Criminal Law Reform and Transitional Justice: Human Rights Perspectives for Sudan by Lutz Oette

Author:Lutz Oette [Oette, Lutz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, Human Rights, Law, International
ISBN: 9781409497790
Google: OiOEFZvsysMC
Goodreads: 17352224
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: 2013-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

III. Accountability for International Crimes

International crimes: Nature, practice and concerns

Genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and torture, as well as certain other offences, constitute international crimes, the commission of which have caused immense suffering, such as recently in the course of conflicts in former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan. These are egregious offences that carry individual liability and that states have agreed to prevent and punish, either before national or international tribunals. The primary objective of prevention has given rise to the responsibility to protect populations from international crimes.1 However, recent experience demonstrates, in former Yugoslavia and Rwanda but also elsewhere, not least Sudan itself, that states and the international community at large have failed to prevent the commission of such crimes, which commonly equally constitute serious violations of human rights (and, where committed in a conflict, of humanitarian law). The lack of accountability for international crimes is increasingly seen as contributing to the perpetuation of serious violations resulting in impunity, which has been defined as:

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