
On March 16, U.S. time, President Joe Biden, in a change from the practice of most U.S. presidents over the past 75 years of avoiding the "personalization of conflict" to the number one nuclear weapon opponent in times of crisis, officially declared Russian President Vladimir Putin a "war criminal" to reporters, the most serious accusation made by a U.S. official in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
But is it serious to call him a war criminal? Put it this way, the charge is as serious as piracy and genocide," said David Crane, who served as chief prosecutor of the United Nations Special Court for the Lion Rock Republic. .
A "war criminal" is a person who violates the laws of armed conflict in the course of war, including military operations that violate international law and personal crimes committed in the process, such as planning or initiating aggressive war, killing or abusing prisoners of war, or genocide.
What is the definition of war crimes? The modern concept of war crimes was further developed under the auspices of the Nuremberg Trials, in accordance with the London Charter published on August 8, 1945, as the war crimes trials of the Axis leaders after World War II established the Nuremberg Principles of Law. In addition to war crimes, the Charter also defined crimes against peace and humanity, which were usually committed during war and coincided with war crimes........