Ratni zločin – razlika između verzija

[[Image:Chinese killed by Japanese Army in a ditch, Hsuchow.jpg|thumb|right|[[Xuzhou]], [[Kina]], [[1938]]. Tela kineskih civila koje je ubila japanska vojska.<ref>It may be pointless to try to establish which World War II Axis aggressor, Germany or Japan, was the more brutal to the peoples it victimised. The Germans killed six million Jews and 20 million Russians [i.e. Soviet citizens]; the Japanese slaughtered as many as 30 million Filipinos, Malays, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Indonesians and Burmese, at least 23 million of them ethnic Chinese. Both nations looted the countries they conquered on a monumental scale, though Japan plundered more, over a longer period, than the Nazis. Both conquerors enslaved millions and exploited them as forced labourers—and, in the case of the Japanese, as [forced] prostitutes for front-line troops. Johnson, ''Looting of Asia''</ref>]]

[[File:My Lai massacre.jpg|thumb|right|[[Vijetnam]] [[1968]]. Tela vijetnamskih seljana koje je ubila američka vojska.]]

 

Ratni zločini su postojali i bili definirani običajnim pravom od davnina, a od njih je najpoznatija [[ratna perfidija]]. Koncept je prvi put kodificiran [[Haške konvencije|Haškim konvencijama]], te konačno ustanovljen nakon [[drugi svjetski rat|drugog svjetskog rata]]. Odredbe o ratnim zločinima su iz međunarodnih konvencija preuzele sve države svijeta, kao i [[Međunarodni krivični sud]].