This paper addresses the question of the relative gravity of crimes against humanity vis-à-vis war crimes. The issue is tackled from a double perspective. First, the categories of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes are compared at the general or legislative level. The analysis is mainly based on international treaties and other instruments that consider these crimes from the viewp...

Abstract Despite being found guilty of egregious acts, crimes against humanity and war crimes, 54 the 90 perpetrators sentenced by International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia ( icty ) were granted unconditional early release uer ). This article argues that did a disservice to two principal expressive purposes punishment - moral condemnation overall norm projected , ‘universal repugnan...

This article will elaborate on the dynamics of Siege Dubrovnik and analyze its implications with special emphasis Battle for Srđ. Based theory (military) defense strategy, focus is city in 1991 war reference to Srđ (on December 6, 1991). By analyzing military documents, as well documents International Criminal Tribunal former Yugoslavia The Hague (ICTY), historical sources, interviews participa...

This paper is intended to explain the urgency of formation International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY), as an ad hoc international court based on United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution No. 827 1993, try perpetrators genocidal crimes against ethnic Bosnian Muslims. The crime genocide originated from conflict that occurred in federation Yugoslavia. research was conduct...

What can the enlightened sectors of the international community do to prevent and halt the proliferation of genocides and massive human rights violations around the planet? We evade the obvious, albeit costliest answer—to arrest them before, or at least while they are happening, by any means necessary: to stop them by stopping them. Instead, we focus on actions after the fact. One method, which...

The issue of “justice versus peace” has long been at the center of the controversy on international prosecutions for crimes in transitional and post-conflict societies. Opponents of international prosecutions have taken umbrage at the presumption that justice can only be rendered through criminal prosecutions by an international tribunal often far removed from local realities and voiced their c...