How to Use war crime in a Sentence
war crime
noun- He was found guilty of torture and other war crimes.
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So war crime tri charges were filed against Vidic in 1994.
— Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 July 2023 -
His forces are bogged down and accused of war crimes in Yemen.
— Ben Hubbard, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2019 -
In the first war crime case brought to trial, Russian Sgt.
— Oleksandr Stashevskyi and David Keyton, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2022 -
Gallagher in July was found not guilty of all but one of the war crimes charges against him.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2019 -
The way the United States has treated Iran over the past three years is an abominable war crime.
— Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 27 Mar. 2020 -
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 -
After the war, Pernkopf spent three years in an Allied prison camp but was not charged with war crimes.
— Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 12 May 2020 -
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 -
President Trump just pardoned me, too, for the war crimes.
— Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 18 Nov. 2019 -
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 -
It is remembered in China today as a war crime on par with the Nazi death camps.
— Ian Buruma, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022 -
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 -
Bell stressed that the torture of Ukrainian POWs constitutes a war crime.
— John Bacon, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2024 -
Britain called the attack on a children’s hospital a war crime.
— Vgeniy Maloletka, chicagotribune.com, 10 Mar. 2022 -
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 -
The verdict is already in: Israel is guilty as charged, of every manner of war crime and abuse.
— WSJ, 3 Jan. 2022 -
The Dance of the Dragons has already seen war crimes, child murder and the demise of majestic creatures once revered as gods.
— Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2024 -
Well, rape and torture is a war crime, and people who perpetrate these acts have to be brought to trial.
— Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 16 June 2021 -
Russia denies the charge, which is a potential war crime.
— New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022 -
He’s also shown support for members of the military accused of war crimes and criticized the military’s justice system.
— Jason Dearen, Chicago Tribune, 15 Nov. 2024 -
Almost all of the ship's crew were lost in the sinking, although war crimes trials convened after the war revealed that a handful of survivors had been picked up by the Japanese fleet, only to later be executed.
— Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2024
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