Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-lnqnp Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-28T13:29:01.041Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Case Analysis: Crimes Against Humanity After Tadić

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2004

Yoram Dinstein
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Crimes against humanity were first defined, for the purposes of the Nuremberg Trial, in 1945. Since then, numerous international legal texts have incorporated the concept, the latest being the Rome Statute of the ICC, 1998. The different texts offer diverse definitions of crimes against humanity, which are traced in the article. Although the precise outlines of the crimes change from one definition to another, it is clear that the core has crystallized as an integral part of customary international law. In the Tadić case, the ICTY had to address several crucial issues relating to crimes against humanity. The judgments on appeal will serve as precedents for the removal of the linkage between crimes against humanity and armed conflict, the exclusion of isolated attacks against civilians and the irrelevance of the personal motives of the defendant.

Keywords

Crimes against humanityWar crimesProtection of civilians in armed conflictNurembergInternational Criminal CourtInternational Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Type
HAGUE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS: International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Information
Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , June 2000 , pp. 373 - 393
Copyright
© 2000 Kluwer Law International

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)