Hostname: page-component-5c6d5d7d68-pkt8n Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-09-01T14:57:49.451Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Armando dos Santos v. Prosecutor General

Timor-Leste.  15 July 2003 .

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Get access

Abstract

Territory — Sovereignty — Occupation — Non-self-governing territories — East Timor — Portuguese colony — Indonesia occupying East Timor — Political turmoil and violence — Independence — Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste — United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (“UNTAET”) — UNTAET Regulations — Constitution of Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste — Applicable law — Whether Indonesian law ever validly in force in East Timor

International criminal law — Crimes against humanity — Genocide — Definition — Whether defendant committing genocide in East Timor during political turmoil and violence — UNTAET Regulation 2000/15, Section 5.1 — Whether Special Panel erring in finding defendant lacking necessary mens rea for genocide under Section 5.1 of Regulation — Requirements under Section 5.1 — Whether requirement that defendant aware of widespread or systematic nature of attacks against civilian population throughout whole territory of East Timor — Applicability of Section 5.1 — Applicable law — The law of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste

Type
Case Report
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2010

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)