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I mean really the existence of war crimes relies on the existence of treaties between the nations defining what those crimes are. Gonna guess the Fire Nation was not a signatory.
The Nazis weren't signatories to the Nuremberg charter, yet they were judged by it. So there is precedent for judging war crimes without pre-existing law.
I'm also not exactly sure how international law works in a world that only has ~~four~~three countries.
Maybe it's like original sin, and any general in the same army that destroyed 25% of the world's nations, is automatically a war criminal?