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welcome to watchmojo.com it we’re
counting down the five most brutal and
surprising facts that we could find out
about war crimes those acts that
everyone agrees are so bad you can’t
even do them to your sworn enemies
number five war crimes are a modern idea
the history of war is filled with a
bunch of horrible terrible horrible
awful stuff people used to think that
raping and pillaging and genocide were
just part of the war process States
first started to think about
international war laws during the
Napoleonic era but for the most part
there was no way to enforce any trees or
laws that existed until the Second World
War the modern laws around war crimes
have their roots in the 1899 Hague
Convention but again there wasn’t really
any way to enforce them until the 1940s
the first world war was filled with
atrocities like the Armenian Genocide
and the rape of Belgium but even if
soldiers and politicians were found
guilty of war crimes they were rarely
extradited or punished it wasn’t until
after World War Two during the Nuremberg
trials and the trials in Tokyo that the
laws were codified and a system was
created to enforce them
it is logical in view of the times in
which we live but to be logical is not
to be right and nothing on God’s earth
could ever make it right
number four pepper spraying is a war
crime but only during war
pepper spray fits into a weird gray area
of legality it’s technically a chemical
weapon which makes it illegal to use for
warfare but it’s legal to use it for
crowd control even in a war zone
this means it’s not a war crime for say
American forces to break up a civilian
riot with pepper spray
even if that riot happens to be in Iraq
or Syria as far as international law is
concerned a state can use pepper spray
anywhere as long as they don’t spray
enemy combatants so while it’s
technically not against international
law most governments will not use pepper
spray abroad for fear of causing an
international incident pepper spray can
kill people with respiratory and heart
problems and it’s impossible to control
whether it hits rioters insurgents or
bystanders
but the health risks don’t seem to stop
many countries from using it
domestically in summation pepper spray
is too cruel and dangerous to be used
against a trained soldier but against a
college kid at a sit-in protest it’s
just fine
number three george w bush is a symbolic
war criminal at this hour American and
coalition forces are in the early stages
of military operations to disarm Iraq to
free its people and to defend the world
from grave danger in 2014 former
President George W Bush former Vice
President Dick Cheney former Secretary
of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former
British Prime Minister Tony Blair were
tried in absentia by the kuala lumpur
war crimes tribunal which sought to
emulate the nuremberg trials the
tribunal found all of them guilty of war
crimes for their roles in the Iraq and
Afghanistan wars but this needs to be
put into context the tribunal is
primarily a symbolic institution as it
holds no power due to their lack of a UN
mandate regardless while these verdicts
were not immediately actionable in any
way fears of extradition have stopped
Bush from traveling to several countries
there have even been some pushes to
arrest Dick Cheney as a war criminal if
he ever returns to Canada on a
foreboding side note Donald Trump has
recently advocated what many have called
war crimes in the fight against Isis
when you get these terrorists you have
to take out their families so this whole
mess could happen all over again in a
few years so I said yes I would bring
back waterboarding and I’d make it a
hell of a lot worse number two alleged
war criminals helped get America to the
moon Operation Paperclip was a covert
post-world War two operation in which
America imported over 1500 German
scientists for work on missiles along
with chemical and biological weapons
Operation Paperclip after world war ii
shield recruited german scientists with
strategic value although President
Truman ordered that no active Nazis or
former high-ranking off the officials
were to be brought to America
the CIA reportedly went behind his back
and covered up evidence of war crimes to
allow many of these scientists to enter
the u.s. how about microwave ovens Neil
Armstrong hook-and-loop fasteners okay
you lost none of those things would have
been possible without the Nazi
scientists we brought back after World
War two one of the most famous people
brought
to America through Operation Paperclip
was very nirvan Braun he was a former
Nazi scientist and a member of the SS
and though he was never tried as such he
is considered by some to be a war
criminal he played a key role in
developing the Saturn 5 rocket which
would eventually get Americans to the
moon the Nazis invented Neil Armstrong
rockets which put him on the moon number
one America covered up Japanese war
crimes unit 731 was a world war two
Japanese research unit that did human
experiments on Chinese Russian and
Korean citizens and soldiers for the
purposes of developing chemical and
biological weapons because of its covert
nature it’s hard to say how many victims
were experimented on low estimates have
it at 3,000 while high estimates reach
all the way up to a quarter of a million
there are no known survivors details
about the unit have only started to
become public in the last few decades
because according to the New York Times
the American government actively covered
it up and offered immunity to Japanese
researchers if they provide an America
with the medical and military research
they’ve accumulated during the unit’s
existence part of the reason they did
this was to keep the research away from
the Russians the details of the program
are incredibly depressing and reportedly
involved murder rape and fantasize and a
series of unimaginably awful experiments
with infectious diseases extreme
elements and weapons tests so what do
you think is it ethical to utilize
research gleaned from unethical
experiments don’t look so stunned I’m on
the Intelligence Committee secrets are
the only real currency we’re dealing for
more UN mandated top 10s and
internationally frowned upon top fives
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welcome to watchmojo.com it we’re
