Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Table of cases
- Table of treaties
- Table of Security Council resolutions
- Table of General Assembly resolutions
- Abbreviations
- 1 The framework
- 2 The preconditions of a NIAC
- 3 Thresholds and interaction of armed conflicts
- 4 Insurgent armed groups and individuals
- 5 Foreign intervention in a NIAC
- 6 Recognition
- 7 State responsibility
- 8 The principal LONIAC treaty provisions
- 9 Additional treaty texts
- 10 NIAC war crimes
- 11 LONIAC customary international law
- 12 LONIAC and human rights law
- Conclusions
- Index of persons
- Index of subjects
- References
10 - NIAC war crimes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Table of cases
- Table of treaties
- Table of Security Council resolutions
- Table of General Assembly resolutions
- Abbreviations
- 1 The framework
- 2 The preconditions of a NIAC
- 3 Thresholds and interaction of armed conflicts
- 4 Insurgent armed groups and individuals
- 5 Foreign intervention in a NIAC
- 6 Recognition
- 7 State responsibility
- 8 The principal LONIAC treaty provisions
- 9 Additional treaty texts
- 10 NIAC war crimes
- 11 LONIAC customary international law
- 12 LONIAC and human rights law
- Conclusions
- Index of persons
- Index of subjects
- References
Summary
Crimes against humanity and genocide
In the present chapter, we shall concentrate on NIAC war crimes. This is shorthand for serious violations of LONIAC for which individuals are personally accountable (see supra 42). We shall not canvass other international crimes that are possibly relevant to NIACs. In particular, we shall not enquire into crimes against humanity or genocide, although these international crimes can be – and have been – committed while a country is consumed by a NIAC. The elision is due to the fact that there is no built-in direct linkage between crimes against humanity or genocide and a NIAC.
Since its treaty origins in 1948, it has consistently been made clear that the crime of genocide (as defined in Article 1 of the Genocide Convention) can be ‘committed in time of peace or in time of war’. A NIAC is not posited. In the Kayishema et al. Judgment of 1999, the ICTR Trial Chamber held that a NIAC under AP/II was in progress in Rwanda, yet massacres of Tutsis (emanating from an elaborate policy of genocide) were perpetrated in certain areas without any direct link to the hostilities.
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