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war atrocities
Definition
- War itself can be considered an atrocity, but even in the extreme violence of war, people make distinctions between acts that are necessary to achieve a nation's war aims and those that are gratuitously cruel. Targeting civilians, killing the wounded, rape, torture, and genocide are among the acts that both offend our conscience and violate international law. [Source: Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime; War Atrocities]
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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-KD73ND8Q-X
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