War Crimes Quotes - Page 3

• 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.

  Sebastian Junger

  Jobs, War, Gun

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• 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.

  Charles Guggenheim

  War, Trying, Trials

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Savitri Devi

  Life, Pain, War

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• 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.

  Lee Zeldin

  War, Government, Justice

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• 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.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Growing Up, War, Fate

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• 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.

  David Duke

  War, Media, Two

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• The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

  Antony Beevor

  War, Stupid, D Day

  "Antony Beevor says D-Day bombing 'close to a war crime'" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2009.

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• The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.

  Warren Christopher

  Country, War, United States

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• 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.

  Fatou Bensouda

  War, Political, Criminals

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• We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.

  George Wald

  War, Interesting, Principles

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• It should not be hard to say that Vladimir Putin's military has conducted war crimes in Aleppo because it is never acceptable for military to specifically target civilians, which is what's happened there, through the Russian military.

  Marco Rubio

  Military, War, Target

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• When you have airplanes with precision weapons, striking hospitals in Aleppo and slaughtering innocent men, women and children, you're committing a war crime. So we need more sanctions against Russia. We should not relax them.

  John McCain

  Children, War, Airplane

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• In fact, various lawyers' groups - to some extent in the U.S. but mostly in England and Canada and elsewhere - are bringing demands for a war crimes trial for the crime of aggression. However, though the invasion of Iraq was plainly an act of aggression, it doesn't break any records.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Iraq, Invasion

  Source: progressive.org

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