How to Use war crime in a Sentence

war crime

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Definition of war crimenext
  • So war crime tri charges were filed against Vidic in 1994.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 July 2023
  • In the first war crime case brought to trial, Russian Sgt.
    — Oleksandr Stashevskyi and David Keyton, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2022
  • With the specter of war crimes charges now hanging over the Israel-Hamas war, so too are questions.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
  • This is the first time ever that the department has filed charges under the U.S. war crimes statute.
    — Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 6 Dec. 2023
  • In the months that followed, knowledge of Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine spread rapidly across the world.
    — Mariia Hlyten, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Committing war crimes is half the allure to some games.
    — WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
  • And at least one worked with Smith in The Hague, where he was tasked with charging Kosovo war crimes starting in 2018.
    — Perry Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Just ten per cent said that Hamas had committed war crimes.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Human rights advocates called the killings a war crime.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The trial marks the first time the ICC has tried the destruction of cultural heritage as a war crime.
    — CNN, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Of the two dozen people against whom the ICC has pursued war crimes cases, about a third remain at large.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Europe, 18 June 2024
  • Human rights groups say the destruction of civilian homes and farms could amount to war crimes.
    — Jonathan Baran, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
  • This is not the first time concerns about war crimes have been raised amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
    — Anna Gordon, TIME, 11 June 2024
  • Vidic in 1994 was charged with committing a war crime for Komes’ death in a Croatian court in Sisak.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The forcible transfer of children can constitute a grave war crime.
    — ABC News, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Russia denies the charge, which is a potential war crime.
    — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Thus the United States is complicit in Israel’s war crimes.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • There is not a shred of doubt that these blatant acts of aggression fit the legal criteria of war crimes.
    — Foreign Affairs, 27 Oct. 2023
  • And if that country is engaged in war crimes, its representatives shouldn’t be allowed to play games with the rest of the world.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
  • This enabled the regime to starve civilian populations under the control of rebel forces, a war crime.
    — David Adesnik, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Then, a couple of years after the war, the public appetite for prosecuting big war crimes waned in Britain, Mr. Glees said.
    — Claire Moses, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • The developments — a major Ukrainian loss in the south and war crime trials in the midst of fighting — highlight the complex terrain of the war, which is now in its 13th week.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
  • Human Rights Watch has said Russia is committing a war crime by doing so.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Western officials have joined Kyiv in branding many of these actions war crimes.
    — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
  • Those were the first war crime charges the country has filed since hundreds of bodies were discovered in the northwest suburb of Kyiv after Russian forces left the area.
    — Madeline Halpert, Forbes, 13 May 2022
  • Gallant went on to invoke rhetoric that rights groups claimed was tantamount to announcing war crimes.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Now, the calls are also potential evidence for war crimes.
    — Erika Kinetz, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The court has convicted five men of war crimes and crimes against humanity, all African militia leaders.
    — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 7 July 2024
  • In addition to war crimes, the ICC is investigating crimes against humanity and genocide.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Europe, 18 June 2024
  • Smith, a career prosecutor who is not registered with either political party, led war crimes cases at The Hague before his appointment and has never been a political appointee.
    — Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 7 June 2024

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