POW untill identified, then only a criminal when he was to be charged. Enlil Ninlil 05:05, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Atomic bombing of Japan

 * see /Archive 1

How come the atomic bombing of Japan is not list as war crime. The bombings were targeting civilians. ClaudioMB 06:28, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes I would say it must be there as this would be classed as a war crime, even then. Enlil Ninlil 06:34, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree, they should be included. Emiwee 23:09, 13 May 2007 (UTC)


 * What was the specific war crime that was broken when the A-bomb was dropped? --Philip Baird Shearer 13:16, 15 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Directing attacks against civilians as part of an international conflict (See War Crime, Definition) ClaudioMB 06:37, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Also take a look at the "Laws of War :

Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague IV); October 18, 1907", SECTION II, CHAPTER I. ClaudioMB 07:14, 16 May 2007 (UTC)


 * That is your interpretation, but it is not generally accepted for see Aerial area bombardment and international law. The best source for the "it was a war cime" is the Japanese judicial review of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks Ryuichi Shimoda et al. v. The State. The judges made a case for the attacks being outside the laws of war BUT basing their arguments on the 1923 Draft Hague Rules of Air Warfare while ignoring the later Draft Convention for the Protection of Civilian Populations Against New Engines of War, Amsterdam, 1938 (where a defended city was defined) draws into question the usefulness of the judgement, which is not widly quoted as a precedent under interntional law (for example AFAICT the 1996 ICJ advisory opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons did not quote its findings as a precedent). --Philip Baird Shearer 10:33, 16 May 2007 (UTC)


 * According to Article Five of the convention you cite, when military targets "are so situated that they cannot be bombarded without the indiscriminate bombardment of the civilian population, the aircraft must abstain from bombardment." Clearly this prohibition applies to the nuclear attacks; also, this applies only if there are legitimate military targets, which is certainly questionable in the cases of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. If no such targets existed, any attack - much less one that incinerated tens of thousands of civilians (at least) - would be prohibited. Please advise as to pre-existing legal conventions that allow for attacking military targets indistinguishable from civilian populations. --Caz3773 9:13, 22 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Both draft treaties were not positive international law, they are only indicative of the the way international lawyers were thinking at that time, further because there was no positive international law in this area, the concepts of military necessity, distinction and proportionality as existed in 1945 come into play. As I said there is a section specifically on the lack of law in (aerial area bombardment and international law). There is also an bullet point entry in Allied war crimes which might be suitable for this article. --Philip Baird Shearer 19:13, 23 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Sorry I missed you question "Please advise as to pre-existing legal conventions that allow for attacking military targets indistinguishable from civilian populations.". International humaniterian law does not work that way, IHL trys to remove the worst excesses of war throught outlawing certain actions throught treaties known as "positive international law". So the question needs to be rephrased "Please advise as to pre-existing legal conventions that disallow for attacking military targets indistinguishable from civilian populations." As  Guisández Gómez writes "In examining [Anti-city strategy/blitz] in the light of international humanitarian law, it should be borne in mind that during the Second World War there was no agreement, treaty, convention or any other instrument governing the protection of the civilian population or civilian property, as the Conventions then in force dealt only with the protection of the wounded and the sick on the battlefield and in naval warfare, hospital ships, the laws and customs of war and the protection of prisoners of war." See also Ryuichi Shimoda et al. v. The State: "While indiscriminate bombing of a defended city or a defended area is permissible, in regard to an undefended city or an undefended area only bombardment directed at combatants and military installations (military objectives) and not against non-combatants and non-military installations (non-military objectives) is permissible." Also Frederick Taylor Dresden Tuesday 13 February 1945; Page 117 "Coventry ... was therefore, in terms of what little law existed on the subject, a legitimate target for aerial bombing". --Philip Baird Shearer 12:45, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Having been to Hiroshima I can assure anyone in any doubt that it was indeed a terrible war crime. Whether it was illegal or not is a moot point. Had Japan won the war does anyone think that the Americans would not have been held responsible? Extermination of the Jews was legal under German law! Denial that this was a war crime is just the worst example of victor's justice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.25.182.135 (talk) 20:39, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

If I interpret correctly what others have already tried to explain is that these bombings are not considered war crimes because there was no specific international law against nuclear bombs, because, well... no such bomb was ever used before them (excluding of course experimental detonations, which were done in secret); I see the same chain of thought in the case of the terror bombings discussed below. But I understand there were laws in effect against harming civilians (correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not a 100% on this). So if somebody came up with a new weapon, let's say one capable of dealing more damage than a nuclear explosion, in time of war he would be free to use it because there cannot be specific laws against a weapon if its existence is unknown to any committee which could make such laws. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnenglish3 (talk • contribs) 15:29, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Tokyo, Hamburg, Dresden, etc?
As with the above debate regarding Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I see little to distinguish indiscriminate and massive aerial bombing of civilian populations with conventional weapons (which probably killed more in Tokyo than the atomic weapon at Hiroshima) from other war crimes mentioned here. In the case of U.S. bombings of Japan, the record of planning and calculation on the part of Curtis LeMay and his staff to maximize civilian losses in both life and property is plentiful. --Caz3773 9:21, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * This whole 'nuclear bombing as war crime' argument does not really have any merit, at least not if you follow the laws of the day. I mean for goodness sake, most of the major cities of Europe where bombed and/or fire-bombed during WW2. In this day and age, those aerial bombardments would be considered war crimes, but they were not at the time.--76.104.136.71 00:06, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually under the Geneva conventions 1925, Articles 46, 50, 52, and 56 of The Hague Convention of 1907, all destruction of buildings and deliberate killing of civilians was a crime, but as both sides are guilty, a prosecution by the victor of the defeated would not look really good for the U.S and its allies, so none took place, like the unlimited submarine warfare which wasnt prosecuted because of this. Enlil Ninlil 05:13, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Geneva 1925 was a "protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare" Nothing specifically to do with aerial bombardment. International Court of Justice (ICJ) gave an advisory opinion on the "legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons". This made it clear, in paragraphs 54, 55 and 56, that international law on poisonous weapons, – the Second Hague Declaration of 29 July 1899,Hague Convention IV of 18 October 1907 and the Geneva Protocol of 17 June 1925 – did not cover nuclear weapons, because their prime or exclusive use was not to poison or asphyxiate. I persume when you say Hague that you mean "Hague IV - The Laws and Customs of War on Land". In which case the articles you have mentioned are to do with the treatment of occupied territory (Article 42: Territory is considered occupied when it is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army), not enemy territory under enemy control. See Aerial area bombardment and international law for an analyis of international law and aerial bombardment during World War II --Philip Baird Shearer 23:29, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Also Karl Dönitz was tried for "unlimited submarine warfare" because it broke positive international law (1936 Naval Protocol). He was found guilty of breaches to international law by initiating unrestricted submarine warfare, but he received no additional time in prison for this crime as the court was presented with evidence that the UK and the US issued similar orders. There is a book just published (Patrick Bishop "Bomber Boys: Fighting back 1940-45") that apparently examines the reasons why Hugo Sperrle was not tried for war crimes for his part in the the Blitz which might indicate if it was primarily legal decision (no positive international law) or a political one (Don't want Bomber Harris and Curtis LeMay on trial). --Philip Baird Shearer 10:20, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

How was this a war crime when the vast majority of Japanese citizens were prepared to fight the Allied landings to the death? Is it a war crime to bomb soldiers before they are fully trained?

They would have been shot while attacking Allied troops anyway, and those not shot would have killed themselves. - Sum guy

Funny Argument. So I can go and kill all the Babys in an enimy country. Some day they will be soldiers, or will have baybies that could be Soldiers! Great!--WerWil 00:04, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Stupid comment, theres a clear difference between killing babies and killing people who are planning on killing you. Ps, you cant spell.

If Terror bombing is not a war crime, then war crime is just a legal nicety reserved for use by the victors. The attack on Dresden and use of napalm on Japanese cities are perfect examples of terror bombing. --jwalling (talk) 07:48, 29 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I completely agree with Jwalling! Terror bombing with the main objective of causing civilian casualties is definitely a war crime, Dresden is a good example. --(Eurystheus) 04:32, 28 June 2011 (EST)

"Alleged" crimes in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Dragon of Bosnia, why have you done this, with coment "also alleged war crimes with no verification in court record, nor precise information about perpetators"? What does that mean? If somebody commited the crime, but noone was processed for that in front of the tribunals, than "it's not verified"? ICTY is established for processing of war crimes. Don't mix things. A person is innocent untill proven guilty, but war crime is always a war crime. Kubura 13:26, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Of course, and it means that Ivica Mlivoncic's testimony (you quote him) was discarded as irrelevant by ICTY. You have to show me court validation, if the war crime is a war crime. This is still encyclopedia not forum. The Dragon of Bosnia 13:54, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * For instance, you wrote that Dusina massacre was Killing of 10 Croat civilians by Bosnian Muslim and mujahedeen forces, which is false. The court concluded that not even one Croat civilian was killed, but a Serb one. It was also place of battle, not site of massacre as presented by Ivica Mlivoncic in his book which was discarded in ICTY. For instance in his book he even used Bosniaks killed in Doljani and Sovići on April 18, 1993 and presented them as Croat civilians?! The Dragon of Bosnia 13:54, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * ICTY also said that there was no genocide in Srebrenica, wright? And you agree with that? Like here (your comment was "Srebrenica Genocide Stone - To remember genocide")? You deny the victims of war crimes of other peoples, but you're pushing other games about ICTY here, when your people is concerned. Many disagree with many things of ICTY's work, but it's an UN organisation, and we have to respect it. Drugiman tiraš mak na konac sa igraman riči i pravnin p*jama, izmotavaš stvari na razne načine, a kad se radi o tvomen narodu, onda nima veze šta je ICTY reka za Srebrenicu? That's not OK. Ne omalovažavaj tuđu tragediju. Nije to u redu. Kubura 14:39, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * What? You are wrong. In three case, Srebrenica massacre was defined as genocide (Krstić case, Blagojević case - ICTY, and ICJ case Bosni v Sebia). I don't deny anything, I just want that you verify the thesis (which are 90% discarded by ICTY) read Verifiability. It says: Anyone can create a website or pay to have a book published, then claim to be an expert in a certain field. For that reason, self-published books, personal websites, and blogs are largely not acceptable as sources. Such is a case with the book by I.M. The Dragon of Bosnia 15:09, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Then what they were telling on the Bosnian FTV, when commenting the verdict? About the world without justice? Kubura 08:14, 17 August 2007 (UTC)


 *  You're wright, Dragon. . ICTY said it was genocide in Srebrenica, but also said that Serbia wasn't guilty for that . My sarcastical comparison was supposed to be pointed out towards that ICTY's proclaiming someone "not guilty" in Srebrenica case, not towards denying of genocide in Srebrenica (I never wanted to deny it). I completely disagree with that ICTY's releasing of guilt; note my message "Thousands of Bos. Muslims killed, and not a genocide? Well, ICTY said it's not." (one more apology, to avoid misunderstandings: missing "s" for plural in "Thousand of ..." was a typo; it should stay "thousands" - I've corrected it now). I wanted to compare that decision in Srebrenica case (thousands of persons) with the decision regarding cases of killed Bos. Croat civilians and POW's (tens of persons by massacre), to show that theirs decisions aren't the most perfect ones. Unfortunately, I was faster typer here, and I wrote incorrect information. My apologies to you and to all others. They were unintentional. I'll post this on your user talkpage also. Kubura 11:31, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

You've removed following lines, so here I provide you some links: Maljine and Bikoši massacre. JUSTWATCH-L archives -- May 2004 (#916) from ICTY's Sense News Agency. "UNHCR investigated the crime in Maljine". A former field officer of the UN Center for Human Rights (UNCHR) who had been gathering information about a mass execution of Croat prisoners near the village of Maljine testifies that the deputy commander of the BH Army 3rd Corps refused to facilitate his visit to the crime scene, rejecting the possibility that such a crime had occurred. '''Are you the one that disrupt UNHCR's reports? '''


 * So where is the court validation? First of all you don't even use correct terms. You said Muslim army "Army of BH" which is incorrect term. Bosnian Army was the only legal army in Bosnia, recognized by UN. Your POV is your POV, but without verification. The Dragon of Bosnia 13:54, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Bos. Muslim forces (Armija BiH) the only legal army in BiH? You're messing up things, but, leave that discussion for other talkpages. Be thankful to "illegal" HVO and Bosnian-Herzegovina Croats, that first organized the defense of Bosnia. Kubura 14:18, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * You can call it Alien army if you like, but by the international law it was the only legal army in Bosnia. Yes, HVO was illegal by decision of Bosnian Supreme Court (it was in Blaskic verdict conclusion). You have to learn what is POV and what is relaible.

