List of convicted war criminals

This is a list of convicted war criminals found guilty of war crimes under the rules of warfare as defined by the World War II Nuremberg Trials (as well as by earlier agreements established by the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907, the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, and the Geneva Conventions of 1929 and 1949).

American Civil War

World War II

Austria

Croatia

France

Hungary

Italy

Nazi Germany

Romania

Slovakia

Yugoslavia

Other

  • Ričards Jasevs (1902-1991)

Latvian Nazi collaborator

Japan

Other

  • Lee Hak-rae, Korean soldier who fought for the Japanese in WWII[16]
  • Zhang Jinghui (1871–1959), Prime Minister of Manchukuo from 1935 to 1945

Bangladesh Liberation War

Dirty War

Khmer Rouge regime

Rwandan Civil War

Sierra Leone Civil War

Yugoslav Wars

After the Yugoslav Wars, an international Court was formed to try war criminals (ICTY). However, ICTY tried only a selected number of high-ranking people (a total of 161), with local Courts (in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia) starting trials mostly against individuals or soldiers who carried out orders of those high-ranking officers. Many of those have been convicted.

Croatia raised charges against 3666 people for war crimes, of which 1381 were dropped due to lack of evidence.[33]

Bosnian War

Croatian War of Independence

Croat–Bosniak War

Kosovo War

Ituri conflict

War in Afghanistan

Iraq War

Saddam Hussein regime

Syrian Civil war

  • Mohammad Abdullah, Syrian soldier, convicted of appearing in photos standing over a pile of bodies[114]
  • Eyad al-Gharib, Syrian intelligence officer who aided crimes against humanity[115]
  • Ahmad al Khedr, convicted for killing a captured Syrian Regime soldier[116]
  • Ahmad Al-Y, Syrian man who fought with terrorist organization Ahrar al-Sham[117]

Islamic State in Syria and Iraq

  • Oussama Achraf Akhlafa, Islamic State militant, sentenced to 7½ years in prison[118]
  • Lina Ishaq, Syrian woman who allowed her pre-teenage son join the Islamic State leading to his death, sentenced to six years at a Swedish tribunal[119]
  • Nurten J., identity of German woman who travelled to Syria to join ISIS and committed war crimes against property[120]

Others

Africa

Asia

Europe

North America

South America

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