What is a war crime?

By Tarik Kafala BBC News

The trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic at The Hague throws a renewed spotlight on the prosecution of war crimes.
But what exactly are war crimes? What body of laws do they refer to and who has the right to try a suspect for such crimes?

Radovan Karadzic is set to follow Slobodan Milosevic to The Hague

The concept of war crimes is a recent one. Before World War II, it was generally accepted that the horrors of war were in the nature of war.

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How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

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