[국제법에 명시된 戰爭犯罪(War Crimes)의 개념]
VI(b) War Crimes: Violations of the laws or customs of war which include but are not limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave-labor or for any other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory, murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war or persons on the seas, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity.
-Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Tribunal
War consists largely of acts that would be criminal if performed in time of peace- killing, wounding, kidnapping, destroying or carrying off other peoples' property. Such conduct is not regarded as criminal if it takes place in the course of war, because the state of war lays a blanket of immunity over the warrior.
But the area of immunity is not unlimited, and it's boudaries are marked by the laws of war. Unless the conduct in question falls within those boundarie, it does not loose the criminal character it would have should it occur in peacetime circumstances.
- Telford Taylor, Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy, 1979.
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