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Descriptor English: War Crimes
Descriptor Spanish: Crímenes de Guerra
Descriptor crímenes de guerra
Entry term(s) crimen de guerra
Scope note: Actos criminales cometidos durante una guerra o en conexión con ella, por ej. maltrato de prisioneros, homicidio deliberado de civiles, etc.
Descriptor Portuguese: Crimes de Guerra
Descriptor French: Crimes de guerre
Entry term(s): Crime, War
Crimes, War
War Crime
Tree number(s): I01.198.240.903
I01.880.735.950.500.903
SP9.242.569.190.562.307
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014858
Scope note: Criminal acts committed during, or in connection with, war, e.g., maltreatment of prisoners, willful killing of civilians, etc.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
EH ethnology
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
PC prevention & control
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
TD trends
Related: Human Rights Abuses MeSH
DeCS ID: 15260
Unique ID: D014858
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2015/06/29
War Crimes - Preferred
Concept UI M0022870
Scope note Criminal acts committed during, or in connection with, war, e.g., maltreatment of prisoners, willful killing of civilians, etc.
Preferred term War Crimes
Entry term(s) Crime, War
Crimes, War
War Crime



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