Amjad Ismail Agha
In the description, there are multiple definitions of war crimes and crimes against humanity, each of which refers to a different legal system, at the national and international levels, as these crimes at the international level were clearly categorized, after World War II, in the laws of international military tribunals established by the Allies in Nuremberg and Tokyo; and in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977 “under the qualification of grave breaches of these conventions”; and in 1993 and 1994 in the statutes of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Likewise, the Law of the Permanent International Criminal Court of July 1998, which entered into force in July 2002, provides a comprehensive list of crimes that are subject to punishment by an international judicial body. By April 2013, 122 countries had ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
War crimes, as well as crimes against humanity, as well as crimes of genocide, have clear definitions in the special criminal laws of each country, and are subject to penalties under those laws. However, the exact name that frames these crimes, and the elements that define them, vary according to each national law, but on the other hand, the International Criminal Court has contributed to harmonizing the national definitions of these crimes. However, the attempt to punish the perpetrators of these crimes by national legal bodies has faced clear limitations, as they were often committed in the context of an armed conflict, involving national armies and representatives of government authorities. Likewise, the national judicial systems on which the accused or the victim depends are unlikely to remain independent or impartial in such cases and will not have the necessary means to conduct the trials efficiently. .
In the same context, and within the subjective logic, the United States insists on prosecuting Russian President Vladimir Putin, in connection with the special military operation in Ukraine, and accusing him of committing war crimes, but within that, the United States does not have jurisdiction over Ukraine, and does not have compelling evidence of Putin’s alleged crimes, and therefore it will be impossible to prove the facts that Washington claims to have occurred, and in return, the latter cannot even prove that Putin actually ordered the commission of what Washington calls crimes against humanity.
Among the providers of misunderstanding and misuse, the problems that accompanied the terms war crimes and crimes against humanity cannot be counted, especially since in times of war, there are certain activities that are not acceptable in the legal sense, and it is certain that the Second World War included atrocities of various types on both Both sides, but the deliberate American bombing of German cities at the time, specifically in Hamburg and Dresden, was not justified, at a time when Germany was on the verge of defeat in the war, and it was remarkable that those cities were not a military target, and were full of refugees, but the outcome of the American bombing was At least 200,000 civilians killed.
In a related aspect, the largest war crime in history, was the nuclear bombing ordered by former US President Harry Truman 1945″ to 1953 For Hiroshima and Nagasaki , which probably killed over 200,000 mostly civilians, when Japan was also preparing to surrender, and since Harry Truman was on the side that won the war, there were no legal consequences or punishment for his decision, although critics since public 1945 , they sometimes denounced the first use of nuclear weapons.
In fact, if needlessly killing innocent civilians is the standard definition of war crimes, then the last five US presidents were, in fact, war criminals. In this sense, and historically, accusations of war crimes, which have no real meaning in the law and are also infinitely flexible, often depend on the strength of the victorious side, its ability to distort the facts, and evade prosecution, and here is the ability of the United States, As always the victorious side, the new world order is centered on the United States, especially with the presence of the United Nations ( UN .). ) in New York City, the World Bank in Washington, the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, and at the United Nations American supremacy was reinforced by the creation of the Security Council, which alone has the power to authorize military action against any state, although the Security Council has five permanent members, Each has a veto, which means that no effective action can be taken against them no matter what they do. Thus, the United States, along with China, Russia, Britain and France, including Israel, became effectively immune from any war crimes proven against them .
In conclusion, it is true that the International Criminal Court in The Hague was set up to deal with “war crimes and crimes against humanity,” but it is also true that the United States, Russia and Israel, do not recognize the court’s authority, and the United States has stated that no ICC investigator will be allowed entering the United States. Given this, it becomes possible to witness how the whole farce of war crimes, and other violations of the new world order, is always framed in the dark and prevents access to evidence, and what is more, the weaker party in any political or military equation may be accused of committing crimes war.
The ugly truth with regard to war crimes is that the great powers always manage to get away with their crimes, and no thread of crime can be caught, the price of which is paid by civilians alone in the time of adult wars.
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