Trusina massacre, Buhine Kuće massacre, Maljine and Bikoši. Article in BH Dani Dusina, Buhine Kuće, Maline from August 10, 2001. Article in Bosniac language, by Bos. Muslim authors.


 * Again, there are so many newspaper reports, and those are not reliable sources, for instance, I can write tens of articles based on newspaper reports about war crimes comitted by Croats in Croatia on Serb civilians, in Osijek, even Vukovar, Dalmacija etc. But that is not the way encyclopedia works. The Dragon of Bosnia 13:54, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I've mentioned Voice of America, not some junk-newspaper. Regarding events in Croatia... Mentioning of things from Croatia won't wash you up. You won't draw me away from writing articles about true events, where some members of Bos. Muslims armed forces (including mujahedins) commited war crimes over Croat civilians and POW's. Kubura 14:18, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * And you didn't even read it. Even in your source, there is no verification for your claims. Not even one Croat civilian was killed, just a Serb one which is stated in the court decision. The Dragon of Bosnia 14:32, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Here's also the Voice of America article, in Croatian. U Hagu svjedočio preživjeli iz sela Dusina, from 2004-03-09. is this enough? Do you think that I'm making up things? I intentionally gave you no Croat source, neither from Croatia, neither from Bosnia and Herzegovina, nor from any other Croat media in the world. And there's a bunch of material in Croatian language. Kubura 13:26, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Did you read the conclusion about Dusina. As I said, there was no Croat civilian killed there. The Dragon of Bosnia 13:54, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Does that mean that someone can torture and kill POW's like pigs and get away with it? Come on. Torturing and killing of POW's is also a war crime. ICTY is interested in those cases also. Kubura 14:18, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * It is not at all about what people can or cannot do. It is about validation. I gave you example of Ivica Mlivoncic and the book that you use, in that book he wrote that in Sovici, on April 18, 1993 two Croats were killed by "Muslimanske postrojbe". But according to ICTY source:, "Herceg-Bosna/HVO forces set about a broad campaign of persecutions, military actions, arrests and expulsions to enforce their demands, with more than thirty attacks on Muslim towns and villages on 16-18 April 1993, including the attacks and atrocities in Ahmici on 16 April, in Sovici and Doljani on 17 April, and in Parcani, Lizoperci and Toscanica on 17-19 April. In the following days, between approximately 18 April and 23 April 1993, other Bosnian Muslim men were either captured by the Herceg-Bosna/HVO forces or surrendered. The HVO took a number of these men to the HVO headquarters located at a fish farm near Doljani. There, the Herceg-Bosna/HVO forces mistreated, abused, interrogated and tortured the men. The HVO executed some of the Muslim detainees". But Ivica in his book misused this and presented as Croats were victims. That's why his book and testimony was discarded in Blaskic case. Place of battle, soldiers that were killed in battle are also misused by book you quote and presented as civilians killed in massacre?! That is the reason why Halilovic, Delalic were released unlike Croats who were convicted of crimes against humanity. The Dragon of Bosnia 14:32, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Trusina massacre. Here's a link from the site of Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina. OHR BiH Media Round-up, 23-4-2006. Under section "war crimes". There're also pointing to media in Bosnia: RHB, BHT1, TV Hayat, FTV, RTRS, Oslobodjenje, Dnevni avaz. You've seen those newspapers or seen those TV stations. Don't behave like you don't know anything. Is that so hard to type the placename and see English texts? Kubura 13:33, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * As I said, this is the article about war crimes. You have first to distinguish law terms, as murder from war crime. I am a law student, so I know the difference. The Dragon of Bosnia 13:54, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Oh, now even the official site of the Governing body of BiH isn't good? You're POV-ing. Respect your legal organizations. What do you think, that OHR has no Legal affairs office, lawyers, judges etc.? Wikipedia is not a place to fight and argue with governing bodies. Otherwise, you're making "original research", posting "personal points of view" etc.. Kubura 14:18, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * "Governin body" is body consisted of politicians, not judges. The Dragon of Bosnia

Kazagići massacre. For now, here're links in Croatian. Zločin s pečatom and from newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija Okrutni mudžahedini. In fact, there whole feuilleton about the crimes commited by some soldiers of Bos. Muslim forces (Armija BiH). Also The ABiH Probing Attack, January, 1993. In English. Kubura 13:48, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I was just telling you above about that book. It is Ivica Mlivocnic book, which was discarded in ICTY as irrelevant based on propaganda. You can read even his own reaction, his complaints, he thinks that the whole world is against Croats. His book is based on propaganda. Read my comments above. The Dragon of Bosnia 14:07, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

I can get how could you remove these lines: Uzdol massacre and Grabovica massacre? ICTY links. Prosecutor v. Sefer Halilović. Session Tuesday, 15 July 2003. ICTY's Sense News Agency from 02.10.2006. (related to the crimes against Croat civilians in the villages of Grabovica and Uzdol). Trial Watch Sefer Halilovic. Kubura 14:00, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * As you probably read the verdict, Halilovic was found innocent as well as Army of BH as an institution. Those two were not massacres committed by Army as you wrote, or ordered by Army as you presented there, but murders committed by group of criminals (Caco Topalovic and his men who were prosecuted by Sarajevo court during the war) who were killed later by Army of BH, because they didn't want to surrender. The Dragon of Bosnia 14:07, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Then correct the text lines regarding perpetrators. Or, is ICTY going to be smarter 10 years later, like UN and world organisations were with Srebrenica case? However, whatever you do, cover it with ICTY references, and don't distort it. Group of criminals also do war crimes. Kubura 14:39, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * If you continue to write about alleged war crimes, which have no court (not just international, but also local ones) validation, I will start to write articles using your method, based on newspaper articles (Glas srpski, Politika), about war crimes committed by Croats on Serb civilians in Croatia, just to show you that this aproach doesn't have a sense in encyclopedia. The Dragon of Bosnia 14:07, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Dragon, court deals with persons, not with the events. Maybe they can't find the very perpetrators, but they know the term "unknown perpetrator". Kubura 14:39, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * You are wrong. The court first dealas with events and then try to connect accused person with those events. The Dragon of Bosnia 14:45, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * You'll write articles about war crimes committed by Croats against Serb civilians? Don't worry, someone already did that. The only thing, that worries me, is that you're siding with Serbs... just like Bos.Muslim leadership did in 1993. Srebrenica encircled, Sarajevo encircled by Bos. Serbs, but instead of relieving those cities, Bos.Muslims stab a knife at the back of their allies, Bos. Croats, and launch a whole offensive against Bos.Croats ("Neretva '93", isn't it).Kubura 14:39, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * That is your problem. You don't understand what is Wikipedia. It is not place of war, but place of information, and relaible one, because it is encyclopedia. Regarding Neretva 93, obviously you know nothing about Bosniak Croat war. Read some verdicts, and you will educate yourself, it is not conspiracy against Croats as Ivica Mlivoncic said, but very good material. The Dragon of Bosnia 14:45, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Remember that when you write the article about Srebrenica. Thousands of Bos. Muslims killed, and not a genocide? Well, ICTY said it's not. Whenever you cite ICTY, when denying war crimes committed against Croats, have previous ICTY's decision in mind. Have in mind how do you feel about that and how others feel. We don't need any edit-war, I'm pointing you towards resolving any disputes. Kubura 15:16, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * You didn't read my above comment. In three case, Srebrenica massacre was defined as genocide (Krstić case, Blagojević case - ICTY, and ICJ case Bosni v Sebia). I don't know what are you talking about. Of course we don't need edit-war, we just need WP:RS source for validation. I showed you that Ivica Mlivoncic book is full of false information, concluded by ICTY. The Dragon of Bosnia 15:20, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Type of the crime

 * Also, if you want to write about the crimes, you have to give two important detailes, such as a type of crime (this is established in the trail eg crimes against humanity, genocide etc, "killing of civilians" is not a type of crime according to law terms), and give information about victims and perpatrators (also established in the court). The Dragon of Bosnia 14:13, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

No problems, I use ICTY terminology. Using the ICTY links is the only way to make it here. Kubura 14:39, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * To use that terminology you have to present verdicts. For instance when you say smth is genocide, you have to show the verdict to verify that, not just to say that. Anyone can do that, that is silly. The Dragon of Bosnia 14:45, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

I did it. I had to do it. Whenever someone questions me, I present him the ICTY indictments (these are "heavier" argument, when accused is proven guilty) and judgements. And I cite the "interesting" parts. That's the only way to end the discussion and kick the trolls and vandals away. Don't worry, when the articles about those crimes came on the agenda, I'll  have to  "cover" the written text with arguments. Kubura 15:09, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * You also have to distinguish terms as indictment from verdict. Verdict is WP:RS (reliable source), not indictment, but indictment can also be useful to understand the wider context of the events. There is no need for fabrications because, it can just heart the real victims, as in Sovići and Doljani case. As you probably know, the only convicted journalists befor ICTY are from Slobodna Dalmacija, eg Domagoj Margetić who used the same fabrication tactics. The Dragon of Bosnia 15:17, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I will be glad to include ICTY conclusions from Prlic et al case which is not finished yet, and then we will finally see, who was right, prosecution or the defence. So it is best that we wait for a few month and we will have all the information in the verdict. That is the reason, I didn't write anything about Vrbanja massacre, Mokronoge massacre, Gornji Vakuf massacres (Duša, Uzričje, Hrasnica and Ždrimci), Maljen massacre, Raštani, Mostar Destruction, Počitelj Destruction, Prozor, Stolac massacres, Šunje and Gabela, Ljubuški massacre, Čapljina, (Paško Ljubičić case for Busovača and Kresevo which is not finished yet). The Dragon of Bosnia 15:26, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
 * The Defence also presented their arguments about other incidents, so the court will decide which is relaible, and which is not. I will respect any court decision. Because I respect Wikipedia as a good project. The Dragon of Bosnia 15:27, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Regards all of this... don't make mockery of Wikipedia. Use only verifiable sources. That means ICTY. --HarisM 20:36, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

I reverted my edits, but I left two cases for which Sefer Halilovic is indicted at ICTY. I hope noone make problems with this (?). This is varibiable. Right? --Ante Perkovic 13:23, 16 August 2007 (UTC)


