Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know, our flagship book, is an A-Z guide to the laws governing armed conflict and their application in practice. The chapters include discussions of the crimes prohibited by international humanitarian law, key terms relating to modern warfare, analysis of legal categories, and case studies showing the place of war crimes in recent conflicts. A revised and updated edition of the book, Crimes of War 2.0, was published in November 2007.

The full text of all articles from the revised edition is available below, along with chapters from the first edition that were not included for reasons of space in the second edition, and articles specially commissioned for the French edition.

The text of the Arabic edition of Crimes of War is also available online. To read the Arabic edition, click here >

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• Preface • Preface to the first edition • Foreword • International Humanitarian Law: An Overview • Introduction to International Humanitarian Law * • Act of War • Afghanistan • Aggression • Algeria * • Amnesty * • Apartheid • Arab-Israeli War • The Second Intifada and After • Israel’s Views of the Application of IHL to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip • Armistice • Belligerent Status • Biological Experiments • Biological Weapons • Blockade as Act of War • Bosnia • The Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal • Cambodia • Carpet or Area Bombing • Chechnya • Chemical Weapons • Child Soldiers • Children as Killers • Civil Defense • Civil Patrol • Civil War • Civilian Immunity • Civilian, Illegal Targeting of • Collateral Damage • Collective Punishment • Colombia • Combatant Status • Command Responsibility • Common Article 3 • Compelling Military Service • Concentration Camps • Congo, Democratic Republic of • Courts and Tribunals • Crimes against Humanity • Crimes against Peace • Cultural Property and Historical Monuments • Customary Law • Customary Law: The ICRC Study • Dangerous Forces: Dams, Dikes, and Nuclear Stations • Darfur • Dead and Wounded • Death Squads • Deportation • Detention and Interrogation • Disappearances • Due Process • Due Process Rights • Environmental Warfare • Kuwaiti Oil Wells • Ethnic Cleansing • Evacuation of Civilians from the Battlefield • Executions, Extrajudicial • The Camera as a Witness

• Forced Labor • Free Fire Zones • Genocide • Gray Areas in IHL • Guantanamo • Guerrillas • Gulf War • Health Care System • Hors de Combat • Hospitals • Hostages • Humanitarian Aid, Blocking of • Humanitarian Intervention • Identification • Illegal or Prohibited Acts • Immunity from Attack • Imprisonment of Civilian Population • Incitement to Genocide • Indiscriminate Attack • Internal Displacement • Intervention, Right of * • International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) • International Humanitarian Fact-finding Commission • International vs. Internal Armed Conflict • Common Article 3 • Iran-Iraq War • Iraq • Irregulars • Journalists, Protection of • Journalists in Peril • Jurisdiction, Universal • Jus ad Bellum/Jus in Bello • Just and Unjust War • Legitimate Military Targets • Levée en Masse • Liberia • Limited War • Mass Graves • Medical Experiments on POWs • Medical Transports • Medical Personnel • Medico-Legal Investigations of War Crimes • Mercenaries • Military Necessity • Military Objective • Mines • NATO and the Geneva Conventions • Nuclear Weapons • Occupation

• Paramilitaries • Parlementaires • Perfidy and Treachery • Persecution on Political, Racial, or Religious Grounds • Pillage • Poisonous Weapons • Prisoners of War • Prisoners of War, non-repatriation of • Private Military Firms • Property: Civilian, Destruction of • Property: Wanton Destruction • Proportionality, Principle of • Protected Persons • Quarter, Giving No • Red Cross/Red Crescent Emblem • Refoulement • Refugees, Rights of • Remembering, duty of * • Reprisal • Reprisal Killing • Rwanda • Rwanda–Refugees and Genocidaires • Safety Zones • Sanctions • Sexual Violence • Sexual Violence: Enslavement • Sexual Violence: Systematic Rape • Shields • Sick and Wounded • Siege • Slavery • Soldiers, Rights of • Starvation • Terrorism • Terrorism against Civilians • Torture • Total War • Training in International Humanitarian Law • Transfer of Civilians • Undefended Towns • United Nation and the Geneva Conventions • Unlawful Confinement • Victims, Rights of • Wanton Destruction • War Crimes, Categories of • Water Supplies and Works, Destruction of • Weapons • Willful Killing • Willfulness • Afterword • Note on the Law and Legal Terms • Major International Humanitarian Law • Further Reading • Legal Resources Online • Contributors • Acknowledgments

* Articles from the French edition in English translation.

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