General Article War crimes

Topic Selected: War and Conflict Book Volume: 401
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Background

Even though the prohibition of certain behaviour in the conduct of armed conflict can be traced back many centuries, the concept of war crimes developed particularly at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, when...

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