 * No it is not. First, you wrote that the perpetrators were: Bosnian Muslim forces ("Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina") and mujahedins, which is false. Btw, what does quotation marks mean? I understand that you maybe don't like Bosnian Army, but it was the only legal Army in Bosnia, recognized by UN. You cannot write propaganda here as you write it in hr Wikipedia (like Kubura based on "Zlocin s pecatom" book by Ivica Mlivoncic who testified in Blaskic case, and his testimony was found irrelevant), there are certain rules to be followed. According to ICTY Sefer and Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina was found not guilty. Regarding "mujahedins" they were not in the operation at all (I know it is interesting know in this global anti terror war, but I prefer the truth). The court concluded that the incident was not planned and committed by the Army, but multiple murders were committed by local criminals and soldiers after the operation. Also, in the law you have to distinguish the type of war crimes from murder, those are not the same at all according to international law. Regarding Uzdol, again you wrote false information. Uzdol was place of battle between Army and HVO. During the battle many HVO soldiers died, as well as Army soldiers. During the fight some civilians died also. And again according to ICTY, Sefer was found not guilty, so perpetrators as you wrote were not: Bosnian Muslim forces ("Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina") and mujahedins (this story was interesting when Tudjman controled the media when he was fighting against "Muslim savages" trying to justify ethnic cleansing and creation of Herzeg Bosnia and camps in Herzegovina but he is dead now). Also, you presented that all casualties including dead soldiers during the fight were executed in massacre which is not true. The number of casulaties is not true too, and the most important part. You have to write the type of the crime because this article lists the crimes which have the court verification ("Murder of civilians" is not the type of crime, it is genocide, crime against peace, crime against humanity, you need the court for that), otherwise I could write tens of massacres committed by Croats on Serbs in Croatia during Oluja based on Serb books, and believe me I will do that if you continue to place irregular information, and no Croat will like that, but I will do that just to show you what it means when you don't follow WP rules and when you misuse Wikipedia. I suggested even Kubura to be patient and to wait the end of Prlić case (just a few months more, it will be ended by the end of the year), and after that we will have final verification of all crimes that were mentioned during Bosnian-Croatian war, we will see whose arguments were correct those of Defence or those of Prosecution. And no matter what the verdict will be, I will respect that. Regards. The Dragon of Bosnia 15:14, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, Dragon. Have in mind that, unfortunately, ICTY is used as mean of political pressure. Blaškić at first got 45 years (what has Blaškić done, killed half of Bosnia?), with judge Jorda's legendar political speech afterwards. On the other hand, Martić, Plavšić, Babić and others got much smaller verdicts (such funny small verdicts you got for a car crash, not for a war crime). Allthough their operational area was much much wider... and much more dead bodies behind them... And 9 years later, ICTY admits his obvious mistakes, and reduces the Blaškić's verdict to exactly 9 years (now half of Bosnia isn't dead anymore)...Any smaller verdict means, that ICTY would have to pay him for being "overimprisoned". Not to mention what would be if Blaškić was declared innocent. Where would they get the money? What would be with very lucrative further international political careers of prosecutors, judges and accusers (as well as with theirs political and economic connections and influences)? It's harder to admit mistake, than to hang a Pedro. Who cares for a small countrylet and some small cockroach-Balkan tribe. Kubura 08:12, 17 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Kubura I have to correct you. The facts that had been established in Blaskic case were not changed, his punishment was just changed. ICTY and other int. courts have a practice first to establish events, and afterwards decide about role of accused person(s). Blaskic defence claimed that Zagreb was directly responsible for massacres in Lasva Valley, not Blaskic himself, the court concluded that indeed, Croatia sent his Army in Bosnia to fight against Bosniak civilians and to create Croatian Republic of HB and reduced Blaskic's punishment. So that decision is not very good for Croatia, just for Blaskic, but as I told you people such as Mlivoncic and other journalists hid the truth, they didn't talk about it which was redicilous, because who can hide anything in digital era?! Anyone can read Blaskic verdict in official UN site. The Dragon of Bosnia 13:56, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Tuđman is dead, so ICTY doesn't have to fight wars with him over the back of Croatia or Croats. That means that all those crap committed against Croats will swam on top. Do you know, what politician (I won't say the name) served in N. Ireland, known for its words "kill the b* Catholics"? Also, now is USA very interested in al-Quaida's mujahedins schooltime in Bosnia. I won't say on which side. Kubura 08:12, 17 August 2007 (UTC)


 * So you don't have to worry. ICTY is not muslim court, and this is so called anti-muslim era with all power, CIA, FBI. etc. But still ICTY discarded such claims, and those are qualified as propaganda (there is actually a whole section in Stakic case about propaganda about mujahedeens) No one denies the fact that there were Arabs (few hundreds, less than thousand) who came in Bosnia to fight on Bosnian side, as well as nazi units in 104th Eugen Kvaternik brigade of HVO, but the number of those were irrelevant. Why did ICTY conclude that? Because it only respects real evidence, eg if something was written in Slobodna Dalmacija about mujahedeens, they will investigate everything about that, who is the source of info, is that source reliable, etc. and then they make a decision about the evidence. There is also one interesting information about Arabs: 90% of them had Croatian identification documents, they all came accross Croatia and Herzeg Bosnia (Croats didn' stop them to cross, why is that? Bosnia had no control of borders) and Bosnian Army didn't like them, but didn't fight against them, because Army already fought against Serb and Croat forces and Narodna Odbrana of Fikret Abdic. Probably they were afraid they would open another war. There was actually one incident between Bosnian Army and Arab unit. All these questions would and had been judged by ICTY, and I will respect their decision at the end of current trials no matter the fact that ICTY is court with mostly Christian judges and other stuff. I believe in law. The Dragon of Bosnia
 * Interesting points Dragon of Bosnia; not a Muslim court in the Hague at all. But you seem to know something that the rest of us don't, "if alleged, the court will do everything to investigate... ." Polititians in every country from every time have a code of conduct: 'Never launch an investigation unless you know in advance what the findings will be. It is important to those Western countries who involved themselves in the Balkan wars that Serbs are the biggest agressor and main bad-guy, followed by the Croats, and in last place - innocent Bosnian Muslims. Do you know what would happen if every Chetnik claim was investigated by the officials working for the bodies which matter? The populations of these Western countries would start to see (as I feel some are doing) that the Bosnian war was indeed a three-way enterprise, and that would prove damaging for NATO since they sent signals that Serbs committed the biggest and worst atrocities, and the Muslims (who before 2001 had done nothing), did actually do a few bad things, but none so bad. It was US-Democrats with the UK stuck to their backsides supporting France and Germany who ran every campaign regarding official foreign involvement in Bosnia: they lead the "peace", they fund the court which issues "warrants for arrest"; they look after the "arresting and bringing to justice"; they decide when to go. You don't think the governments of Ecuador, Guatemala, Chad, the Soloman islands, Papua New Guinea, Bhutan or Georgia are too intested in the criminal courts and peace in Bosnia do you?? You don't honestly believe that the King of Thailand sold his second home to fund the ICTY do you? And surely you don't honestly think that Senegalese PM Toumare is issuing an award for the capture of Ratko Mladic? And if he does go down, you don't think that he'll stand in a court, with security guards from Argentina; a three-part dury from North Korea, Laos and Cuba respectively, and ultimately a judge from Algeria?? To reiterate, a judge standing representing the UN (a body technilcy higher than any counrty), but being involved in the first place for being a citizen of a member state (Algeria), being chosen by the Algerian government to represent their intersts (hence, why they are in it), and finally going home after a session's work, removing the ceremonial clothes which place him "above Algeria", back to being a civilian in Algeria, and finally explaining to President Bouteflike why his decision was against how it would have suited Algeria... can you imagine that? And how funny would it be if this fictional judge responded to Bouteflike "well the reason I had to let him go was because there was a lack of evidence, ie. innocence!" Will stupid little things like innocence cut ice with any world leader? You see Dragon of Bosnia, it is very easy to praise this so-called "world" organisation when it has been coming down on your side. I hardly blame you; if I were a Bosniak I'd adore the ICTY. It wouldn't stop me from realising that it is a political organisation with political goals. Evlekis 14:46, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Grabovica massacre
The Dragon of Bosnia, I've hoped that you're serious. You've made complaints, when removing the entries about war crimes committed against Bosnia-Herzegovina Croats in the article "List of war crimes". Besides others, you've removed Grabovica. But look at this. This verdict was from 8 Aug 2007. 5 (five) days after, you've removed the entries about war crimes against Bos. Croats, including the war crime in Grabovica. 13 Aug 2007, 23:23 - your first removal of Grabovica.  Your comment was: corrections, removed also alleged war crimes with no verification in court record, nor precise information about perpetrators. 14 Aug 2007, 13:09, I've reverted it.  14 Aug 2007,13:39, you've reverted to your version, removing Grabovica also, for the second time.  Your comment was: rv, not verified events, Ivica Mlivoncic's testimony about alleged war crimes was discarded in T. Blaskic case as irrelevant and based on propaganda 14 Aug 2007, 14:42, I've reverted it.  My comment was: Yeah, wright, maybe the bears and Clingons killed those people. 14 Aug 2007,14:48, you've reverted to your version, removing Grabovica also, for the third time.  Your comment was: just show me the verdicts to verify your thesis, see discussion, this is not forum, relaible information must be presented in this delicate topics). 14 Aug 2007, 23:52., TheFEARgod reverted my version, with cn-part. His comment was: (rv but added  ). 15 Aug 2007,16:44, you've reverted to your version, removing Grabovica also, for the fourth time.  Your comment was: read the introduction of the article (crimes need verification by the court) and see discussion, I already provided court sources which discard the claims). 16 Aug 2007, 08:06., Ante Perkovic reverted my version, His comment was: (rev, temporarely). 16 Aug 2007,09:56, you've reverted to your version, removing Grabovica also, for the fifth time.  Your comment was: discussion first; this article lists crimes which have been judged in a court to be Crimes Against Peace and Crimes against Humanity, read Wikipedia:Verifiability). 16 Aug 2007, 13:11, Ante Perkovic reverted to my version. His comment was: Sorry, forgot to make edits last time. Next edit in 5 minutes. Please wait). 16 Aug 2007, 13:16, Ante Perkovic removed all except Grabovica and Uzdol.  16 Aug 2007, 13:17, ST47 reverted to my version.  His comment was: unexplained removal. 16 Aug 2007, 14:49, you've reverted to your version, removing Grabovica also, for the sixth time.  Your comment was: (rv, per WP:RS and WP:Verifyibility, see disc, no source to confirm thesis, and they are discarded by ICTY in Blačkić case, you need court for the type of crime definition, leave propaganda for hr wiki). Later, I stood aside, to avoid edit-warring. You've removed the Grabovica from the list of war crimes for the  six  times! And that was after the verdict by court from Bosnia and Herzegovina, that condemned to prison three Bosniak perpetrators to 39 y. alltogether. Almost a month passed, and you haven't reacted. Were you eager to remove war crimes committed against Croats (in the cases where the perpetrators were the Bos. Muslim forces)? I could think that you weren't careful, but six times? After six removals, I don't believe that was the accident. And month passed, and you haven't changed that. That wasn't OK, Dragon. You've held us tirades about "not verified events", "not verified by court", "leave propaganda for hr.wiki", but you DID removed entry about the war crime that was FRESHLY processed, I mean, there's FRESH verdict (second for that case). Just five days have passed from that verdict, four days from publishing on the internet on the newspaper pages. Here're the references. Here, the links from .ba domain. Newspaper "Oslobođenje". "Druga presuda za ratni zločin u selu Grabovica" Newspaper "Dnevni list".  Kakanj Online.  Newspaper "Dnevni avaz". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kubura (talk • contribs) 21:16, 13 September 2007 (UTC) Here's a link from .hr domain. Newspaper "Slobodna Dalmacija".  "Sudsko vijeće Županijskog suda u Mostaru, pod predsjedanjem suca Hame Kebe izreklo je jučer ukupno 39 godina zatvora za trojicu pripadnika Armije BiH koji su u selu Grabovici, sjeverno od Mostara, ubili tri člana hrvatske obitelji Zadro... Nihad Vlahovljak, Haris Rajkić i Sead Karagić u vrijeme počinjenoga zločina bili su pripadnici Devete motorizirane brigade Prvoga korpusa Armije BiH, a osuđeni su na po trinaest godina zatvora za ubojstvo tri člana obitelji Zadro." "Court Council of court in Mostar, under the presidentship of judge Hamo Kebo, has given the verdict to three persons, that have killed three members of Croat family Zadro, in the village of Grabovica, N of Mostar. Nihad Vlahovljak, Haris Rajkić and Sead Karagić were in the time of the crime the members on 9th motorized brigade of 1. Corps of Armija BiH. They've been convicted to 13 years each for murder of three members of family Zadro." Sincerely, Kubura 20:31, 13 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Exactly! It was a verdict about murder of three people, not verdict about massacre. There is still no court validation about massacre (findings of fact), that is what I was talking about. But obviously you don't no the law very well. I read you articles on hr Wikipedia, I will have to register there beacuse it is obvious that you based your writings on propaganda (Trusina, Doljani and Grabovica). As you quoted above Mostar court convicted three soldiers of three murders not of massacre, which is different. It is individual act and is treated differently. The Dragon of Bosnia 19:18, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Let me use your logic. How do you define Serbs that were killed in Osijek by Croats? Osijek massacre or multiple murders of Serbs, incidents in different locations? If you want me to use your logic, then you will get Osijek massacre article, Garaža massacre, Selotejp etc. What I want to say is that murder or multiple murder according to law is different type of crime, and this article is about war crimes/crimes against humanity, not about murders, we are talking about planned and implemented war crimes, verifed on the court. Halilovic was found not guilty, even Delic (when prosecutor tried to accusse him of Grabovica, Trial Chamber discarded it, because Army of BH as an institution was found not guilty), so it was delegeted to local courts as an act of murder. Also, I told you once, you have to learn how to use terms. Bosnian Army is the term used by the court and constitution of BH, conspiracy theory is smth inherent to Croat nationalistic newspaper, as Večernji list, and hr Wikipedia, so please leave it there (We have to use offical names, not what you like or not, what would you think if I use Ustasha army-Ustaška armija instead of Croatian forces, as you use "Armija BiH"-Muslim army; for example 104th Eugen Kvaternik HVO Brigade had nazi flag and salute, but I cannot call it nazi brigade, I have to call it according to its official name). Regards. The Dragon of Bosnia 20:03, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

