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331International criminal law — Jurisdiction — National courts — Universal jurisdiction — Genocide — Genocide Convention, 1948, Article 6 — Primary jurisdiction of State where crime committed or international tribunal — Whether precluding jurisdiction of courts in other States — Principle of subsidiarity — Terrorism — "State terrorism" — Whether terrorist crimes committed by foreign nationals in the performance of official functions capable of being the subject of prosecution in national courts of third StateInternational criminal law — Genocide — Intent — Requirement of intent to destroy specific national, ethnic, racial or religious group — Whether "national group" could include both foreigners and nationals targeted collectively in the same country by reason of common characteristics — Whether broad social definition of "national group" corresponding with intent of Genocide Convention, 1948International criminal law — Terrorism — Intent — Whether any requirement of intent to subvert constitutional order — Whether such requirement relating only to State where offence committed or also to State where prosecution broughtInternational criminal law — Principle of non-retroactivity — Scope of prohibition on retroactive laws — Distinction between retroactive creation of new substantive offences and retroactive creation of procedural basis for prosecution of existing offencesRelationship of international law and municipal law — Effect of treaty in municipal law — Principle of supremacy of treaties over municipal law — Genocide Convention — Requirement that signatory States should refrain from exercising jurisdiction over genocide where accused being prosecuted in State where offences committed or by an international tribunal — The law of Spain

International criminal law — Jurisdiction — Principle of universality — Crimes against humanity — Whether crimes of universal jurisdictionJurisdiction — Universal — Crimes against humanity — United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3074 of 1973 — Whether now recognized as enshrining rule of customary international law on universal jurisdiction over such crimes — Conditions for establishment of rules of customary international lawRelationship of municipal law and international law — Treaties — Crimes against international law — Convention against Torture and other Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, 1984 — Articles 4 and 5 — Provisions on jurisdiction of municipal courts — Whether automatically incorporated into municipal legal order or requiring specific implementing legislation — Conditions for direct applicability of treaty provisions — The law of Luxembourg

Die Verhaftung Augusto Pinochets, die Abweisung seiner vermeintlichen Immunität durch die Law Lords und zuletzt die Weigerung des britischen Innenministers, ihm das Auslieferungsverfahren zu ersparen, haben bei den Opfern der Diktatur wie bei den bedingungslosen Anhängern des Generals eine Welle der Emotionen ausgelöst und für politische Krisenstimmung gesorgt. Neben einem Bericht über Reaktionen in Chile werden Interviews mit der Anwältin Fabiola Letelier, der Schwester des 1976 ermordeten Politikers Orlando Letelier, mit dem Madrider Anwalt Carlos Slepoy und mit dem chilenischen Soziologen Tomas Moulian wiedergegeben. (Lat.am Nachr/DÜI)

It is a measure of how fast International Law is moving that the International Court of Justice found itself deciding a question on immunity for international crimes just three years after Pinochet (No 3).1 Yet its decision in Congo v Belgium2 represents something of a return to conservatism in this field, and prompts a re-evaluation of Pinochet. Congo v Belgium may itself come to be seen as at least as significant for the ICJ's—divided—views on the issues which it did not decide, as for the ratio itself.

State immunity — Jurisdiction — Head of state — Scope of immunity of former Head of State — Whether commission of crimes against humanity or other crimes against international law precluding former Head of State from relying on State immunityWar and armed conflict — Enforcement of international humanitarian law — Geneva Conventions, 1949, and Additional Protocols, 1977 — Belgian Law of 1993 incorporating provisions of Conventions and Protocols into domestic law — Requirement of existence of international or internal armed conflictRelationship of municipal law and international law — Crimes against international law — Punishment of crimes against humanity by municipal courts — Whether such crimes forming part of customary international law and jus cogens — Whether such crimes automatically incorporated into domestic legal order — Whether any requirement that crimes against humanity be committed during an armed conflict — Inapplicability of statutory limitation of 346prosecution for crimes against humanity — Whether now recognized as a rule of customary international law evidenced by international treatiesJurisdiction — Universal — Crimes against humanity — United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3074 of 3 December 1973 on international cooperation in punishment of crimes against humanity — Whether now recognized as enshrining rule of customary international law on universal jurisdiction over such crimes — Whether such rule automatically binding in domestic legal order — The law of Belgium

Bericht über den Ablauf des 4. nationalen Protesttages in Chile am 11. August 1983. Darstellung der Krise der Militärdiktatur angesichts wachsender Legitimationsprobleme und zunehmender Geschlossenheit der Opposition und Betrachtung der Hintergründe für die Kabinettsumbildung am Vorabend der Demonstration

Im Dezember 1989 ist in Santiago ein Buch erschienen, in dem Augusto Pinochet kurz vor seiner Entlassung aus dem Präsidentenamt erstmals von sich aus zu Folter und Mord während seiner Regierungszeit Stellung nimmt. Die entsprechenden Passagen werden hier dokumentiert