Peru
Practice Relating to Rule 156. Definition of War Crimes
Peru’s IHL Manual (2004) states:
War crimes are violations of international humanitarian law or, to use the terminology established for international armed conflicts, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the laws and customs of war applicable in cases of international armed conflict.
The manual defines the term “war crimes” as:
They are violations of international humanitarian law judged and punished based on the Charter and Judgments of the Nuremberg and Tokyo Military Tribunals and UN 1950 [Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Tribunal, United Nations International Law Commission, 5 June–29 July 1950].
Peru’s IHL and Human Rights Manual (2010) states: “War crimes are violations of international humanitarian law or, to use the terminology established for international armed conflicts, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the laws and customs of war applicable in cases of international armed conflict.”
In its Glossary of Terms, the manual defines “war crimes” as:
[V]iolations of international humanitarian law judged and punished based on the Charter and Judgments of the Nuremberg and Tokyo Military Tribunals and UN 1950 [Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Tribunal, United Nations International Law Commission, 5 June–29 July 1950].