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The Kalshoven Commission*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2009

Extract

By Resolution 780 of October 6, 1992 the United Nations Security Council requested the Secretary-General

to establish, as a matter of urgency, an impartial Commission of Experts to examine and analyse the information submitted […] together with such further information as the Commission of Experts may obtain through its own investigations or efforts […] with a view to providing the Secretary-General with its conclusions on the evidence of grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and other violations of international law committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.

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Current Legal Developments
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law 1993

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References

1 U.N. G AOR, Forty-seventh Session, Report of the International Law Commission on the Work of its Forty forth Session, May 4 – July 24, 1992, Suppl. No. 10 (A/47/10). See also Julius Stone and Robert Woelzel, Towards a Feasible International Criminal Court (1970); Benjamin Ferencz, An International Criminal Court (1980); Cherif Bassiouni, Draft Statute International Criminal Tribunal (1992).

2 United Nations War Crimes Commission, History of the United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Development of the Lawsof War( 1948). See entry ‘War Crimes’ by Hans-Heinrich Jescheck, in R. Bernardt, 4 Encyclopedia of Public International Law (1982).

3 See Study Concerning the Right to Restitution, Compensation and Rehabilitation for Victims of Gross Violations of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Second Progress Report, submitted by Theo van Boven, Special Rapporteur of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities (E./CN.4/Sub2./1992/8).