Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Incubator/War crimes

Welcome to the war crimes group, an initiative of the Military history WikiProject.

Purpose & scope
This task force exists to coordinate efforts at creating and improving articles in the proposed scope: Eligibility:
 * 1) Any war crimes, massacres, or other crimes that occur as part of an armed conflict.
 * 2) National and international law that defines and regulates the above.
 * 3) Articles about any person or organization whose association with the above is a defining characteristic according to reliable sources.
 * 4) History and historiography of the above.
 * 5) Memorials and depictions of the above in all media, such as music, film, poetry, and prose.
 * 1) Articles that are about an armed conflict or battle during which war crimes occurred are not in scope.
 * 2) Articles which deal with the period before the 1899 Hague Convention are not in scope.

Participants

 * buidhe 21:57, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Gog the Mild (talk) 22:06, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
 * --Antidiskriminator (talk) 23:17, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Dunutubble (talk) 23:21, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Other tasks

 * Top-priority articles for improvement:
 * Genocide
 * Genocide Convention
 * War crimes
 * Crimes against humanity
 * International criminal law
 * International Criminal Court
 * Children in the military

Resources

 * Example articles
 * Perpetrators:
 * Individuals: Albert Speer, Artur Phleps , August Meyszner
 * Groups: Police Regiment South, Nazi SS
 * Rescuers: Karl Plagge
 * Crimes: The Holocaust in Slovakia
 * Massacre: Kragujevac massacre
 * Concentration camp: Flossenbürg concentration camp
 * Legal issue: Canadian Afghan detainee issue
 * Investigation: International Criminal Court investigation in Kenya
 * Trial ?
 * Historiography: Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, myth of the clean Wehrmacht
 * Resources