For Ante Perkovic regarding the "non-Serbs" issue
As it stands, I have reverted it back. It will have to be amended one way or another: the description boxes give an account of the atrocity, but remember, not all of the events down the page have been "internationally" dealt with. Now the /Croats and other non-Serbs/ is very much the wording of the ICTY and critics of the war-time Serbs. However, because of the fact that not all acts which are considered war crimes have been investigated by UN-funded courts and yet they still stand; it means that for those which were handled by an international body, it is not necessary to recount the exact allegation; in other words, we can be more precise than the courts which only promote the interests of the parties who drive them (fund them, staff them etc). Firstly there is no such thing as "Croats and other non-Serbs", can you name a Croat who is also a Serb? Non-Serbs can stand alone if it is relevant. Secondly, for the entire duration of the unrecognised RSK, there dwelled a non-Serb population in every single municipality. Not one was even estimated to be 100% Serbian. So saying that "one chunk of the population was Croatian, the others were non-Serb" is nothing more than a commonality. You could just as easily say that they were "Croats and other non-Arabs", or call them all "non-Mexicans" - because whilst an RSK administration has the power and yet is not expelling citizens who are declaring a nationality other than Serb - then whatever the reason they expel the larger section, it is not because they are not Serb. Furthermore, if it had been an attempt to create a "Pure Serbian state" in the way that many other nations have done regarding themselves and their local non-members both in history and in the present day, other such events would have occured, such as forced dissimilation of the rival identity. Maybe you might seek out and find proof that there were one-time Croats in the RSK who chose to remain outside politics by declaring Serb; but you cannot find evidence (because there isn't any) that there had been a Serbian objective to culturally cleanse the Croats and "other non-Serbs" (compare this to Macedonian Slavs of Greece, or actual Greeks who were Islamic by faith, both persecuted by a Greek regime which aimed to create a pure state only associated with Christianity or traditional Greek pre-Christian beliefs). It is also worth mentioning that whilst non-Serbs occupied important positions during the campaign, there were civilian Serbs who bore the brunt of Serbian aggression (note the Voćin massacre) - maybe one, but if you kill one man on political grounds, you kill a million, and if you allow one "supposedly non-ethnic" into your clan for opposite political reasons (ie. being on your side), you allow a million. There is one other thing however. I didn't suggest wiping out the "non-Serb" section altogether; there is of course the ICTY documentation which can be used as a source. However, whenever this is the case (and especially when it is mixed in with lists which involve "alleged" and untried atrocities), we must insert in the main text who the accuser is, and the artrocity here also needs to be "in quotations". I have already amended the Gospić massacre part so that it reflects the findings of a court, which you will consider more credible than the previous pro-Serb allegation. If it get's put back, I will note the court in question - place the text in quotations and position the source-link next to the explanation. So, 78,000 civilians mostly Croat? or ICTY: "78,000 non-Serbs"? One or the other. Evlekis 13:29, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Israeli War Crimes
Why is Israel getting a free pass for all her war crimes committed? Egyptian POW massacres, waging was against civilians, human shields..etc. Lets bring a little balance here.12.214.23.80 06:08, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

-Bulldozing Palestinian homes while still occupied.

-The refusal to grant the right of return to refugees.

-The wall which Israel is building that cuts through the West Bank, surrounds Jewish settlements, takes much of the arable land and the most valuable resource, water, and renders a lot of Palestinian territories virtually unviable.

-The hundreds of checkpoints and other barriers to prevernt easy transpor —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.85.47.136 (talk) 08:05, 26 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Agreed, at least parts of House demolition in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli Settlement and the Israeli Wall seem to be war crimes according to War crimes, being directed attacks against civilians, settlement of occupied territory and arguably deportation of inhabitants of occupied territory. Rostere (talk) 22:31, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Because wikipedia is full of pro-Israelis. 80.98.245.112 (talk) 17:41, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

What about bulldozing protestors?JohnC (talk) 06:05, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Kosovo
Kosovo needs to be reworked. It's no doubt ethnic cleansing was there, but names must be added, as well as figures, presented by the ICTY. --PaxEquilibrium 19:55, 22 September 2007 (UTC)


 * OK. I've written most of the text. Now the reasons for the 740,000 ethnic Albanian refugees are in there, but I think that this info should also be introduced. Also the list of the responsible people (Slobodan Milosevic, Milan Milutinovic, Nikola Sainovic, Dragoljub Ojdanic, Nebojsa Pavkovic, Vladimir Lazarevic, Vlastimir Djordjevic and Sreten Lukic). --PaxEquilibrium 22:25, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Nato's crimes perpetrated in Yugoslavia during 1999 war including deliberate bombing of civilian targets and using of prohibited or inhumane and indiscriminate weapons and munition (cluster bombs, white phosphorus, depleted uranium ammunition etc.) in densely populated areas are completely missing in this section. 88.101.177.121 (talk) 21:34, 30 March 2010 (UTC)Honza73

Iraq 2003 - Present
When will it be appropriate to discuss the current conflict in Iraq here? There is a well documented case that the Anglo-American invasion was a war of aggression, should we at least mention it? Timhaughton 13:04, 8 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I would suggest that this is not the correct page for that particular point to be made. Waging a war of aggression is an international crime discreet from "war crimes". See my comments below on Crimes Against the Peace/Crimes Against Humanity. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.1.203.238 (talk) 15:40, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

I think the war crimes committed by US led forces in Iraq should be included, such as the Haditha Massacre which is reasonably well documented, or the Abu Ghraib abuses. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.168.176.187 (talk) 03:45, 18 June 2008 (UTC)


 * agree with that —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.48.197.222 (talk) 19:01, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

sources?
It seems rather arbitrary what's been listed. For example, other than Wikipedia editors interpretation, what is the rationale for including the bombing of Dresden as a war crime? It has no sources. No one was charged with a war crime. The article intro says these are crimes committed after the Hague Convention but there is a court in Hague that hears cases. Shouldn't this list be limited to actual criminal war crimes cases with sources, preferably charges that were brought to the Hague? --DHeyward 18:46, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Withou objections, I will deleting all unsourced accusations. Also anything that is defined a sa war crime in the article that hasn't been adjudicated as such will also be deleted. --DHeyward 15:23, 26 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Deleting items without justification is vandalism and will be treated as such. Read the articles if you looking for citations.  Your artitrary view of what belongs in this article is not shared by WP editors who have placed the material here.  Solution: change your point of  view and move on. Hmains 22:23, 26 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Please read WP:V specifically WP:PROVEIT:
 * The burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material. All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged should be attributed to a reliable, published source using an inline citation. The source should be cited clearly and precisely to enable readers to find the text that supports the article content in question. If no reliable, third-party sources can be found for an article topic, Wikipedia should not have an article on it. Any edit lacking a source may be removed,...
 * deleting items which are not sourced is not vandalism and will be treated as such. --Philip Baird Shearer 23:48, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Read the first paragraphs of the article to discover what the article is about. This may not be what you like, but it is what the article is and the items included in it reflect that. Hmains 03:19, 27 October 2007 (UTC)


 * The intro says "those incidents which have been judged in a court of justice ." That hasn't been met in a number of cases and they are not cited.  --DHeyward 05:37, 27 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Now read all the sentences involved: "This article lists and summarizes War Crimes committed since the Hague Conventions of 1907. In addition, those incidents which have been judged in a court of justice to be Crimes Against Peace and Crimes against Humanity that have been committed since these crimes were first defined (in the London Charter, August 8, 1945) are also included."

See the phrase 'In addition' Hmains 05:41, 28 October 2007 (UTC)


 * It has to be a sourced mainstream view. An editors view that a certain event is a war crime is not good enough.  It's Original research to postulate that any particular act is a war crime.  --DHeyward 15:22, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I think more specifically  WP:UNDUE and WP:SYN. I went through this list back in April and March 2006 converting many of the entries to  tables and put in fact. Many of those citation needed are still there. Those entries should be deleted. DHeyward, the reason why one can not just use a court of law, for deciding if a war crime was committed, is exemplified by the Wormhoudt massacre there is no doubt that a war crime was committed, it is just that the culprits could not be identified. --Philip Baird Shearer 07:09, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

OK. YOU can improve the article and WP by adding the sources from the underlying articles. Deletion improves nothing. It is simply destructive. Hmains 20:19, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Again, I've looked at the articles for sources that it's a mainstream view that the events in question were "war crimes" in the meaning ofe Hague convention. The ones that didn't have this minimal requirement I deleted, including a number of events on this list that are unsourced and red link articles meaning the articles don't even exist.  Looking at an event and coming to your own conclusion that these are war crimes is Original Research.  For example, it is not a mainstream historical view that the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor was a war crime.  You can argue that it was, but that is not the requirement to add such things to Wikipedia.  There is no deltion of information as the articles that already exist have information in them.  This is a POV list that is unsourced and a compilation of editors random beliefs.  As was pointed out to you earlier, if you want to keep items in an article they must be sourced.  This is especially true for accusations against living people.  Please revert your edit until you have found the sources necessary to make the claims.  --DHeyward 21:24, 28 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I accept the information in the articles until such time as WP agrees to change the articles. The articles discuss war crimes.  This list is just a summary of what is stated in the articles. Where information is missing it needs to found/added; deletion accomplishes nothing useful to WP. If every statement or even every major statement in every article in WP were challenged for 'citations' or references, maybe 50-75% of WP content would disappear, maybe more.  Not a good situation, but that is the way it is.  The only articles that are seriously full of citations are Featured Articles, and even there, one could go though each citation and say it did not meet your personal criteria for an acceptable citation.  This is WP, not something else, not something really acceptable to serious professionals of any kind.  I do not see that you made an attempt here to improve this article.  I did try, but it is not "my" article and others can surely work on it as they have been doing so in the past, each in their own way.  Hmains 01:57, 29 October 2007 (UTC)


 * This is a list. A POV list as well.  I have not deleted any content out of wikipedia as the articles still exist in their previous state.  However, for such a POV list to exist, there must be sources to justify their existence in this list.  SOurces that say "This event should be on this list."  The most I can find for the events that I deleted from the list are "Event A occured.  The definition War Crime seems to fit Event A.  Event A is on the list."  This is a synthesis position and is explicitly forbidden.  And it's not like these events need a citation.  Inclusion in this list of a number of events is simply not justified by the mainstream historical view.  The "Attack on Pearl Harbor" is a simple example.   Deleting original research and making it meet the FA guidleines IS improving the article and it is disappointing that you would characterize my actions the way you did.  --DHeyward 04:36, 29 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Please read WP:V specifically WP:PROVEIT. This list is still a Wikipedia article and if challenged then citations should be added. --Philip Baird Shearer 06:54, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Your POV has not been the POV of collective editors of this list. You have no special standing to decided/assert what is the 'mainstream historical view'--no single WP editor has special standing. This is what WP is, sorry. A list is 'content'; you deleted content, based on your single point of view. And the articles do say a lot more than 'this happened'. They mention war crimes--as defined by the article heading. To be sure, they do not say 'this article is to be included in the 'List of War Crimes' article. And a list is just a series of pointers, an index to articles; it is not detail. A list rarely has the citations you speak of--unless it is a Featured List, a special case. Hmains 05:42, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
 * That's why we have policies. Claims must be sourced by the editors adding/readding the material.  That is fundamental.  I have no special standing that is why I cite policy.  Your claim that 'other lists are unsourced so this one should be too', is unconvincing.   Please cite the material.   What is also unconvincing is the claim that some events were "War crimes" but will not have sources.  Either the mainstream view is taht it is a war crime and there are sources that say so, or there aren't.  If there aren't then the event should not be on the list.  --DHeyward 06:09, 29 October 2007 (UTC)


 * The standard I've always looked for is an evidence of a general global consensus that an act was a war crime.  Criminal prosecution on the specific incident is one such type of evidence you might find, although other evidence of a general consensus could work.   Speaking in specifics-- I think there's a (global) consensus that the US submarine warfare in WW2 DID violate the rules of war-- but I don't think there's any (global) consensus whatsoever that the bombings of dredsen, hiroshima, or nagasaki qualify as war crimes.  I suggest those be removed.  --Alecmconroy
 * I don't think that anyone has requested a trial or even an indictment. Just a reliable source that says this is the mainstream historical view.  For example, it is a minority view that the A-bomb on japan was a war crime.  Minority views can go in the main article.  This is a list that should reflect the majority consensus view however and should not be listed here.  --DHeyward 02:51, 30 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Hmains, what in your opinion is the most reliable source that you have added that the bombing of Dresden was a war crime? --Philip Baird Shearer 06:51, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I have no way of judging that. I go by what articles say; I am not a researcher, nor a professional historian sitting in judgment.  I went to the Bombing of Desden article and found a section that gave all the reasons why Dresden was a war crime and copied references from that article into this list.  Silly?  You bet.  And I would gladly remove them.  I think that anyone wanting this level of detail should have to go to the underlying article and find out what it says and see the references therein.  They could also see the section about why Dresden was not a war crime and see all its references.  The Bombing of Dresden article makes no judgement of which is true. And, of course, since the US won the war, there was no war crimes trial.  If the article does not say for sure that it was a war crime, then it is going to be the judgment of an editor of this list that 'the mainsream view' is that it was not.  So is that editor just going to assert this baldly or going to parse the references and reject all those that are not to his liking.  One might want to engage in such editing and parsing in the underlying article and its talk page; I fail to see the benefit of such judgments taking place in this list--except where there is no underlying article and the only references are in this list.  Does this article need help. Yes.  But help in mind is working on the problems in the article, not doing wholesale deletion so the informataion is not even present here to discuss.

