A list of the charges against the United States of committing war crimes:
[Edit] crimes in the Philippine-American War
Conducted the investigation of the congressional commission investigating the war crimes military in the Philippines. Which killed nearly 1 million and 500 thousand civilians.
[Edit] World War II.
Air strikes on cities
Use the Allies and the Axis powers air strikes on cities and civilians way to victory in the war. Leaving about 2.5 million dead civilians were killed under U.S. air strikes and British.
For example, the bombing of the city of Dresden, which left 25 people dead and Berlin that left 800 people dead in Germany.
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Where the two cities were bombed two bombs nuclear powers to force the Axis powers to surrender.
The killing of prisoners of war, as happened in the massacre Kanekata Italy by Colonel Joseph McCaffrey.
Dacawi massacre in Germany.
Biscari massacre in Italy.
Process “teardrop” where he was killed 8 German sailors after their arrest and they had survived the sinking of the German ship.
Odoval massacre – not – Hubert, France, where he was killed 80 German soldiers captive.
Coast Omaha massacre in France where he was killed 64 German prisoners.
There are many war crimes in the killing of prisoners took place in Germany and Japan has not been verified by the researchers have confirmed such a book “Day of Battle” Rick Atkinson, and the book “Battle Di Nromanda – Dai” Anthony Beaver,
Of James and Anjartner attributed few severe Prisoners of the Japanese war in the United States in World War II to two main factors: 1) resistance Japanese severe to surrender ‘2) convinced U.S. has spread soldiers that the Japanese words for “animals” or “non-humans” including not giving them the right treatment laws to protect prisoners of war. Of Virgiusn Group II affirmed that “the Allied forces had been looking to the Japanese as the Nazis regarded opponents especially the Russians that they” Untermenschen “any” non-humans ”. [1] [2]
Rape
There was a claim that U.S. troops raped women after the Battle of Okinawa, Japan in 1945. There are 1336 cases of rape were reported in the first ten days of the occupation Kanagawa Prefecture after the surrender of the Japanese.
[Edit] Korean War
Where the ground unit and a U.S. military aircraft to kill between 300 to 400 civilians in the days between 26 to 29 July 1950. Mostly women, children and elderly in village Nojn – ri, South Korea. Is not recognized most of the dead and missing to this day.
[Edit] Vietnam War
Total number of war crimes Pentagon’s documented 360 incident. Not including the massacre of May – Lay, which claimed the lives of 347-504 civilians in South Vietnam, mostly women and children, on March 16, 1968. Among U.S. war crimes in Vietnam use chemical spraying to destroy and burn and destroy humans, fields and villages, such as spray orange, blue and green.
Examples you Ranch – Hand which occurred in 1962 and continued impact until 1971. Vietnam had claimed in 1995 that the death toll in the war reached 5 million, 4 million of them unarmed civilians. While he was defense minister when McNamara said in a televised interview later that the death toll of 3 million 400 thousand.
[Edit] bombing of Yugoslavia
Amnesty International condemned the air strikes carried out by NATO forces supporting the U.S. in 1999, where behind the bombing at least 400 civilians and at most 5,000 civilians dead. While Organization said Human Rights Watch that the incident was not a war crime, but merely a violation of international humanitarian laws.
[Edit] the “war on terror” – ongoing
Where she appeared several war crimes by U.S. forces against civilians in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia, in pictures aerial bombardment against unarmed civilians, rape women and men or kill prisoners of war or torture and the violation of their humanity or genocide or use of internationally prohibited weapons. Where the organization Human Rights Watch claim
In 2005 that “command responsibility” could make senior officials with the Bush administration guilty of war crimes, whether knowingly or persons under their responsibility. Is not yet a high-level investigation into crimes committed by U.S. troops in the so-called “war on terror” the beginning of 2001 to today.
As estimated in some quarters that the dead Iraq, for example, reached 2 million civilians since the start of the war in 2003.
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