...ILL-TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR Article 6 (b) of the Charter defines war crimes in these words : "War Crimes : namely, violations of the laws or customs...devastation not justified by military necessity." In the course of the war, many Allied soldiers who had surrendered to the Germans were shot immediately,...

...or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing; (b) WAR CRIMES: namely, violations of the laws or customs...or devastation not justified by military necessity; 1 US Department of State, Executive Agreement Series 472. (c) CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY: namely, murder,...

...December 1945, a regulation had been promulgated by General M&c Arthur's headquarters which denned the "wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages:...or devastation not justified by military necessity" as a war crime. A similar United States Army regulation was issued for the China theater in January...

...limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave labour or for any other purpose of cilivian population of or in occupied territory, murder or...devastation not justified by military necessity." Article II of Control Council Law No. 1o provides: " (b) War Crimes. Atrocities or offenses against...

...or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing; (b) WAR CRIMES: namely, violations of the laws or customs...or devastation not justified by military necessity; are declaratory of existing international criminal law. United States v. GoeringiThe Nurnberg Trial),...

...is found in the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, which condemned the following: (b) WAR CRIMES: namely, violations of the laws or customs...or devastation not justified by military necessity; (a) CRIMES AGAINST PEACE: namely, planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression,...

...(A) EMPLOYMENT OF POISONOUS WEAPONS OR OTHER WEAPONS CALCULATED TO CAUSE UNNECESSARY SUFFERING; (B) WANTON DESTRUCTION OF CITIES, TOWNS OR VILLAGES, OR...DEVASTATION NOT JUSTIFIED BY MILITARY NECESSITY; (C) ATTACK, OR BOMBARDMENT, BY WHATEVER MEANS, OF UNDEFENDED TOWNS, VILLAGES, DWELLINGS, OR BUILDINGS;...

...(i) employment of poisonous weapons or other weapons calculated to cause unnecessary suffering; (ii) wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity; (in) attack, or bombardment, by whatever means, of undefended towns, villages, dwellings or buildings;...

...(ii) employment of poisonous weapons or other weapons calculated to cause unnecessary suffering; (iii) wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity; and (iv) in the case of armed conflict, using methods or means of warfare not justified by military...

...violations shall include, but not be limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave labour or for any other purpose of civilian population of...or devastation not justified by military necessity. Although the Charter relied upon existing law under the Hague and Geneva Conventions, it served the...