And thanks for just asking about one item, as DHeyward wants to and has been deleting dozens of entries from the article based on what he alone thinks should be in here or not. And each time backing into a difference excuse as to why they should go away. One of last ones was the assertion that the 'Attack on Pearl Harbor' was not a war crime and this being so obvious, it does not even need an argument. As far as this list goes, I say anything should go into it that meets the criteria of the article heading. And a War of Aggression against another state, as Pearl Harbor certainly was, is certainly within the scope of this article. Do we have to do more than show that Wars of Aggression are prohibited acts? Thanks Hmains 03:46, 30 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes you do. You are describing a classic synthesis which is not allowed per WP:RS.  You need sources that say the event was a war crime since this is a list that asserts that it is.  It needs to be the mainstream historical view that this is a war crime.  I am not qualified to say whether any particular act is a "war of agression" or whether a "war of agression" is a war crime, nor is the pervue of Wikipedia to decide such things.  Please find reliable sources that assert the mainstream view is that such acts are "war crimes." --DHeyward 04:38, 30 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Also, all the references Hmains added that cite the article in Wikipedia need to be removed and replaced. Wikipedia is not a reliable source.  You can use the same external, reliable sources the article does but they still must reflect the mainstream historical view.  --DHeyward 02:51, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
 * There seems to be a lack of understanding of plain English. I did not cite any WP article as a source of anything. I copied the text that was already used in many places in the list to look at the underlying WP article for the references contained therein.  Referring to articles' references is not saying look at the article text--unless you are going to say that all references cited in all WP artcles are not to be given any credit and one has to find new references just to satisify you.  This will not happen here or anywhere else. Hmains 03:16, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
 * "References in the article" is not adequate sourcing here or in any article. The claims here cannot be verified that way.  Which references?  Which sources?  They need to be just as explicit here as they are in the article espcially considering the claims that are made here.  --DHeyward 04:32, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Back to the USA bombing of Dresden:
 * Hmains you wrote "I go by what articles say; I am not a researcher, nor a professional historian sitting in judgment. I went to the Bombing of Desden article and found a section that gave all the reasons why Dresden was a war crime and copied references from that article into this list.  Silly?  You bet.  And I would gladly remove them." There were two parties involved in bombing Dresden one was the RAF the other the USAAF. The British used area bombardment and the Americans precision bombardment (although to those on the ground the distinction made little difference) -- I know you have read the bombing of Dresden article but not everyone who reads this may have and might not know that there was a difference. Given this distinction you can not just cut and past references from that article into this one without reading them and making a judgement because not all of them are relevant to the USAAF bombing of Dresden being a war crime.
 * Hmains you also wrote "The Bombing of Dresden article makes no judgement of which is true. And, of course, since the US won the war, there was no war crimes trial." Please read Aerial area bombardment and international law. If it was clear that aerial bombardment was a war crime why has no one ever been prosecuted for it -- This includes members of the Axis powers?
 * you also wrote "But help in mind is working on the problems in the article, not doing wholesale deletion so the information is not even present here to discuss." I direct you to WP:V and what Jimbo wrote (with which I agree) "I can NOT emphasize this enough. There seems to be a terrible bias among some editors that some sort of random speculative 'I heard it somewhere' pseudo information is to be tagged with a 'needs a cite' tag. Wrong. It should be removed, aggressively, unless it can be sourced. This is true of all information, but it is particularly true of negative information about living persons."
 * So unless you can come up with sources for the Bombing of Dresden which describe the type of war crime committed by the Americans at Dresden I am going to remove it as none of the sources that you have put there are reliable sources on this issue. --Philip Baird Shearer 09:47, 30 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree the references here are useless. However, the article you pointed me to, Area bombardment includes a judgement of a Japanese court that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were war crimes under law existing at the time.  That judgement seems well supported by other text in this article.  How is Dresden to be distinguished from them? Hmains 03:43, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

What is a war crime
Exactly what is a war crime is complicated and there is a list of treaties of positive international law that largely define crimes (see International treaties on the laws of war). However most war crimes are listed in three major sets of treaties the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 which since Word War II are considered customary law, the Geneva Conventions of 1949 (with additional clarification in the 1977, protocol I and protocol II -- these additional protocols have not been as widely ratified as 1949 but much of what they say is a clarification of customary law and accepted as such by most powers) and the Rome Statute which again although many states are not bound by it includes a list which is for the most part covered by customary law. Articles 22-28,323-34 in IV - The Laws and Customs of War on Land of the 1907 Hague Conventions]]and Article 8 of the Rome statute cover most of the restrictions on combat (much of which is customary law) while the Geneva conventions cover POWs and since 1949 the treatment of civilians in occupied territory. --Philip Baird Shearer 11:46, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Crimes against humanity and crimes against peace
This list is a list of war crimes. I suggest that it becomes just that and that all convictions for "crimes against humanity" are removed from the list because there does not have to be a war for a crime against humanity to occur crimes against peace however by definition involve war so as crimes against peace are relatively rare, they should be include in a separate section entitled "Crimes against peace".--Philip Baird Shearer 11:46, 30 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree with Philip Baird Shearer's comments. References to Crimes Against Humanity and Crimes Against Peace should be in separate Wikipedia entries. They are distinct crimes in International Law. I would no more expect to see reference to them in this entry that I would reference to Genocide. This page should be for War Crimes, not International Crimes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.1.203.238 (talk) 15:38, 2 January 2008 (UTC)


 * This seems like a very reasonable idea. As you help identify "crimes against humanity", could you move them into a new article of this name rather than deleting them?  Maybe we could also get the 'type of crime' column to consistently identify the law that was violated instead of the description of the crime.  Thanks Hmains 03:49, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Hmains I presume when you made this edit that you had forgotten about this conversation. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 08:35, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

We have to remove the definition first because otherwise unless all the crimes against humanity are removed in one go, the definition will encourage people to re-add them.

There is no need to build a new list of crimes against humanity just because information is removed from this list as many of the crimes against humanity in this list do not carry verifiable reliable sources and as such they should not be in any list. If someone wishes to start such a list, then that is independent of this list. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 13:17, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

It must be a crime
Too often people think that because something is usually a crime under peacetime, that it must be a crime under wartime and because it is a war crime now it must have always been a war crime. To take a clear cut example from international law, acts of genocide have been committed since time immoral, but the crime of genocide has only existed under international law since the coming into force of the CPPCG on 12 January 1951. Like wise the crime of ordering no quarter, was not accepted as a crime under international law until it was established under the Article 23 of the IV Convention – The Laws and Customs of War on Land of the Hague Conventions of 1907. In the early modern period and in the Napoleonic wars it was common for sieges to end with the killing of the garrison, if the garrison had refused to surrender before the final assault.

This is a list of crimes, and if a source is credible, then it is not only going to say that such and such was a war crime, it is either going to explain what was the law that was broken, or it is going to mention the trial and the people found guilty. I spent a considerable time going through this list in March and April 2006 changing many entries into tables and putting in "citation needed" templates. It seems that a year and a half on many of those same allegations are still in this list and are not sourced. If not accurate description of the alleged war crime can be found in a third party source then it should be deleted from this list. So as not to upset other editors I am going to start at the top of the list and go through it section by section so we can discuss if there are any sources for the alleged war crimes. --Philip Baird Shearer 11:46, 30 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I am glad to be discussing this with someone who cares about this article and has intelligently worked on it in the past. Yes, it is pretty bad and your idea of discussion is a good one--but I think I detect very few editors are really working on this article or even watching it, I don't know how far this will get.   I only started watching this article when I noticed some odd deletions were happening--presumably by nationalists trying to "defend" the reputations of their various countries.  I added lots of 'citation needed' entries yesterday on articles which had no reference at all that they even happened--but maybe they could be found somewhere in some of the references to the Yugoslav area war crimes courts.  Oh, and the 'type of crime' column should again show the law involved, instead of a description of the crime which can be in the right-most column.


 * May I suggest that entries that cannot be currently found at all or found to be war crimes in good references be moved to the Discussion page with a note of what is required of them before they be placed back in the article itself. That would certainly meet my concern of information loss that happens just by deletion.  Thanks in advance for your effort.  Hmains 04:05, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Move them if you want, but the information is not lost as it is still in the history of the article. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 13:31, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

The USAAF bombing Dresden
User:Hmains, you made an edit (Revision as of 03:52, 5 December 2007) to List of war crimes with the comment "an obvious crime; read the rules of war; you were going to research all this article; targeted, repeated deletions is not research."

--Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 10:08, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Please read WP:PROVEIT a section of the Verifiability policy. What is your verifiable reliable source for the "obvious war crime" that was committed when the USAAF bombed Dresden?
 * 2) What was the "obvious war crime" that was committed when the USAAF bombed Dresden?
 * 3) *Which raid on Dresden are you claiming was an obvious war crimes or are you arguing that all of them were?
 * 4) *461 B-17s were dispatched to hit the marshalling yard at Dresden on February 14 1945 what makes that an obvious war crime when on the same morning 457 B-17s were sent to hit the marshalling yard at Chemnitz which presumably you do not think was an obvious war crime?

User:Ahmad.ibn.as.Sayyid I had assumed that as you were editing to put in the USAAF bombing of Dresden that you were well read in the war crime debate about aerial bombardment. But AFAICT from the references you gave with the last edit that you made (Revision as of 21:37, 5 December 2007) shows that you are not.I think you might find this redirect interesting "aerial bombardment and international law". There is a major difference between the stated directives on strategic bombing that the RAF followed and those followed by the USAAF in Europe. For the people on the ground the difference may not have been apparent because of the inaccuracy of bombing methods used in the 1940's but legally there is a big difference. For much of the war the RAF followed a policy of area bombing, for some of the time as a leading component of their strategic attack on Germany, but for much of the time as an alternative secondary target if the primary targets (Oil, subs and tanks) were not available due to weather etc. Bomber Harris was a believer in area bombardment and used the tactic when other commanders might have judged it possible to bomb with more precision. The training and tactics used by most of the RAF strategic bomber force was geared towards area bombardment and in practice altering that proved difficult particularly when the man in charge of day to day operations happened to believe that there was little alternative.

The USAAF Eighth Air Force (and Fifteenth Air Force) used precision bombing. That is they did not area bomb but always went for specific targets that were directly aiding the German War effort. In the case of Dresden they went for the marshalling yards close to the centre of the city. Because in part they used blind bombing from H2X radar and also the inherent inaccuracy of dropping dumb bombs from thousands of feet up the effects on the ground were similar to the RAF. But in a court of law the USAAF would have argued that it was a precision raid against the rail transportation system within the enemy communications zone of an enemy active theater of operations and that any civilians killed or civilian property damaged was allowable under the doctrine of military necessity which makes up part of the laws of war.

User:Ahmad.ibn.as.Sayyid the source you have cited for you edit at 21:37 on 5 December 2007 is from the Guardian a British newspaper reporting the opinions of Jan Melichar the co-ordinator of Peace Pledge Union about the actions of the RAF. (1) There is nothing to indicate that Melichar is a reliable source about the laws of war governing aerial bombardment n 1945, and (2) Melichar is talking about the RAF actions not those of the USAAF. So this Guardian article is not a verifiable reliable source for assessing if the actions of the USAAF breached the laws of war when attacking Dresden. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 10:51, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

The RAF bombing Dresden
If Dresden is listed as a US war crime, it should also be listed as a UK war crime. Mbarbier 18:24, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Neither should be listed unless there are reliable sources that state it was a war crime. --Philip Baird Shearer 21:16, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

I read the book on the fire bombing of Dresden. Like many things, it is NOT as simple as "western civilization is evil".

