Starvation (crime)
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starvation-crime-163-16668485
title:
Starvation (crime)
text:
Starvation of a civilian population is a war crime, a crime against humanity, or an act of genocide according to modern international criminal law. Starvation has not always been illegal according to international law; the starvation of civilians during the siege of Leningrad was ruled to be not criminal by a United States military court, and the 1949 Geneva Convention, though imposing limits, "accepted the legality of starvation as a weapon of war in principle". Historically, the development of
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Treatment of starvation as a crime under international law
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation_(crime)
date created:
2023-11-03T09:05:20Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T17:27:29Z
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