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War Crimes - Science topic
War Crimes are criminal acts committed during, or in connection with, war, e.g., maltreatment of prisoners, willful killing of civilians, etc.
Questions related to War Crimes
How can humans commit such massive and horrifying wars to the extent that millions of people die without exaggeration? No matter how aggressive or selfish humans can be, this does not justify such horrific acts. Not only do tens of thousands of people die, but they also often die in brutal ways, as seen in events like Hiroshima or what continues to happen today in Gaza.
Even if humans have sadistic or aggressive tendencies, such actions seem illogical for beings like us. I believe this phenomenon goes deeper than we can perceive. For instance, animals, while possessing a level of consciousness (albeit not as advanced as humans), do not commit atrocities on this scale.
In nature, stronger animals may prey on weaker ones, driven by survival instincts. Some animals even fight within their o
wn species, but not in the same catastrophic way humans do.
Humans, too, have survival instincts that drive them to act against external threats. Could it be that because humans are considered the dominant species on this planet, with little external threats to their survival, they redirect this aggression and survival instinct toward their own kind? Is it possible that this phenomenon is connected to a universal or natural principle where there must always be a higher power or a looming threat for balance?
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After all, arrest werrent has been Issues with War Crime Conviction. However, the suffering of the victims and the death of their loved ones was not prevented.
Heartbreaking, such suffering continued and we watched on.
Surely we could and still can take better action for better and fairer world.
I attached my last book on Israel - Palestine solution I proposed.
Regards,
World of people, most and majority playing bad politics with Gaza people, helpless Gaza people are put under the Bombardments, by Hamas, Cruelly been bombarded by cruel Israeli military, and Muslims playing competitions against Israelis, Muslims are adamant to defeat Israelis when Israelis are rigid and sharp on mission against Gaza Muslims. In all this Gaza helpless people are under the attacks and suffering..
Cruels, careless, warmongers, and playful groups from every directions, gazing at Gaza, and and holding Gaza people tightened -down as the dart 🎯 board, and world of people targeted on it, some hitting on it and all watching the aim and results. Allah Allah...
I don't care about I am not being liked. I say it is wrong Gaza people not been moved out. My heart pumps hard, my body shakes. I cannot be for in the game Gaza people made the game play, target point. For peace sake, for safe settlement Gaza people relocation is good move. Gaza isn't Muslims Holy land anyway. They say they fighting Holy war. Holy war for what? Land by seaside?
No one thought about to talk for negotiation land plan.
Do they really think they will force Jews out of there or will kill all the Jews ??? What???
Is Israel is cruel and crook minded, Zionists' Government. There USA standing with fuel worse cruelly fuelling the fire.
Since Israel has been mandated state there, Arab League accepted Israel as an state. To stop the conflict, Muslim nations must have talked about to resolve with land plan, to make boundaries for separate states.
Crushner of USA, want Gaza to make coastal tourists resort, Muslims Holding weak bleeding injured Gaza people, unduly fighting world's super power USA. By force pushing people out of homeland is ethnic cleansing, though through talk, by plan relocation for peace and political negotiation is called the resolution.
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Fatema Miah
acta jure imperii, state sovereign immunity, genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, military occupation, property rights, civil tort law, jurisdiction, right to a fair trial.
The best way to create a whole generation of terrorists is to warn them (and not kill them as they did in the old days not too long ago) before dropping bombs on their homes and workplace. And then people wonder why the unemployment rate is so high in Gaza. Who is in charge over there?
It can’t be Netanyahu who at The Hague would say truthfully, “I had nothing to do with the genocide, Hamas made me do it.”
And Hamas would reply truthfully at The Hague: “I had nothing to do with the genocide, Israel made me do it.”