The Dresden attack was made for several reasons. In hindsight (always 20/20) two of the reasons were wrong.

Reason one: The attack was an experiment of a new attack technique. The technique required a city that had suffered relatively little damage so the effectiveness could be judged, and within the range of allied bombers. Dresden qualified.


 * What were the new experimental technique? What is your source for this? --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 11:43, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Reason two: The allies fully expected to be fighting the USSR immediately after the war ended. Part of the rational for the Dresden attack was to demonstrate to the USSR the reach and destructiveness of which we were capable. This reason later proved incorrect as the Russian bureaucrats simply refused to believe the German casualty estimate and simply knocked a zero off the total before sending their report to Stalin. (the allies never did understand the power of totalitarian bureaucracy).


 * What is you source for this? Besides the Germans had added a nought to the figure that they handed to the neutral press( and F. Taylor; Dresden: Tuesday, 13 February, 1945; Page 424.)--Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 11:43, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Reason three: If you were going to select a city for reasons 1 & 2, you might as well have a legit military target. There were a couple legit targets in the city, but small and mainly outside the intended area of attack. This reason was sufficiently weak as to raise protest from the officers and men charged w carrying out the attack. They did their job, but made several symbolic gestures indicating disapproval.


 * What is your source for this statement? The Wikipedia article explains in detail why the Western Allies targeted the city and why the Soviets approved of its targeting. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 11:43, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Reason four: The destruction of Dresden was supposed to create a bottleneck w the railyards and the expected transhipment of retreating German armies. It didn't work.67.161.166.20 (talk) 01:25, 7 December 2007 (UTC)


 * It was not to create a bottleneck for retreating German armies but for reinforcements being sent to the Eastern Front from the Western Fronts. This is described in detail in the article/section: Bombing of Dresden in World War II --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 11:43, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

BOMBING OF  THE  SCHOOL OF  GORLA (MILANO) IN 1944: 200 CHILDREEN KILLED BY  FRIENDLY  FIRE --Deguef (talk) 20:38, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

This is bullshit. If dropping A bombs on Japan's civilians is a war crime so is the firebombing of Dresden. And I also find it funny the record of the UK is so clean. In reality we all know there are far more war crimes that have happened than that are on this list. But I find it funny as hell that evidence of not one ( the submarine one is nothing really) I mean like killing POW or civilians, can not be found about the UK. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.53.238.102 (talk) 16:45, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

PROVEIT
In line with WP:PROVEIT all entries in this list should carry citation to verifiable reliable third party sources. All the other entries in this list should be deleted. They can always be re-added if suitable citations can be found. The reason for specifying third party sources is because this type of list is a magnet for Original research quoting Jimbo in WP:PROVEIT:

As I said above in
 * I spent a considerable time going through this list in March and April 2006 changing many entries into tables and putting in "citation needed" templates. It seems that a year and a half on many of those same allegations are still in this list and are not sourced. If not accurate description of the alleged war crime can be found in a third party source then it should be deleted from this list. So as not to upset other editors I am going to start at the top of the list and go through it section by section so we can discuss if there are any sources for the alleged war crimes.

Well I've started. I have removed Germans in World War I and Italians. Both AFAICT committed war crimes but there are no third party sources that state that war crimes were committed and the current entries both contain original research claiming without reliable third party sources that they are war crimes --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 13:29, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

A huge number of citations have the wording "References in the article". This is not acceptable as the Wikipedia POLICY WP:V states "Articles should rely on reliable, third-party published sources" so I have changed then all to the citation needed template --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 13:48, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Yugoslav wars
For me is really stupid that number of crimes in Yugoslav wars is very similar to number of German crimes in all Europe during WW II. Maybe I am mistaking but for me this is typical example of Balkan nationalistic fighting/editing in wikipedia. --Rjecina 00:00, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Deleted because of inadequate citations
As I said in a previous section I think we should delete all entries that are not properly cited under the provisions of WP:PROVEIT

I have deleted:
 * World War I --German perpetrated crimes no citations to third party sources.--Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 21:13, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

I intend to delete the following entries: --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 21:13, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Turkish perpetrated crimes, because the current entry is not about the war crimes committed but crimes in general.
 * Second Italo-Abyssinian War, using gas may have been a war crime, but there are currently no cited third party reliable sources.

1935-1936: Second Italo-Abyssinian War
ATTENTION MUSSOLINI  INVADED  ETHIOPIA, BUT  NOT  SOMALIA

In fact Eritrea and Somalia were under Italian rule years before Mussolini going to power and making war against Ethiopia. Please dont charge Mussolini of having invaded Somalia, the aggression of Ethiopia is enaugh!--Deguef (talk) 10:25, 19 June 2009 (UTC)--Deguef (talk) 10:25, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

I have moved the above to here because there are sources givent and it has been fact tagged since Feb 2007. It should not be move back until reliable third party sources are added stating it was a war crime.--Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 13:32, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

other info about hungarians masacres (besides IP) you may find here - translation nedeed! http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masacre_%C3%AEn_Transilvania_de_Nord%2C_1940-1944 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.113.59.80 (talk) 14:18, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

I would propose moving it back and citing the following article addressing both fact tags: http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/northeast_african_studies/v006/6.1pankhurst.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.84.15.75 (talk) 20:30, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Ustaša's crimes
Can someone add Ustaša's war crimes during WWII in NDH.--Vojvodaen (talk) 09:57, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Serbian aggression on Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
...never happened.

Furthermore, practically only alleged war crimes committed by Serbian and Croatian armies are listed. Nikola (talk) 22:56, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

1990 Invasion of Kuwait
I think it is interesting that the crimes perpetuated by Iraq are listed as unpunished. The ensuing international crack down by allied forces and follow on sanctions was the reprisal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blackoutdaddy (talk • contribs) 03:03, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Battle for Maslenica Bridge
Killings of 490 or 491 individuals Croatian army. No prosecutions 22 January - 1 February 1993; invasion of territory under international protection

That was a big millitary operation.those people were killed in combat.This shouldn't be here. and about invasion of territory under international protection... it's croatian territory.croatia had every right to get some territory back under it's internationaly recognized borders.

I'm removing that,because it has nothing to do with war crimes.--(GriffinSB) (talk) 11:05, 15 March 2008 (UTC)


 * The article about Operation Maslenica states that several serbian villages were burned down by Croatian armed forces resulting in at least 160 civillian casualties. I think that has something to do with war crimes. SWik78 (talk) 14:36, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

OK,but why is the number of 490 people given here???

reduce the number then.you can't count the military casualties that died during the battle as victims of war crimes.--(GriffinSB) (talk) 10:25, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Operation Otkos 10
Killings of numerous individuals and expulsion of civilians Croatian army. No prosecutions 12 December 1991 - 2 January 1992; most of Western Slavonia taken from RSK There is nothing in the Operation Otkos 10 article about warcrimes.It was a stategic battle. Army combatants killed during a battle can not be listed as victims of warcrimes.--(GriffinSB) (talk) 11:16, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Misleading article title
"List of war crimes" suggests the article is a list of acts considered war crimes, similar to that seen on War crime. Perhaps a title more along the lines of "List of historic/committed/instances of war crimes" would be more appropriate. --NEMT (talk) 19:10, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Battle for Maslenica Bridge
This was no warcrime,this was a battle.If the soldiers are killed during battle than it can't be seen as a war crime. --(GriffinSB) (talk) 10:24, 21 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Operation Maslenica article lists this as the only reference and that's where the 490 number comes from. Please provide a link that counts 67 victims as you allege. SWik78 (talk) 16:14, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

http://www.hri.org/docs/USSD-Rights/93/Croatia93.html

Criteria for war crimes articles
Please comment here Talk:Japanese_war_crimes--Stor stark7 Speak 16:59, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

China and Others
I've got personal reasons to resent Japanese and others, but I want to try to be fair in general, so please bear with the below.

I've listened to the Chinese-born relatives of friends and loves as well as modern exchange-students and was surprised to hear so many claim Chiang and Mao were like Stalin in that they murdered more Chinese than even the Japanese did.

This year I saw on CBC a Chinese woman, whose family was made homeless by the Olympics, cry out she lived there during the Japanese occupation and claimed even the present gov't was worse than the Japanese. I remember choking on my soup when I watched that.

Being a Canadian, especially who had relatives who died/POW fighting the Japanese, I was also surprised to read in 2 Hong Kong newspapers during a business trip, that even Chinese University studies including the University of Nanking, claim from 25 year study including census and migration records that the vast majority of the casualties and abuses we claim at Nanking, were not perpetrated by the Japanese, but by Chinese warlords and brigands. They claimed the Japanese proven directly resonsible for 30-50,000 out of 100- 250,000 or 500,000 I was taught. Still a war-crime but we, ourselves, torched more men, women, children and babies in one bombing raid. Going there to visit memorials to my Canadian relatives who defended there, you can imagine my surprise.

We don't blame Hitler for the 25 million Soviets Stalin murdered himself, I just think we should be similarily honest with our other enemies. We seem to blame the Japanese for all Chinese deaths from 1931 to 1945 omitting the contribution of the ongoing Chinese Civil war that caused some of my Japanese friends, including some from Nanking, emigrated to Canada here.

Reading a book authored by WW2 sources involved in War Crime Trials, "Total War" by Calvocoressi, Wint and Pritchard make similar claims including the fact Chiang(as my girlfriend's families left China because of) murdered more than a million of his own civilians by blowing dykes and dams just to delay the Japanese pursuing him. That was just one incident of many causing millions more Chinese on Chinese war crimes unrelated to the Japanese.

Hell, I've seen Vietnamese accuse Koreans and Chinese besides us and Koreans and Chinese and Vietnamese accuse eachother besides us. Yet the only Asian war crimes we ever hear of are of Japanese. I'm only learning of this myself now, and I'm supposed to be teaching this stuff. We weren't taught this.

I'm not apologizing for enemy war crimes, but I wonder why even in the List of War Crimes webpage, China and some others aren't mentioned at all.

I just read part of the book where months before Nanking, Chinese troops were recorded to have herded Korean and Japanese civilians in some city, hundreds of them, tortured, raped, pregnant women and babies bayoneted and buried and burned alive. How come I've never heard of these war crimes in any of our other history books or these pages?

By the way, to be fair, my own surviving relatives have admitted we did war crimes too, so I hope no-one thinks I'm just picking on anyone, Japanese, Chinese, Germans or otherwise. I just notice that we don't seem to be listing global criminals and victims equally.

So how about China and others, including us of course, too?AthabascaCree (talk) 00:46, 29 September 2008 (UTC)


 * THANK YOU for, if what you say is all true, an eye opening view of history most of us know little of. So it sounds as if we have a volunteer to write a section on it! Make sure it's well sourced and make an entry on my talk page when you do- I don't want to miss it. Batvette (talk) 03:42, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Isn't it ironic
No, not the Alanis Morrisette song. But the criteria for Al Qaeda and other apparent 'terrorists' and 'terrorist' organisations attacks on the United States of America. Apparently they do not meet the requirements to be regarded as a legitimate fighting force or when captured be given POW status. And yet...they meet the same criteria when it comes to "war crimes". Hmm, how odd. You see, the criteria so far that makes them "guilty" of war crimes, is the same criteria the United States denies they've met to be given such simple things as POW status. Committing war crimes does not exclude someone or a group from being given rights, so that excuse is out. Hahaha, caught yourselves on that one eh Americans. 121.221.130.77 (talk) 07:32, 3 January 2009 (UTC) Harlequin


 * Don't you think? Interestingly enough, I wrote both sections - the al-Qaeda "crimes against humanity/war crimes/crimes against peace" and the US "war crimes/mistreatment of POWs/torture" section. Nations and armed groups bind themselves by what they claim to be. If al-Qaeda claims to be a group of "warriors", and engage in organized violence, then they bind themselves by the laws of war. Warriors do not engage in the mass murder of non-combatants; that's against the LOAC. Further, it's a crime against humanity. September 11th was mass murder, a crime against civilization. The same goes for the US. The IEA (Taliban) forces, at least during the initial combat operations in Afghanistan, bore arms openly, wore a fixed distinguishing mark visible at a distance, had a chain of command, and generally obeyed the LOAC. In sum, the Taliban were lawful partisans (if not a regular military force), and should have been treated as what their status was: POWs. They were not treated as POWs. This is a war crime. Further, torture of anyone is categorically a crime, regardless of who it is done to, or for what reason. The law of nations cannot comprehend the fruit of torture or the motivations of the torturer, for they are as a poison tree; it can only punish the deed of torture itself. There are and can never be any double standards: for the object of murder is always murder, the object of torture is always torture, the object of genocide is always genocide, the object of power is always power. Katana0182 (talk) 05:19, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