counting down the five most brutal and
surprising facts that we could find out
about war crimes those acts that
everyone agrees are so bad you can’t
even do them to your sworn enemies
number five war crimes are a modern idea
the history of war is filled with a
bunch of horrible terrible horrible
awful stuff people used to think that
raping and pillaging and genocide were
just part of the war process States
first started to think about
international war laws during the
Napoleonic era but for the most part
there was no way to enforce any trees or
laws that existed until the Second World
War the modern laws around war crimes
have their roots in the 1899 Hague
Convention but again there wasn’t really
any way to enforce them until the 1940s
the first world war was filled with
atrocities like the Armenian Genocide
and the rape of Belgium but even if
soldiers and politicians were found
guilty of war crimes they were rarely
extradited or punished it wasn’t until
after World War Two during the Nuremberg
trials and the trials in Tokyo that the
laws were codified and a system was
created to enforce them
it is logical in view of the times in
which we live but to be logical is not
to be right and nothing on God’s earth
could ever make it right
number four pepper spraying is a war
crime but only during war
pepper spray fits into a weird gray area
of legality it’s technically a chemical
weapon which makes it illegal to use for
warfare but it’s legal to use it for
crowd control even in a war zone
this means it’s not a war crime for say
American forces to break up a civilian
riot with pepper spray
even if that riot happens to be in Iraq
or Syria as far as international law is
concerned a state can use pepper spray
anywhere as long as they don’t spray
enemy combatants so while it’s
technically not against international
law most governments will not use pepper
spray abroad for fear of causing an
international incident pepper spray can
kill people with respiratory and heart
problems and it’s impossible to control
whether it hits rioters insurgents or
bystanders
but the health risks don’t seem to stop
many countries from using it
domestically in summation pepper spray
is too cruel and dangerous to be used
against a trained soldier but against a
college kid at a sit-in protest it’s
just fine
number three george w bush is a symbolic
war criminal at this hour American and
coalition forces are in the early stages
of military operations to disarm Iraq to
free its people and to defend the world
from grave danger in 2014 former
President George W Bush former Vice
President Dick Cheney former Secretary
of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former
British Prime Minister Tony Blair were
tried in absentia by the kuala lumpur
war crimes tribunal which sought to
emulate the nuremberg trials the
tribunal found all of them guilty of war
crimes for their roles in the Iraq and
Afghanistan wars but this needs to be
put into context the tribunal is
primarily a symbolic institution as it
holds no power due to their lack of a UN
mandate regardless while these verdicts
were not immediately actionable in any
way fears of extradition have stopped
Bush from traveling to several countries
there have even been some pushes to
arrest Dick Cheney as a war criminal if
he ever returns to Canada on a
foreboding side note Donald Trump has
recently advocated what many have called
war crimes in the fight against Isis
when you get these terrorists you have
to take out their families so this whole
mess could happen all over again in a
few years so I said yes I would bring
back waterboarding and I’d make it a
hell of a lot worse number two alleged
war criminals helped get America to the
moon Operation Paperclip was a covert
post-world War two operation in which
America imported over 1500 German
scientists for work on missiles along
with chemical and biological weapons
Operation Paperclip after world war ii
shield recruited german scientists with
strategic value although President
Truman ordered that no active Nazis or
former high-ranking off the officials
were to be brought to America
the CIA reportedly went behind his back
and covered up evidence of war crimes to
allow many of these scientists to enter
the u.s. how about microwave ovens Neil
Armstrong hook-and-loop fasteners okay
you lost none of those things would have
been possible without the Nazi
scientists we brought back after World
War two one of the most famous people
brought
to America through Operation Paperclip
was very nirvan Braun he was a former
Nazi scientist and a member of the SS
and though he was never tried as such he
is considered by some to be a war
criminal he played a key role in
developing the Saturn 5 rocket which
would eventually get Americans to the
moon the Nazis invented Neil Armstrong
rockets which put him on the moon number
one America covered up Japanese war
crimes unit 731 was a world war two
Japanese research unit that did human
experiments on Chinese Russian and
Korean citizens and soldiers for the
purposes of developing chemical and
biological weapons because of its covert
nature it’s hard to say how many victims
were experimented on low estimates have
it at 3,000 while high estimates reach
all the way up to a quarter of a million
there are no known survivors details
about the unit have only started to
become public in the last few decades
because according to the New York Times
the American government actively covered
it up and offered immunity to Japanese
researchers if they provide an America
with the medical and military research
they’ve accumulated during the unit’s
existence part of the reason they did
this was to keep the research away from
the Russians the details of the program
are incredibly depressing and reportedly
involved murder rape and fantasize and a
series of unimaginably awful experiments
with infectious diseases extreme
elements and weapons tests so what do
you think is it ethical to utilize
research gleaned from unethical
experiments don’t look so stunned I’m on
the Intelligence Committee secrets are
the only real currency we’re dealing for
more UN mandated top 10s and
internationally frowned upon top fives
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
you don’t believe me welcome to NASA
sometime in the Ohio Hitler whoop they
all jump straight up
you
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