When Norman Finkelstein, an anti-war activist and intellectual (Princeton PhD, 1988), was asked what his mother, who was in the Majdanek concentration camp in Europe during WWII, thought of retaliation on civilians for crimes committed by Hitler her response was, “Since they elected him they are totally responsible for his actions and therefore deserve to be punished.” (But keep in mind that the dictatorship occurred after the election). If the ‘Finkelstein’ rule were applied to Gaza, then there should be no slaughter of civilians since the Gazans live under a Hamas dictatorship; once elected almost two decade ago (in 2006), Hamas has assumed total power of the strip and they have built a military infrastructure (e.g., 500 Km of tunneling) while Israel has denied basic services to the Gazan people, who live in a concentration camp; but since the only way out is by tunnel controlled by Hamas, Gazans are used as shields against Israeli attacks, which this time might cause the death of over 100,000 civilians given the invasion has yet to start and the number of dead is already over 7,000. I say The Hague needs to do something about all this killing of both Palestinians and Israelis by Netanyahu and Hamas. But don’t expect much since the US who is not an International Criminal Court member and who has veto power in the UN has been committing war crimes for a long time (Henry Kissinger of the Vietnam war era is not free to travel just anywhere even at 100 years of age) and you all know the many cases of crimes committed in the name of freedom….Israel is merely a mini-partner in these crimes along with Hamas and its backers from Iran/Russia, all war criminals as well. In short we must ask, “Why are we allowing war criminals to run the world?”
Since the Ukrainian/Russo war began the tendency has been for some observers to say, albeit rhetorically, change will happen in Russia when its people know of the war crimes. But what if they know, and don't care?
I want to understand if there is any research telling the accuracy of AI tools when investigating human rights violations and war crimes
I am currently researching an criminal responsibility of legal persons (corporations) under international criminal law (decision of Special Tribunal for Lebanon). I know that never ever such responsibility was drawn in history of int. crim. law, but now I thinking about domestic level. Do you know any case where such responsibility of legal person was drawn on national level for crimes under international law such as war crimes or crimes against humanity? Thank you very much.
Aggression is one of the core international crimes as Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and war crimes.
On White Supremacy:
The obsession as to whether human-kind is fundamentally bad or good has preoccupied scholars for millennia. This can be traced back to the Catholic theologian, Augustine (354-430), who believed that men and women are basically bad, all born into original sin, and therefore require close supervision by which to cleanse their souls. In the enlightened age, intellectuals such as Rousseau (1712-1778) came up with the counter argument defending the premise that human-kind is basically good, an ethos that has been adopted by many liberal societies of today even if only by lip-service. We know that if one wants an economy that is maximally uncreative and unproductive, totalitarianism (left or right driven) is the best political system by which to achieve this. Here a minority of the population under its leadership employs all the state’s resources to control the majority under the assumption that the majority has ‘bad habits’ that must be altered and if not possible contained using police-state tactics. Such a society is unsustainable, as we witnessed with the disintegration of the Soviet Union in December 1991.
So, what about White Supremacy. This viewpoint has a long history in the United State going back to the age of slavery [1620 to 1865] when Black people (including their children) were sold and killed like cattle. At its zenith in 1860, some 13% of the US population, 4 million people of a population of 31 million, were enslaved. Shortly after the passage of the 13th Amendment (which was meant to end slavery in 1865) segments of the White population resisted this policy by forming the Ku Klux Klan who adopted an Augustine-viewpoint that led to the mass lynching of mainly Black males that continued well into the mid-20th Century. According to the Equal Justice Initiative (2017), 4084 African-Americans were lynched between 1877 and 1950, mainly in the Southern United States. In the 1960’s three acts were passed by Congress to remedy this bad history: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968.
Now let us fast forward to the Age of Trump (2016-2020). Donald Trump, an Independent, became a Republican so that he could win the presidential election in November 2016. His madness, which includes racism, bigotry, and contempt for women, is expressed regularly via Twitter and Fox News. This madness has now been amplified by the recent killing of an African American man, George Floyd, who was caught on camera being suffocated by a Minneapolis police officer. With Christian Bible in hand and in front of St. Johns church in Washington DC, Trump declared (much like Hitler did during his rallies in the 30 and 40’s) that he would impose law and order on the masses who are protesting the killing of George Floyd. So far, 10,000 protesters have been arrested by police (Aljazeera, June 4, 2020). The ~ 25,000 White Supremacist of America are standing by to see whether Trump can create an opportunity for them to return America to its roots: by having a large segment of the population (mainly immigrant and non-White) be put under the control of a White minority to satisfy (unbeknown to them) the dictates of the Catholic theologian, Augustine (354-430). If you believe in humanity and its sustainability, you can never allow this to happen since this is a recipe to continuous warfare, much like what goes on in the Middle East today.
Biologists agree that all normal children have tendency to help and be sociable and are curious to learn . It seems like there is a little voice that guide them. However; growing up ; a second voice comes to compete with the first one and adults become more selfish, competition between people becomes normal and crimes and wars are our daily news. What happened to us? Why this dangerous change? Any way to solve this?
Please share your ideas.