The September 11 attacks cannot be regarded as war crimes. They do not involve a sovereign power or regular military force. if they are included then all terrorist attacks must be included. This entry is about war crimes, not terrorism.JohnC (talk) 06:07, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * It did involve a de facto sovereign. The Taliban regime, upon having general geographical control of Afghanistan, could be considered a sovereign under international law, specifically under the Constitutive theory of statehood, enshrined in the Montevideo Convention. The Taliban and Al Qaeda were commingled, as well, at the time of the September 11th attacks, perhaps making Al Qaeda a subject of international law at the time. Besides, war crimes are individual acts or omissions committed by members of a belligerent force, not by a sovereign.
 * Al Qaeda, being an armed group, acting internationally, potentially under color of state sponsorship, declaring themselves "warriors", is only bound by what they declare themselves to be; if they declare themselves to be warriors, and engage in organized violence, they bind themselves by the customary laws of war, and under those customary laws they may be punished; this is just as a group declaring itself a nation is bound by the customary law of nations.Katana0182 (talk) 02:15, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

I find it more ironic that the afghan war is on the list but the iraq war is not. Its been awhile but did they not get security council approval for the afghan war(know they didn't for the iraq war).--Wilson (talk) 00:23, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 * The Iraq War section is escaped for now, it's still being written. Please feel free to fix it.Katana0182 (talk) 02:15, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Isn't it ironic that when the United States mistreats a Taliban or Iraqi militant it is a 'War Crime' but when the terrorists cut the head off a journalist, no one seems to care? 208.79.15.102 (talk) 11:33, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * "It isn't about who they are, IT'S ABOUT WHO WE ARE. " - John McCain. End of discussion. Katana0182 (talk) 02:52, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Where is the missing "elephant in the room" article
Would someone dare to write an article on US war crimes? There is a minor section in this article, but nothing that would cover post-war history, or history before WWII. Napalm in Vietnam, Abu Ghraib, anyone?

Also, there is no distinction made between mass murders/genocide, and relatively minor crimes resulting in 10-15 victims. It is essential to emphasize the former.Jaksap (talk) 06:15, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Sure. See Allied war crimes during World War II.Biophys (talk) 13:50, 27 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Aah, the evils of napalm. The use of incendiary weapons obviously has been forbidden since time immemorial. It is criminal to burn the enemy. Obviously. (hilarious laughter)... Find a citation that says so from a reliable source, and I'll give you a cigar.
 * Also, Abu Ghraib is there, just escaped, as it's being written. WP:SOFIXIT.
 * Those who would write articles about the war crimes of the United States should, instead, write articles about war crimes perpetrated against the United States, as the object of Wikipedia is to hold the sum of human knowledge, not to be your soapbox.
 * I am a proud American, yet I write of the war crimes perpetrated by the United States, and the war crimes perpetrated against the United States. Doing both is what Wikipedia is about. ;-) Katana0182 (talk) 03:03, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

The obscured line between "war crimes" and "allegations of" same.
I notice there is a painfully brief section giving mention to allegations of war crimes, yet in the section above it there are also portions in related conflicts that go into great detail laying out allegations, some even the same players as the allegations section alludes to. While some of the events in those conflicts have been resolved through military courts martials and the like, and merit inclusion it's highly irresponsible to place living persons on a "list of war crimes" without due process as afforded by the constitution (or international tibunal, as it were) finding them actually guilty of committing war crimes. Not only does this place the material clearly on the wrong side of the wiki guidelines on living persons, it also serves to trivialize the actual war crimes as appearing above them. Batvette (talk) 04:00, 7 June 2009 (UTC)


 * The war crimes are considered by reliable sources to have occurred (as verified by citation) or "everyone knows about them", e.g. they are common knowledge, and nobody feels comfortable enough to remove them. Checking citations, if bad citations are provided, or undue weight is given to such citations, is encouraged.
 * Individuals named should only be named if a reliable source has alleged them to be war criminals, unless they have been convicted of such crimes. Please fix as necessary. Katana0182 (talk) 03:42, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

FOIBE MASSACRES BY TITO'S PARTISANS ARE  GREATLY  UNDERESTIMATED
Actually not all ethnic Italians (both soldiers and civilians) murdered by partisans lost their life in the foibe at the end of WWII, but many were murdered in different ways (drownings, shootings, bombs). This is the reason of misunderstanding in the figures. The figure of people murdered has to be increased of at least ten times.Furthermore Italians citizens were killed not only in territories today's in Slovenia and Croatia, but also in eastern Italy (Trieste, Gorizia, etc.)--Deguef (talk) 12:47, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

List of Crimes Against Humanity
I have moved the comment below from the main artile to here. - TB (talk) 22:38, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * There is the article "List of War Crimes" but why is there not an article that lists crimes against humanity? Some crimes against humanity may not have been committed during war, but they are not less important. For example, someone had added the Holodomor to the "List of War Crimes" article, but it was removed. This would certainly qualify as a crime against humanity if it is not a war crime.

Urnchurl (talk) 22:54, 16 November 2009 (UTC) -

There is the article "List of War Crimes" but why is there not an article that lists crimes against humanity? Some crimes against humanity may not have been committed during war, but they are not less important. For example, someone had added the Holodomor to the "List of War Crimes" article, but it was removed. A separate article for crimes against humanity should be created to encompass all such crimes regardless of war. Urnchurl (talk) 23:06, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Some Crimes Being Ignored?
Are some crimes being ignored and deliberately deleted to take attention away from them? Who gets to decide what is important and what is not? History will repeat itself like it already has as long as people try to hide or distort the truth. Urnchurl (talk) 23:07, 16 November 2009 (UTC)


 * We should only record war crimes if reliable sources state that something is a war crime (see Wikipedia Policy WP:V specifically WP:SOURCES and WP:PROVEIT). Editors should not add entries for something that they think is a war crime. -- PBS (talk) 15:10, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Indeed, this article is highly arbitrary. Lets teake the war crimes of the yogoslavian partisans in WW2. About every second ethnic german, who made before the war around 25% of Vojwodinas population, were brutally murdered. Around 350`000, mainly women and children... not even mentioned. The whole Holocaust on the ethnic germans within the reach of the red army and the partisans 1944-1948 is fairly ignored. Like many other war crimes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.73.34.106 (talk) 18:17, 27 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I am quite surprised that there is no mention of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975, and subsequent crimes committed upon withdrawal in 1999 (which itself has an astonishingly brief Wikipedia entry). Donners (talk) 05:27, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Italian crimes
I propose to remove this statement aboout italian crime because there are not valid cited source

"War crimes in the Balkans, in France, Italy and on the Eastern Front"

I never heard about of Italian crime in France (the declaration of war was respectful of Geneve convention), in Italy (RSI was not Italy but a illegimate nation) and in Eastern front. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Firestorm81 (talk • contribs) 12:13, 29 December 2009 (UTC)


 * The only crimes claimed against Italy in WW II were in the Balkans, made as measures of retaliation against terrorism by communist or nationalistic guerilla. However in the Balkans the life of thousands of Jews was saved by Italian soldiers.Previous crimes were claimed for the colonial wars in Africa--Deguef (talk) 14:04, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

war crimes panel
every 3 years we have a panel of various experts science and tech should be well represented. to update the definition of war crimes in 2010 i propose this panel ...mainly because im begining to understand depleted uranium. if you need more just... image search DU BABY on google mixing DNA and depleteded uranium worse thing you can do...ever! i know im the real master of the understatement ....right —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.101.223.88 (talk) 00:53, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Serb propaganda
Can Serb users please refrain from further adding every piece of military activity aimed against your regime in the 90's. There were no war crimes comited against Serbs at all, only a few "over-exuberant" military acts which killed one or two people more than needed. In the end of the day, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. Serbs had their fun in the Yugoslav Wars when they occupied most of Yugoslavia from 1990-1995. In that time, they comited war crimes when they set up concentration camps, murdered non-Serbs, tortured and killed their own collaborators, used UN peacekeepers as human shields, comited countless massacres, and annexed the lands into their "Greater state". The come 1995 when the world finally stood up to the Serbs and the oppressed populations found the guts to fight them, the Serbs ran away like the chickens they are and now they are claiming that every operation made to get them back to the internationally recognized "Serbia" is a war crime. They never claim that the killing of 9,000 Muslim children in Srebrenica is a war crime yet when one of their troops is killed in the process of comiting a war crime himself, they scream blue murder and make out that 20 other civilians were killed every other time. 1 -20 is nothing in a single incident compared to their average killings of 2,000 each time, 2 - no reliable sources support their stories, they all came from Serb-controlled news. All reliable data like the Helsinki Convention, the Geneva Convention, the UN, NATO, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Red Cross, Green Cross, UNICEF, OXFAM and everyone else including the free western press have denounced their stories as fake and shameless. No evidence. Z Victor Alpha (talk) 19:48, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

ATENTION ADMINS - BLOCK TADIJA. He is spreading the propaganda I warned about above and now he has two sockpuppet sidekicks, so new he hasn't touched their userpages yet. They are so-called "Mean as custard" and "Uncle Dick" but check edits and it is definately Tadija. I said before and I say again, military operations are not war crimes because they are not aimed at civilians. They are the necessary tool to reestablish internationally recognized borders and that was the case in Croatia and Bosnia when it came to removing Serbs. That said, Shatila and Sheabra was not a war crime either because the Palestinians were terrorists. Z Victor Alpha (talk) 21:04, 12 February 2010 (UTC)


 * The only potential sockpuppet here is you; most brand-new users don't even know what a sockpuppet is or why it is generally not allowed. -- Local hero talk 21:15, 12 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Z Victor, who ever you may be, I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt and discuss with you your points. First, I will not entertain a forum-based argument based on the bulk of your remarks, all of which are spurious. You do however have one fair point. We had a list of operations listed as war crimes when the operation itself was not - as you rightly claim - a war crime. Never the less, two things have to be taken into account. The first is that all war crimes are the products of operations of some kind, or the military would not have been involved in the first place; and second, those operations you have removed did in some way lead to incidents regarded as war crimes. As for the Lebanese event of 1982, I am afraid you are in a minority of one when you denounce that was an incident against terrorists. Evlekis (talk) 21:36, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Thankyou. We have your support then. Neutral Solution 100 (talk) 21:46, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I take it "we" favour the removals? If so, no you don't have my full support. I say we can review the sections, not wipe out entire sections. Evlekis (talk) 21:48, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Note Z Victor Alpha and Neutral Solution 100 are both sockpuppets of the same user. Z Victor Alpha is currently blocked. JamesBWatson (talk) 22:51, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
 * How stupid of him/them to behave in such a juvenile way. I was ready to back up one or two of his/their proposals. Pointless now. Evlekis (talk) 22:59, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Z Victor Alpha, Neutral Solution 100 and few more are blocked indef as a socks of WP:DE vandal. --Tadija (talk) 20:23, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Allies crimes
I see under Soviet Union perpetrated crimes Expulsion of Germans after World War II should this be included with the other allies as wel, they did nothing to stop it?86.87.73.104 (talk) 17:49, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Redirected from US_war_crimes?
I'm no wikipedia editor, but I was directed to this page from US_war_crimes. This is a list of all war crimes (kind of). Shouldn't US_war_crimes link to War_crimes_committed_by_the_United_States?

