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Top 10 most horrific war crimes in history

War crime : violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action : -intentionally killing civilians or prisoners of war -torture -wartime sexual violence -pillaging -committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing

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-Date : 1995 -Location : Bosnia and Herzgovina -Deaths : 7.000

10 : Sebrenica Massacre

-Date : 1971 -Location : Bengladesh -Deaths : 3 million

9 : Bengladesh Genocide

-Date : 1935 -Location : Ethipia -Deaths : 80 000

8 : Mustard Gas : 2nd Italo-Ethiopian war

-Date : 1936–1945 -Location : Japan -Deaths : 300 000

7 : The Experiments of Unit 731

-Date : 1915-1923 -Location : Ottoman Empire (Turkey, Syria) -Deaths : 1.5 million

6 : Armenian Genocide

-Date : 1968 -Location : Viet-Nam -Deaths : 300 - 500

5 : My Lai Massacre

-Date : 1975 - 1979 -Location : Cambodia -Deaths : 1.5 to 2 million

4 : Cambodian Genocide

-Date : 1967-1970 -Location : Nigeria -Deaths : 500.000 - 3 million

3 : Nigerian Civil War

-Date : 1864–1870 -Location : South America -Deaths : 400.000

2 : Paraguayan War/Triple Alliance

-Date : 1941-1945 -Location : Germany and Europe under Nazi domination -Deaths : 6 million

1 : Holocaust/Shoah

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