Am planning research on moral injury but am having difficulties getting ethics approval out of fear that war crimes might be disclosed in the interview process. Any information or strategies appreciated.
I am writing about my father's ordeals during WW2. He was captured in Serbia and was held for 3.5 years in German Stalags for POWs in Germany and France. I am especially interested in Stalag 12F (Forbach), 12E (Metz), 12D (Trier), 12A (Diez, near Limburg)and Saarburg - hospital for POWs from France, Serbia and Italy. Also will help me - anything on Serbian soldiers POWs.
Many thanks!!
I am interested in knowing about movements' and (I)NGOs' direct involvement in achieving peace and (arguably) justice in the wake of crimes against humanity, war crimes and/or systematic breaches of fundamental human rights.
Thank you!
(BY REQUEST, RE-OPENED). This is a social question, with immediate technical relevance. Cybersecurity, for example, depends on this question, and trust as "reliance on expected behavior" [1,2].
A positive answer can be reached through control, you just turn-off the offending user. But, when control is not possible (example, the Internet), or as when central control does not even exist, trust evaporates if it is based solely on control (or, better yet, fear of control). However, can trust be based on other factors in addition to control, or even fear of control? Does that pose a better future for a society that accepts it?
What is your experience, reasoned expectations, or theory?
[2] Kaplan, R. A matter of trust. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290815512_A_Matter_of_Trust
If Adolph Hitler had presented evidence proving he was suffering from a mental illness that prevented him from knowing the difference between right and wrong at the times of the alleged violations of international war conventions and customs of war, could he have been found not guilty by reason of insanity? If so, what would the consequences be or what should they be?
Are there any mobile apps for mass casualty blast injury documentation in the emergency room, especially for war crimes, crimes against humanity purposes? Because the ED is usually frantically trying to triage and save lives, this sort of documentation is very difficult, but I read somewhere about a competition in the Hague that someone developed an app to be used in this situation - it didn't win the comp, but it would win my vote if I could find it! Please help...!
I'm interested in how R2P, which covers mass atrocity crimes (genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity and war crimes) gained essentially "most favored norm" status while competing normative candidates covering much wider scale human suffering and loss of life such as extreme poverty and HIV/AIDS comparatively failed. I'm interested in how the sociological literature on social problems as well as the IR literatures on norm contestation and argumentation might help me make sense of this puzzle.
Dear All,
I am researching on the role of the Nigerian railways in the Nigerian Civil War. I am looking for materials on how the Nigerian forces and the Biafran armies appropriated the railways to achieve or sabotage the war.
I am particularly interested in texts that describe how the railways were used in transporting troops and materials; what and what were transported on the railways and how the government controlled the system during the war. I am also interested in text that describes or suggests killings of Igbo and other Nigerian groups in transit, as well as how the Biafran forces used the system to scuttle the Nigerian forces or achieve their mission.
I also welcome suggestions on texts with further insights on the role of railways/ transport and logistic in warfare on comparative level.
I Thank you in anticipation of your response,
I am writing an argumentative essay on the topic The best way to tackle terrorism and I can't seem to get materials on it.
Since there is still a debate going on about this issue, what - if any - empirical evidence do the advocators of enhanced interrogation techniques have?
How has 23 years (1990 – 2013) of war contributed to slum build up in Kabul City and its subsequent effect on the developing housing process and existing housing conditions?
The year 1978 saw a coup in Kabul that resulted in foreign and civil war within Afghanistan that’s still being continued till present day. The man made disasters have caused over three million Afghan civilians to migrate to 75 countries around the world and hundreds and thousands more to internally migrate. With many people being displaced and homeless, slums began to sporadically appear around various major cities.
The latest revelations about CIA torture methodologies demonstrates that medical doctors took part in what is euphemistically described as Enhanced Interrogation Techniques. How is it that an international doctrine prohibiting medical doctors from involvement in torture has failed in one of the countries that presided over the Nuremberg Trials?
Can we trust any nation that employs doctors in torture to simultaneously apply the principalist ethic Primum non Nocere in its hospitals and medical practice generally?
Should those 'medics' be identified and disbarred for life from medical practice?
I am interested in the WWII, the Eastern front and the British perspective. If youu have good ideas of research topic and or valuable materials of these topics, I am open to discussion.
Did Kantian pacifism (see “Zum ewigen Frieden”) - in which both Kelsen and Bobbio found an instrument to realize the so-called “Peace through Law” - complete fail?
