Hague Conventions

  • 1899 then 1907
  • meetings in The Hague in The Netherlands
  • negotiate treaties that determine war crimes

  • ban on

    • Planning a war or an atrocity while under a peace treaty
    • Murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war
    • Murder of hostages
    • Torture or inhumane treatment
    • Destruction of cities, towns and villages
    • Devastation not justified
    • Actions against civilians:
      • Murder
      • Extermination
      • Enslavement
      • Deportation
      • Mass systemic rape

  • determination that individuals could be held criminally responsible for the actions of a country or its soldiers

  • ‘yes, war is hell, but don’t be inhumane’

source: An Abolitionist’s Handbook