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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"War crimes."”.
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Film evidence in war crimes trials: Two case studies
… of atrocity film evidence within international war crimes trials has been a controversial issue, in part, due to its conflict with the conventional common law rule against admitting hearsay evidence into trials and relative to "fair trial" norms. Such controversies are particularly evident in …
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Misplaced Justice: the Hadamar War Crimes Trial of Irmgard Huber
As the first mass atrocity trial following World War II, The Hadamar War Crimes Trial established precedents involving jurisdiction and individual accountability which were used for the prosecution of major war criminals during the Nuremberg Trials. The Hadamar Trial, officially known as United …
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Narratives of a Fallen Army: Japanese Veterans' Concepts of Defeat and War Crimes Responsibility in World War Two
… experienced different types of defeat in World War Two (WWII) both during and after the war, including loss in battles and war crimes trials. This dissertation analyses Japanese veterans’ postwar narratives in relation to the concepts of defeat and addresses the issue of war crimes …
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Karo nusikaltimų traktuotė tarptautiniuose teisės aktuose ir LR BK /
… provides a detailed analysis of the approach to war crimes in the instruments of the International law and in the Criminal code of the Republic of Lithuania. First of all, the conception of war crimes in international documents is analized, with an objective to provide a clear and comprehensive …
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Multivariate Analysis of War Crime Behaviour: Implications for the International Criminal Court
To prosecute perpetrators of war crimes the International Criminal Court (ICC) must connect the physical actions of the offence and ‘most responsible’ offenders charged with planning, instigating and intent on carrying out crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes of …
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Rotten to the Corps: Understanding the Human Rights Consequences of Military Failure Through the Eyes of Russian Prisoners of War
… failure contributing to human rights abuses and war crimes. Sixty interviews with Russian prisoners of war conducted by Ukrainian journalists published online were analyzed to determine which specific factors of Russia’s military failure contributed to human rights abuses and war crimes in …
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Studies of Editorials of Chinese Newspapers in Regard to Anti-Japanese War (1937-1945).
… sixty years have passed since China's Resistance War against Japan in 1937-1945 ended. Chinese people made a significant contribution to winning the victory over Japan. Chinese newspapers and magazines, especially editorials at that time, played a key role in the propaganda of the War of …
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The scope of war crimes against peace-keeping personnel : Do Articles 8 (2) (b) (iii) and (e) (iiD ICC- Statute and 4 (b) SCSL- Statute fulfil the requirements of the principle of specificify in international law?
… is the aim of this paper to examine whether the war crimes of intentionally directed attacks against peacekeepers, in its current version, meets the requirement of specificity. This paper will argue that the notion of the principle of legality (nullum crime sine lege) in the ICC-Statute witnesses …
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International Crimes as Familiar Spectacles: Socially Constructed Understandings of Atrocity and the Visibility Politics of International Criminal Law
… social and legal understandings of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Utilizing a social constructivist, interactional legal theory analytical framework, I argue that aesthetic considerations play a major role in identifying these international crimes. The “visibility politics” …
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Progress and challenges of implementing the Rome statute of the international criminal court in Uganda
… upon the ICC jurisdiction over the international crimes namely: the crime of genocide; crimes against humanity; war crimes and the crime of aggression
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'When the people are made the enemy': Human Rights, Military Doctrine and the Path to Atrocity in Vietnam and El Salvador
The Vietnam and Salvadoran wars were marked by examples of some of the worst atrocities committed during the course of twentieth century conflict. The massacres at My Lai in Vietnam and El Mozote in El Salvador came to be regarded by many as the defining actions of those wars. These tragedies, …
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Ukraine’s Quest for Justice: Accountability for Atrocities Committed in the Russia-Ukraine War
… potentially falling under the categories of war crimes and crimes against humanity. This thesis aims to explore whether these apparent human rights and humanitarian law violations merit international prosecution. It also assesses the suitability and feasibility of various mechanisms, such as …
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Identifying and enhancing forensic science skills in the investigation and prosecution of war criminals within international proceedings
… international context of the investigation of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide is relatively underdeveloped, only being employed significantly as recently as the 1980s. The inter-related disciplines of forensic archaeology, anthropology and pathology enable investigators to …
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International Law and Counter Terrorism
… the perspectives of international criminal law, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The thesis highlights the complexities and limitations of current international anti-terrorism conventions and statutes, emphasizing the need for more robust and comprehensive legal frameworks. By comparing …
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The responsibility to protect (R2P): an analysis of the fulfillment of the obligation borne by the Nigerian Government and the international community to protect the Nigerian population from Boko Haram
… to protect their populations from genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing. I have argued that if a state fails to fulfil its legal obligation to protect its population from mass violations of human rights, the principle of state sovereignty and its accompanying norm …
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General Ishii Shiro: His Legacy is That of Genius and Madman
… feel the Japanese should acknowledge these as war crimes. When the Japanese left Manchuria, they left the world’s largest chemical waste dump behind, and even to this day the government refuses to admit the actions of Unit 731. The information on biological warfare that the Japanese discovered …
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The Free University of New York: The New Left's Self-Education and Transborder Activism
… liberation movements created the anti-Vietnam War group May 2nd Movement, from which the Free University was born. Although FUNY only existed for a short period of time, from 1965 to 1968 it functioned as a center for radical education and politics for intellectuals in leftist circles within …
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Retrospectivity at Nuremberg: the nature and limits of a Schmittian analysis.
… of criminal law in the context of international War Crimes Trials, specifically the empirical model presented by the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals 1945-46 at the end of the Second World War. Secondly, it evaluates the theoretical perspectives and ambiguities within the writings of …
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