GeorgieFruit (talk) 22:33, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Crimes against peace and crimes against humanity in an article about war crimes?
I've noticed that many of the events mentioned in this article aren't actually war crimes (as one would expect in an article named "List of war crimes"), but crimes against peace and crimes against humanity. Quite honestly I do not see any reason why anything but war crimes should be mentioned in an article about war crimes. If someone wants to bring attention to the numerous crimes against peace that have been committed in the past, that someone should make an article titled "List of crimes against peace". It's that simple. Anyways, I would like to hear some opinions, so this article can be improved, and unrelated stuff be moved somewhere where it would fit better. --Raubfreundschaft (talk) 17:25, 25 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I agree take this example:
 * Novi Sad massacre -> Crimes against humanity; Crime of genocide (murder of civilians, ethnic cleansing)
 * There was no crime of genocide at the time. Ethnic cleansing is not a crime, but often mass murder rape etc are crimes that accompany ethnic cleansing, and what is now genocide was in times of war was covered by breaches of the laws of war if carried out against enemy civilians.
 * This article has for years been rife with OR. For example take the entry for the Armenian Genocide, although many crimes including mass killing of Armenians took place (unless one says it was during a civil war, which most advocates of a genocide refute) then they were not a war crimes. This is explained by Telford Taylor When people kill a people, New York Times, March 28, 1982. "But the laws of war do not cover, in time of either war or peace, a government's actions against its own nationals (such as Nazi Germany's persecution of German Jews). And at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, the tribunals rebuffed several efforts by the prosecution to bring such 'domestic' atrocities within the scope of international law as 'crimes against humanity.'". Since he wrote that in 1982 the scope of international law has been expanded (see Responsibility to protect), but many of the crime listed here are not war crimes, or if war crimes, (such as the mass killing of enemy civilians) not criminal genocide, although they may be crimes against humanity, it depends on the findings of the courts. -- PBS (talk) 20:27, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Cesar Vidal as source of Spanish History
Cesar Vidal should not be cosnidered as a primary source in any way. He is not a historian, but a journalist who writes about history, their studies lack of rigurosity and no serious historian take them in account. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.60.30.35 (talk) 09:52, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Salina, Utah POW massacre
Dresden is not included but the Salina, Utah POW massacre is? The POW massacre was carried out by one nutter......it was not part of a program, it was not ordered by anyone, and it was stopped by other US personnel immediately. That was not a war crime that can be ascribed to the "US" in any way, it was one dude. The decision on what to include and what to exclude seems a little flaky here. Take off Salina and add Dresden maybe? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.144.28.156 (talk) 15:19, 7 July 2007‎ (UTC)

Korean war
There isn t anithyng about war crimes in Korea. In both sides there was murders and massacres. US killed at least 180 reefuges in village of No Gun Ri. Someone must write something about this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.210.254.224 (talk) 15:36, 10 October 2007‎ (UTC)

Proposed list of crimes eligible for inclusion
I think this is a pretty comprehensive list of the crimes as laid out by the customary international law, and the treaties of 4th Hague, 3rd Geneva, 4th Geneva, the Geneva Protocol, the Genocide Convention, and the authoritative and binding decision of the International Military Tribunal creating the Nuremberg Precedent.
 * Crimes against peace
 * Crimes against peace: Waging a war of aggression for territorial aggrandizement
 * Crimes against peace: Initiation of unlawful armed conflict for purposes other than territorial aggrandizement
 * Crime of genocide
 * Crime of genocide: general extermination
 * Crime of genocide: pogroms (selective extermination)
 * Crime of genocide: forced deportation (ethnic cleansing)
 * Crime of genocide: organized persecution
 * Crime of torture
 * Crime of torture: Upon civilians
 * Crime of torture: Upon combatants (lawful, unlawful, and/or terrorists)
 * Crime of slavery
 * Crime of slavery: Crime of slaving (trade in slaves)
 * Crime of slavery: Crime of slave ownership
 * Crime of slavery: Forced or unfree labor, in violation of the law of nations
 * Crime of slavery: Trafficking in persons
 * Crime of environmental modification
 * Crimes against humanity
 * Crimes against humanity: Slavery and/or forced labor
 * Crimes against humanity: Crime of torture
 * Crimes against humanity: Willful killing of noncombatants
 * Crimes against humanity: Human experimentation
 * Crimes against humanity: Use of gravely disproportionate force without military necessity
 * Crimes against humanity: Abuse/desecration of remains
 * Crimes against humanity: Wanton destruction/desecration of cultural heritage objects without military necessity
 * Crimes against humanity: Taking of hostages
 * Crimes against humanity: Execution or other maltreatment of hostages
 * Crimes against humanity: Abuses of protected persons
 * Crimes against humanity: Attacks upon the Red Cross, the Red Crescent, and/or Magen David Adom (Red Crystal)
 * Crimes against humanity: Attacks upon other bona-fide clearly identified humanitarian workers
 * Crimes against humanity: Destruction of civilian property without military necessity
 * Crimes against humanity: Collective punishment
 * Use of poisons as weapons
 * Use of poisons as weapons: Upon civilians
 * Use of poisons as weapons: Upon civilian property
 * Use of poisons as weapons: Upon combatants
 * Use of poisons as weapons: Upon combatant property
 * Offenses against the law of nations
 * Offenses against the law of nations: Piracy (maritime)
 * Offenses against the law of nations: Outrages upon persons holding diplomatic rank
 * Offenses against the law of nations: Outrages upon persons holding consular rank
 * War crimes
 * War crimes: Refusal of POW status
 * War crimes: Refusal of quarter
 * War crimes: Refusal of unconditional surrender
 * War crimes: Violations of the Geneva Convention (e.g. POW camp not to spec, requiring officers to do manual labor, failure to allow Red Cross inspections, failure to allow POWs to wear uniforms and be treated with dignity of their rank, taking or appropriation of possessions, etc, etc, etc, et al.)
 * War crimes: Perfidy - failure to bear arms openly (upon initiation of combat)
 * War crimes: Perfidy - failure to wear a fixed distinguishing mark visible at a distance (upon initiation of combat)
 * War crimes: Perfidy - failure to have a regular command structure or chain of command (upon initiation of combat)
 * War crimes: Deliberate misclassification of lawful combatants as non-POWs
 * War crimes: Deliberate misclassification of lawful partisan combatants as non-POWs
 * War crimes: Abuse of the flag of truce
 * War crimes: Abuse of the wounded and injured
 * War crimes: Abuse of remains
 * War crimes: Punishment or execution of POWs for escape
 * War crimes: Trial of POWs for crimes
 * War crimes: Cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment of enemy POWs
 * War crimes: Use of inherently cruel weapons (e.g. dum-dum bullets)
 * War crimes: Use of gravely disproportionate force vastly outweighing military necessity
 * War crimes: Human experimentation upon POWs

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Katana0182 (talk • contribs) 05:14, 21 August 2009‎ (UTC)

The list goes on and on, doesn't it? God help us all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.23.105.146 (talk) 08:56, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Crimes by the indian army in Kashmir?
There are millions, it's going to be hard to find them because Google is acting gay atm, but I've come accross many on Defence forums online. Someone with more knowledge please do this... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.49.8.148 (talk) 16:34, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned references in List of war crimes
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of List of war crimes's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "BBC_catandmouse": From Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Patience, Martin. "Playing cat and mouse with Gaza rockets." BBC News. 28 February 2008. From Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel: Martin Patience, Playing cat and mouse with Gaza rockets, BBC News 28-02-2008 

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 18:56, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

NPOV: Israeli–Palestinian conflict
I have added a NPOV flag to this section for a number of reasons as follow:

1) Lack of Israeli lead incidents such as Al-Dawayima_massacre

2)Abnormal placement implying increased importance despite page being ordered chronologically.

3)Non-governmental bodies as perpetrators who are not de facto authority in the area.

4)Implied disavowing of Israeli crimes in the Perpetrator section, that simply states "Various Palestinian militant groups."

Otonabee (talk) 01:42, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
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 * If editors feel there are still issues here that need to be resolved, please feel free to restore the tag and continue discussion/editing to resolve them. Cheers! -- Khazar2 (talk) 14:43, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Geneva Convention 1929 articles 3 and 4
While I agree with the changing of the Geneva convention. I think that the new text involves some original research so I am going to alter it. My concern is with quote "After each engagement, the occupant of the field of battle shall take measures to search for the wounded and dead, and to protect them against pillage and maltreatment." unless the author specifically quoted that section which is from [http://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/ART/300-420007?OpenDocument Art. 3], then I think it should be removed because I think the wording in '[http://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&documentId=38A8D81292F7F0A8C12563CD00518A99 Art. 4] is more pertinent: "They shall further ensure that the dead are honourably interred, that their graves are respected and marked so that they may always be found". -- PBS (talk) 15:03, 28 May 2013 (UTC)


 * I found an online copy of the citation that was used:
 * It contained quote used and cites:
 * for the quotation. So I have put back the original quote but have added a footnote with the ICRC version of the text.
 * -- PBS (talk) 16:00, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
 * for the quotation. So I have put back the original quote but have added a footnote with the ICRC version of the text.
 * -- PBS (talk) 16:00, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

America War crimes during WWII
Why weren't the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the firebombings added to the war crime list? I know for a fact that the US violated at least 1 law from the Hague Convention (1907). Article 25(Section IV): “The attack or bombardment, by whatever means, of towns, villages, dwellings, or buildings which are undefended is prohibited.” and "In sieges and bombardments all necessary steps must be taken to spare, as far as possible, buildings dedicated to religion, art, science, or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals, and places where the sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not being used at the time for military purposes." Pretty much, mass murder of civilians and destruction of important property. --Akemi Mokoto (talk) 14:32, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Aye, its a good point until you realize Japan waived that right in the signing of the 1951 Treaty of San Francisco. Ryuichi Shimoda v. The State is the case in which you want to read for it. The bombs did target military centers, but the size of the explosion was so great as to wipe out the surrounding urban area as per its intention. The Japanese government waived the rights to appeal on those grounds, so yes, the act constituted a war crime in the eyes of the Japanese government but it cannot bring a case. Consequentially, the intent of the bombings and the records, see Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, show that it was known the damage would be great. Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for more as well. Either way, you can allege all you want, but you have to bring it to the courts and the Japanese government formally waived that right long after the war was over, in 1951. As such, it cannot be prosecuted and a conviction by a court needs to be done before it can be recognized as such. The case cannot be brought and thus the claim of it being a war crime is limited to the free individuals and not the national one. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 15:07, 23 April 2013 (UTC)


 * This topic has been discussed extensively here already. I would suggest looking though the discussion archives and then, if you still desire, revisiting the topic. TomPointTwo (talk) 21:05, 23 April 2013 (UTC)


 * User:Akemi Loli Mokoto it is just not true that it is "a fact" that the US violated at least 1 law from the Hague Convention (1907), and this is a good example of why it is better to rely on third party expert sources than on your own reading of treaties. The treaty you which you refer is titled "Convention respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land" and does not cover navel or aerial warfare. If the atomic bombs had been delivered from a ship then Hague IX "Convention concerning Bombardment by Naval Forces in Time of War" would have been applicable. The Wikipedia article aerial bombardment and international law explains the state of international law at the time of the Second World War. -- PBS (talk) 16:17, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Chemical warfare in WWI did not violate Hague convention
See Talk:Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 where I have proposed the the entry on this be removed from this article. -- PBS (talk) 11:26, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Abu Ghraib entry
"These acts were committed by military police personnel of the United States Army together with additional US governmental agencies"

other agencies - besides the fact that the reference link is broken, the reference is titled "Other Agencies?" - note the question mark. It is speculation.

Jwalter (talk) 07:22, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Recent edits
, can you explain the deletion of this text? The Sabra and Shatlia deletion seems indefensible. And whilst the reduction of the Gaza section is reasonable, you did it in an extremely biased fashion - we should reflect the relative weighting of Israeli and Hamas war crimes, not your own preference. Oncenawhile (talk) 09:20, 26 August 2015 (UTC)


 * If I deleted Sabra and "Shatlia", it was an accident. I meant to change it from "crime against humanity" to "war crime", since it was not a crime against humanity unless there were many other massacres like it with the same motivation. And I didn't mean to show any bias in the "Israel vs. Hamas" bit. If you want I can delete the part about Hamas. --Monochrome  _ Monitor  18:32, 26 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Oh, I see what you mean. I did delete a sentence, but I intended to replace it with something more specific and cited. Twas an accident. --Monochrome _ Monitor  18:34, 26 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Also, you're wrong about "relative weighting". Even the guy who wrote the Goldstone report said that while Israel didn't intentionally target civilians, Hamas did. Even the article about the Goldstone report has a tag saying the section about Hamas crimes needs to be expanded. I get what you're trying to say though. The due weight given by the media? By wikipedians? Got it. --Monochrome _ Monitor  18:42, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

US WAR CRIMES ?
Just google: "list of US war crimes"! There are millions of people who were killed in US war crimes! But, you have given a small, very small place for US crimes... and very large place for one hunderd Serbian victims in Croatia were 1 500 000 Serbs have been killed ( Jasenovac)! Thus, this article is a manipulative, incorrect article! Sorry. you have to work it ! More Truth, less maniopulations, please! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.227.244.217 (talk) 12:53, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

criteria for adding
This list contains both verified and alleged war crimes. They should be separated — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.204.250.2 (talk) 23:07, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

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