International criminal law: Between law and politics

In: Međunarodni problemi: International problems, Band 65, Heft 1, S. 42-67

Abstract

Crimes against international law are committed by violating the rules of
international humanitarian law during wars or armed conflicts. The
perpetrators of these crimes are under the jurisdiction of international
criminal courts (military or civil, permanent or ad hoc). The process of the
commission of crimes against international law may comprise several different
phases or stadiums. Moreover, such criminal offences rarely appear as the
results of only one person?s activities. On the contrary, in numerous cases
of these criminal offences, accomplice appears as a form of collective
participation of several persons in the commission of one or more crimes
against international law. All these facts represent grounds for the specific
type of criminal responsibility of the perpetrators of crimes against
international law. It is a object of regulation international criminal law
about whose characteristics converse this article.