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What Are Crimes Against Humanity

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“Acknowledgment of crimes against humanity was a revolutionary development in the international law and was developed as an off shoot of war crime. The customary international law was averse to the acts committed by the belligerent state over the members of the armed forced of the other state during the armed conflict. But there was little, if not any, laws dealing with the acts committed by the belligerent stated on the civilian of the other state. This lack of any law may be attributed to the nature of the armed conflict which was prevalent before the industrial revolution. But with the onset of industrial revolution and invent of the weapons of mass destruction, the nature of armed conflict changed. This led to a inchoate discussion in the international community on the acts which affected the civilian community.” …show more content…

And that exactly was what the allied powers acted after the war.”
“In this paper, the discussion will focus on the evolution of the concept of ‘crimes against humanity’ from the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907 to the Rome Statute of International Criminal Court. The researcher has discussed the legality issues which were faced by the Charter of the International Military Tribunal; the nexus between crimes against humanity and armed conflict as was required by the Charter, ICTY and ICTY and the eventual deviation in the Rome Statute; the inclusion of the discriminatory intent in ICTR and its removal in the Rome

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