War Crimes Act

There are two acts known as the War Crimes Act

  • War Crimes Act 1991 of the United Kingdom
  • War Crimes Act of 1996 of the United States

Famous quotes containing the words war, crimes and/or act:

    “What would you do in my position? Would you drop the war where it is? Or, would you prosecute it in future, with elderstalk squirts, charged with rose water?”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their parents; only for their own crimes may persons be put to death.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 24:16.

    “The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.”
    —Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)