Trying Tyrants for Mass Atrocity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12354889 |
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| Authors | GIDEON BOAS (0000-0002-2848-4161, La Trobe University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 107-110 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Alternative Law Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1037-969X • E-ISSN: 2398-9084 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1037969x0903400207 |
| OpenAlex | W2247113739 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
An extraordinary focus on the criminal responsibility of leaders for mass atrocity has developed since the tentative revival of international criminal law in the early 1990s. Ironically, it was images of emaciated concentration camp detainees in Bosnia reminiscent of Auschwitz – and in Europe’s backyard – that prompted the creation of the first international criminal tribunal since Nuremberg and Tokyo. The creation of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), let alone the creation a year later of its sister Tribunal in Rwanda, had been an improbable idea only years earlier. Indeed, while the idea of a permanent international criminal court had been on the agenda of the United Nations since the end of the Second World War, any serious work had been frozen by Cold War politics and the impossibility of getting any agreement on how to treat mass atrocity, much less determine what was mass atrocity: indeed, a great deal depended on who was committing the atrocity and where and, at any rate, there was an unhealthy tradition of allowing tyrannous leaders to wreak havoc as long as they kept it in their own backyards
Cold war · Criminal law · Criminal responsibility · Impossibility · International law · Political science · Politics · Tribunal · War crime · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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