The international community’s renunciation and criminalization of aggressive wars resulted from a conscious law reform project inspired by two costly world wars. A recommendation from the International Law Commission at the United Nations, if ratified, may undo this precedent.
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Re: The Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial “Another View: Hold Putin to account for war crimes” (April 8): The Russian invasion of Ukraine is, in itself, a war crime. Any war of aggression is a “crime against peace” as embodied in Nuremberg Principle VI. It also appears Russian forces have engaged in various war crimes including […]
The International Criminal Court announced it was investigating possible war crimes in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In the first war crimes case, in 1474, Burgundian knight Sir Peter von Hagenbach led a campaign of terror on innocent civilians that ended in a precedent-setting judgment.