Law of War Handbook 2005

CHAPTER 8

War Crimes and Command Responsibility

REFERENCES

1. Constitution, art. I, 5 8, cls. 10 & 14, art. I, 3 10, art. VI.


2. Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed
   Forces in the Field, Aug. 12, 1949, arts. 49-51, 6 U.S.T. 3114, 75 U.N.T.S. 31, [hereinafter
   GWS].


3. Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded, Sick, and
   Shipwrecked Members of the Armed Forces at Sea, Aug. 12,1949, arts. 50-52,6 U.S.T. 3217,75
   U.N.T.S. 85 [hereinafter GWS Sea].


4. Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, Aug. 12, 1949, arts. 102, 105-
   08, 129-131,6 U.S.T. 3316,75 U.N.T.S. 135 [hereinafter GPW].


5. Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilians in Time of War, Aug. 12, 1949, arts.
   146-148, 6 U.S.T. 3516, 75 U.N.T.S. 287 [hereinafter GC].


6. Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection
   of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), opened for sirnature Dec. 12, 1977,
   U.N. Doc. A/32/144, Annex I, arts. 11, 85, 86, 87, reprinted in Dep't of Army, Pamphlet 27-1-1
   [hereinafter DA Pam 27-1-1, Protocol I].


7. Hague Convention No. IV Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, Oct. 18, 1907, art.
   3, 36 Stat. 2277,2290,205 Consol. T.S. 277,284 [hereinafter H IV].


8. International Committee of the Red Cross, Commentary on I Geneva Convention for the
   Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field of 12
   Augnst 1949 at 351-73 (Jean S. Pictet ed., 1952) [hereinafter I Pictet].


9. UCMJ arts. 18, 21, 92 (1998).
   10.Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, pt. I, $ 2, R.C.M. 201(f)(l)(B), 201(g), R.C.M.
   307(c)(2), R.C.M. 916 (2000).
   11.Dep't of Defense, Directive 5100.77, DoD Law of War Proflam, 17 C.3. & EE.2.e.(3) (December


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11. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction 5810.01B (25 March 2002)
    13.Dep't of Army, Field Manual 27-10, The Law of Land Warfare, ch. 8 (18 July 1956) [hereinafter
    FM 27-10].
    14.Dep't of Army, Pamphlet 27-161-2, International Law, ch. 8 (23 Oct. 1962) [hereinafter DA Pam
    27-161-21.


12. International Military Tribunal, TRIAL OF THE MAJOR WAR CRIMINALS (1947) (42 volumes).


13. TIUALS OF WAR CRIMINALS BEFORE THE NUREMBERG MILITARY TRIBUNALSUNDER CONTROL
    COUNCILLAW NO. 10 (1950) (1 5 volumes) [hereinafter Trials of War Criminals].


14. International Japanese War Crimes Trials in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East
    (209 volumes).
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