How to Use war crime in a Sentence

war crime

noun
  • He was found guilty of torture and other war crimes.
  • 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
  • Left-wing human rights groups have argued that the removal of the village may amount to a war crime.
    Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 11 July 2018
  • 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
  • Israel has been accused of committing war crimes in its three wars in the Gaza Strip in the last decade.
    Ilan Ben Zion, Jewish Journal, 13 June 2018
  • 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
  • Any move to unify Jerusalem would be considered a war crime.
    Eugene Kontorovich, WSJ, 13 May 2018
  • 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
  • Assad, who is accused of war crimes against his own people, fled to Russia and left a highly fractured country behind him.
    Natasha Turak, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Assad has been accused of war crimes against his own people during the Syrian civil war, in which hundreds of thousands have been killed.
    Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 9 Dec. 2024

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