how does war crime effect the government?

Answer 1

It doesn't, even if the world court found a country guilty of war crimes said country could just ignore it. Look at the USA it doesn't torture P.O.W.s it sends them to other countries and lets THEM torture them. So they cover each others butts.

Answer 2

Well, war crimes affect governments in various ways. For the most part it does some combination of the below.

1. It almost certainly makes it very nearly impossible for the offending country to take or make bold leadership or initiatives in the future , which are taken seriously by other countries or the citizens of other countries,the argument is that if country X was really serious about crime A, they wouldn't have allowed that to happen in the first place.

The exception to the rule is when either

A. The citizens or politicians of the country internally recognize and correct for the war-crimes activities through normal political means.

B. The citizens or politicians of the country internally remove,arrest or purge the war-criminals.

C. The country is defeated militarily so completely that the war-crime actions are considered unpalatable by the surviving generation of citizens and politicians.

2. The leadership or their party or more broadly the mindset from which they were proposing, implementing and promoting may either suffer or become defunct as a result.

3. The people of the country in question may be known or considered pariah for allowing such leadership to exist in their country.

4. It also opens the offending country up to the possibility of either concerted alliance or military action against it (see 1C), with respect to a recent or ongoing act of war-crimes.

This generally speaking is when the war-crime in question is of such grievous magnitude or such gratuitous nature that the either neighboring countries or an alliance of countries see fit to expend their wealth and blood to militarily act against the offending country to correct the situation.

5. It may permanently alter the culture of the society , typically creating either a regretful survivor "generation" or a set of persecuted/persecutor relationships within the society which may cause problems again in the future.

6. Alternatively , the offending class, race, group of citizens, or nation may feel further empowered and commit further war-crimes at a later date or support such actions against other communities or surrounding nations.

7. Without some economic, internal (military/political/social), external (military/economic/social) or geographic constraint, such war-crimes may simply be effectively "completed" and the question then becomes one of preserving or eliminating evidence of the war-crimes committed.

8. Sometimes, the government or political class "completes" the war-crime or crimes in question and this is discovered after the fact, which makes the situation catastrophic and usually (but not always) fatal to the interests of the war-criminals.

9. Very occasionally, the war-crimes are of such a nature that the race as a whole becomes aware of and chooses to try and avoid such behavior in the future, such war-crimes are typically very grievous and this circumstance is very rare.

History all too completely furnishes virtually every combination of examples of ALL of these circumstances.

Answer 3

Makes the country that did the war crime look bad to the world, which could cause a loss of trade, a fall in currency value, sanctions could be put in place by the UN or some nations on the country or even businesses from that country, military incursions could take place, restrictions on where people could travel outside the nation, and many other long term penalties for the government and the country's people.

Answer 4

Exactly what do you mean by "war crime" and whose government are you talking about?

Answer 5

beats me, i think war crimes are illegal, so gov should like give maps to like china so they can help africa