“You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans - my fellow veterans - whose future you stole.” MayWarEyeYoungJusticeCrimeMurderFellowsIncludingGuiltyVeteranPlunderWar Crimes Author:Thomas Young
“It's about the climate-change "denial industry", ...we should have war crimes trials for these bastards - some sort of climate Nuremberg.” ShouldWarCrimeIndustryShould HaveClimateClimate ChangeTrialsDenialWar CrimesNurembergClimate Change DenialClimate Change Deniers Author:David Roberts
“Has the international criminal court avoided opening an investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza due to political pressure. The answer is an unequivocal “no”. As prosecutor of the ICC, I reject any suggestion of this in the strongest terms.” WarPoliticalTermAnswersCrimePressureCourtInternationalDuesCriminalsOpeningRejectsStrongestInvestigationSuggestionsAvoidedGazaProsecutorWar CrimesUnequivocal Author:Fatou Bensouda
“The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.” WarCrimeStupidParticularBritishProductiveBombingWar CrimesD Day Author:Antony Beevor
“There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.” TryingWarCrimeShotsTrialsPrisonerConventionsWar CrimesGenevaGeneva Convention Author:Charles Guggenheim
“A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live.” LifeDoeWarPainCausesAnimalEnemyViolenceCrimeIndustryCivilizationCreaturesDeserveRidiculousTolerateCircusLaboratoryDeservingFurCivil SocietyTolerationWar CrimesActs Of ViolenceSlaughterhousesAnimal AbuseVivisectionFussyInfliction Author:Savitri Devi
“The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.” WarLossMillionsToo MuchCrimeEmotionalSixAccountsPrejudiceDataDefeatedTestimonyExaggeratedBiasedReckoningWar Crimes Author:Franjo Tuđman
“There seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes.” Has BeensWarSeemsLawStrongCrimePossibilityAmountInternationalHumanitarianWar CrimesHumanitarian Law Author:Navi Pillay
“What has happened here [aftermath of 9/11] is not war in its traditional sense. This is clearly a crime against humanity. War crimes are crimes which happen in war time. There is a confusion there. This is a crime against humanity because it is deliberate and intentional killing of large numbers of civilians for political or other purposes. That is not tolerable under the international systems. And it should be prosecuted pursuant to the existing laws.” ShouldWarHappensLawPoliticalPurposeHumanityPoliticsNumbersHappenedCrimeKillingInternationalConfusionTraditionalDeliberateCiviliansLarge NumbersAftermathTolerableWar CrimesCrimes Against HumanityWar Time Author:Benjamin B. Ferencz
“Despite [] promises, I am concerned that there has been no discernible progress in the case. Equally concerning is the fact that Goran Radosavljevic, the commander of the facility where the Bytyqi's were murdered, remains a close advisor to the current government.... I call upon the Serbian government to also aspire to new heights in its own processing of war crimes from the 1990's and to finally ensure justice in the Bytyqi case.” Has BeensWarFactsGovernmentJusticeCasesProgressCrimePromiseConcernedRemainsCurrentsDespiteHeightAspireFacilityCommandersProcessingWar CrimesAdvisors Author:Lee Zeldin
“That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.” HumansWarGrowsChanceGrowing UpPathFateRightsCrimeHuman RightsEducatedWar CrimesSri Lanka Author:Michael Ondaatje
“Let's put it this way. I question whether 6 million Jews actually died in Nazi death camps. There are two major sources for Holocaust stories. One is the Nuremburg war-crimes trial, which has been shown by all honest historians to be a farce of justice. Another source is the great body of literature and media work, and at least 90% of that material is from biased Jewish sources.” WayHas BeensTwoWarStoriesBodyLiteratureJusticeMillionsHonestMediaCrimeMaterialsSourceMajorsDiedJewTrialsCampsHistorianHolocaustNaziBiasedFarceWar CrimesKu Klux KlanDeath Camps Author:David Duke
“The concept of war crimes is an American invention.” WarCrimeConceptsInventionWar Crimes Author:George Wald
“No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.” PeopleWellsDoeWarMatterJobsSufferingCausesCrimeBattleGunMachinesUnnecessaryWar CrimesMachine GunsUnnecessary Suffering Author:Sebastian Junger