Example sentences for: war-crimes

How can you use “war-crimes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Since World War II, many have clamored for a permanent international war-crimes tribunal to enforce the conventions.

  • In the process of arresting two Serb officials indicted by a U.N.-administered war-crimes tribunal on the charge of operating concentration camps, the NATO peacekeepers killed one in a gun battle.

  • The model for an international war-crimes tribunal is the Nuremberg trials , established by Allied victors in Germany to try the 24 highest-ranking Nazis . Their crimes included the "deliberate instigation of aggressive wars," the extermination of racial and religious groups, and the murder and mistreatment of prisoners of war.

  • Why has the United States resisted the establishment of a permanent war-crimes tribunal?

  • Soon after war broke out in the former Yugoslavia in 1991, the United Nations used a previously obscure section of its charter to convene the first international war-crimes tribunal since Nuremberg and Tokyo.


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