2.For the purpose of this Statute, "war crimes" means:
(a) Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention:
(i) Wilful killing; Massacre's at Haditha and Ischagi
(ii) Torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments; Using WP in Fallujah
(iii) Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health; Using cluster bombs in urban areas
(iv) Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly; Assault on Fallujah
(v) Compelling a prisoner of war or other protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile Power; The Awakening
(vi) Wilfully depriving a prisoner of war or other protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial; Military Commissions Act
(vii) Unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement; Renditions
(viii) Taking of hostages. Italy charges 5 CIA agents with kidnapping
(b) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts:
(i) Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities; Bombing hospitals
(ii) Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects which are not military objectives; Checkpoint shootings
(iii) Intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, as long as they are entitled to the protection given to civilians or civilian objects under the international law of armed conflict; US snipers shooting ambulances
(iv) Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects or widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated; Using depleted uranium munitions
(v) Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives; Wedding party bombed by a Predator drone in Afghanistan
(vi) Killing or wounding a combatant who, having laid down his arms or having no longer means of defence, has surrendered at discretion; There is a recent video (see "Iraq war is Just" thread) that shows un-armed belligerants being executed by a helicopter gunship AFTER they laid down their weapons
(vii) Making improper use of a flag of truce, of the flag or of the military insignia and uniform of the enemy or of the United Nations, as well as of the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions, resulting in death or serious personal injury; I know of no incident where we have done this
(viii) The transfer, directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies, or the deportation or transfer of all or parts of the population of the occupied territory within or outside this territory; 5 million Iraqis are now homeless and living as refugee's in the desert
(ix) Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not military objectives; Again, bombing hospitals
(x) Subjecting persons who are in the power of an adverse party to physical mutilation or to medical or scientific experiments of any kind which are neither justified by the medical, dental or hospital treatment of the person concerned nor carried out in his or her interest, and which cause death to or seriously endanger the health of such person or persons; The beatings at GITMO
(xi) Killing or wounding treacherously individuals belonging to the hostile nation or army; Waterboarding
(xii) Declaring that no quarter will be given; US snipers shooting Iraqis holding white flags
(xiii) Destroying or seizing the enemy's property unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of war; Building the largest US embassy in the world in Bagdad Green Zone
(xiv) Declaring abolished, suspended or inadmissible in a court of law the rights and actions of the nationals of the hostile party; US position on "unlawful combatants" in violation of the Geneva Conventions
(xv) Compelling the nationals of the hostile party to take part in the operations of war directed against their own country, even if they were in the belligerent's service before the commencement of the war; Shia death squads coming into power on the back of US tanks
(xvi) Pillaging a town or place, even when taken by assault; Fallujah, Ramadi, Mosul, etc.
(xvii) Employing poison or poisoned weapons; Using depleted uranium munitions
(xviii) Employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all analogous liquids, materials or devices; I know of no incident where we have done this
(xix) Employing bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the core or is pierced with incisions; Again, depleted uranium munitions
(xx) Employing weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare which are of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering or which are inherently indiscriminate in violation of the international law of armed conflict, provided that such weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare are the subject of a comprehensive prohibition and are included in an annex to this Statute, by an amendment in accordance with the relevant provisions set forth in articles 121 and 123; Using the napalm-like substance "Willie Pete" in Fallujah
(xxi) Committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment; The abuses at Abu Ghraib
(xxii) Committing rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, as defined in article 7, paragraph 2 (f), enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence also constituting a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions; The marine charged with raping an Iraq 14 year old
(xxiii) Utilizing the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operations; We are not guilty of this one either
(xxiv) Intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport, and personnel using the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions in conformity with international law; Bombing hospitals, shooting ambulances, refusing access to medical personel in Fallujah
(xxv) Intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including wilfully impeding relief supplies as provided for under the Geneva Conventions; Shutting off basic utilities in Fallujah if residents did not hand over insurgents
(xxvi) Conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifteen years into the national armed forces or using them to participate actively in hostilities. We didn't enlist children, we just tortured them at Abu Ghraib