War Crimes. ( What is a War Crime ? )
War crimes are “serious violations of customary or treaty rules belonging to the corpus of international humanitarian law”[2] and can occur in both international and non-international armed conflicts. They have been included into many treaties of several international tribunals, and the International Criminal Court (ICC) classifies them as such:
“War crimes” include grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict and in conflicts "not of an international character" listed in the Rome Statute, when they are committed as part of a plan or policy or on a large scale. These prohibited acts include:
-murder;
-mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;
-taking of hostages;
-intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population;
-intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historical monuments or hospitals;
-pillaging;
-rape, sexual slavery, forced pregnancy or any other form of sexual violence;
-conscripting or enlisting children under the age of 15 years into armed forces or groups or using them to participate actively in hostilities.
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