The Case for War Crimes Trials in Yugoslavia

Bibliographic Data

ID3465747
AuthorsTheodor Meron (corresponding author)
Year1993
Volume72
Issue3
Pages122
Publication date1993-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueForeign Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/20045627
OpenAlexW2489129591
LanguageEN
Citations received13

THE NEED TO ASSERT INTERNATIONAL LAW The credibility of international humanitarian law demands a war crimes tribunal to hold accountable those responsible for gross violations in the former Yugoslavia. Opponents in the bitter ethnic and religious conflict have subjected civilians to summary execution, torture, rape, mass internment, deportation, destruction or confisca tion of property and other violations of their rights. Many thousands have died. A war crimes tribunal, sought by the U.N. Security Council, would be the first since the Nuremberg and Far East trials following World War II. The Security Council's decision, embodied in U.N. Resolution 808, derives its binding authority from the U.N. Charter's Chapter VII provisions regarding threats to peace, breaches of peace and acts of aggression. The Security Council's determination that violations of international humanitarian law constitute a threat to

Charter · Credibility · Crimes against humanity · Criminology · Deportation · Genocide · Human rights · Immigration · International humanitarian law · International law · Nuremberg trials · Political science · Politics · Security council · Sociology · Torture · Tribunal · United Nations Charter · War crime · International Law and Human Rights · Law

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