Meanwhile, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted last week to pass two resolutions: one calling for support of the creation of
an international war crimes tribunal to prosecute those involved in Syria, and the other calling the crimes perpetrated by ISIS against Christians and other minorities there «war crimes,» «crimes against humanity,» and «genocide.»
Not exact matches
It is claimed by some that terrorist attacks are not acts of
war but
crimes to be punished by
international tribunals.
It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of
international criminal
tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «
crimes against humanity,» about how far the global
war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary
international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.
It is therefore not surprising thatOHCHR, after a thorough inquiry, came to the conclusion that the above - mentioned barbaric acts against refugees constituted
war crimes,
crimes against humanity and possibly
crimes of genocide, subject to confirmation by a competent
international criminal court or
tribunal.34 So far, no charge has been brought forward.
He is quickly talked into a new job as a prosecutor for the
International Criminal Court in The Hague, a
war crimes tribunal.
The conference will take up such issues as the nature of domestic and
international crimes committed; which high - level Bush officials, including Federal judges and Members of Congress, are chargeable with
war crimes; which foreign and domestic
tribunals can be used to prosecute them; and the setting up of an umbrella coordinating committee with representatives of legal groups concerned about the
war crimes such as the Center for Constitutional Rights, ACLU, among others.