The phrase "atrocity command" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing orders or directives related to severe acts of violence or cruelty, often in military or historical discussions.
Example: "The report detailed the atrocity command issued by the leaders, which led to widespread human rights violations."
Alternatives: "cruelty directive" or "inhumane order".
Yamashita was tried for war crimes, and, though he denied knowing of atrocities committed under his command, he was convicted and eventually hanged.
He called on the African Union to act quickly in setting up a court "with a strong focus on command responsibility for atrocities".
It is a matter of historical record that North African troops under French command committed many atrocities in the area known as Ciociaria south of Rome.
The prosecutors have accused him and his co-defendants, Ieng Sary, 86, and Khieu Samphan, 80, of command responsibility for atrocities committed according to their plan and with their involvement.
Chaired on both occasions by Judge Theodor Meron – a Holocaust survivor, former Israeli diplomat and US citizen – a majority of judges ruled that the evidence lacked "specific direction" to the troops under the generals' command to commit atrocities.
Mladic, who earned a fearsome reputation as the "butcher of Bosnia", was brought before the court on Friday after his arrest in a north Serbian village 16 years after commanding the worst atrocity on the continent since the Nazi era.
Mladic was said to be "in poor physical state" after his arrest in a north Serbian village 16 years after commanding the worst atrocity on the continent since the Nazi era.
In "Noah," the notion of God's existence renders the natural order frenetically, jinglingly, miraculously disorderly, and it grants a true believer a free pass for whatever atrocity he believes he's commanded to enact.
Europe's most wanted war crimes suspect, General Ratko Mladic, was arrested in a north Serbian village 16 years after commanding the worst atrocity on the continent since the Nazi era.
The complicity of the Israeli command in the atrocities at Sabra and Shatila was established by an Israeli government report by the Kahan Commission in 1983, which found the military indirectly responsible for the actions of the Phalangists.
