1. U.N. Doc. S/RES/808(1993);
U.N. Doc. S/RES/827 (1993).
2. Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to paragraph 2
of Security Council resolution 808 (1993) and Annex thereto, U.N. Doc. S/25704
("Report of the Secretary-General").
3. IT/32/Rev. 10.
4. The Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Conditions
of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field, 12 Aug. 1949, 75 U.N.T.S.
970 ("Geneva Convention I"); the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration
of the Conditions of the Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces
at Sea, 12 Aug. 1949, 75 U.N.T.S. 971 ("Geneva Convention II"); the
Geneva Convention relative to the treatment of Prisoners of War, 12 Aug. 1949,
75 U.N.T.S. 972 ("Geneva Convention III"); the Geneva Convention relative
to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, 12 Aug. 1949, 75 U.N.T.S.
973 ("Geneva Convention IV").
5. Decision of the Trial Chamber on the Application by the
Prosecutor for a Formal Request for Deferral, Prosecutor v. Tadic. Case
No. IT-94-1, T.Ch. I, 8 Nov. 1994.
6. IT/73/Rev. 3.
7. Decision on the Prosecutor's Motion requesting Protective
Measures for Victims and Witnesses, Prosecutor v. Tadic. Case No. IT-94-1,
T.Ch. II, 10 Aug. 1995.
8. Decision on the Defence Motion on Jurisdiction, Prosecutor
v. Tadic., Case No. IT-94-1, T.Ch. II, 10 Aug. 1995.
9. Decision on the Defence Motion for Interlocutory Appeal
on Jurisdiction, Prosecutor v. Tadic, Case No. IT-94-1, A.C., 2 Oct.
1995 ("Appeals Chamber Decision").
10. Decision on the Prosecutor's Motion requesting Protective
Measures for Witness L, Prosecutor v. Tadic. Case No. IT-94-1, T.Ch.
II, 14 Nov. 1995.
11. Decision on the Defence Motion on the Principle of Non-bis-in-idem,
Prosecutor v. Tadic, Case No. IT-94-1, T.Ch. II, 14 Nov. 1995; Decision
on the Defence Motion on the Form of the Indictment, Prosecutor v. Tadic,
Case No. IT-94-1, T.Ch. II, 14 Nov. 1995.
12. Decision on the Prosecutor's Motion requesting Delayed
Release of Recordings of the Proceedings, Prosecutor v. Tadic, Case No.
IT-94-1, T.Ch. II, 15 Nov. 1995.
13. Decision on the Defence Motion to Prevent the Contamination
of Testimony, Prosecutor v. Tadic. Case No. IT-94-1, T.Ch. II, 3 May
1996.
14. Decision on the Prosecution Motion to compel Disclosure
of Statements taken by the Defence of Witnesses who will Testify, Prosecutor
v. Tadic, Case No. IT-94-1, T.Ch. II, 7 May 1996.
15. Decision on the Prosecution Motion to Withdraw Counts
2 through 4 of the Indictment Without Prejudice, Prosecutor v. Tadic,
Case No. IT-94-1, T.Ch. II, 25 Jun. 1996
16. Decision on the Defence Motions to Summon and Protect
Defence Witnesses and on the Giving of Evidence via Video-link, Prosecutor
v. Tadic, Case No. IT-94-1, T.Ch. II, 25 Jun 1996.
17. Decision on the Defence Motion to Protect Defence Witnesses,
Prosecutor v. Tadic, Case No. IT-94-1, T.Ch. II, 16 Aug. 1996.
18. Decision on the Third Confidential Motion to Protect Defence
Witnesses, Prosecutor v. Tadic, Case No. IT-94-1, T.Ch. II, 20 Sept.
1996.
19. Decision on Fourth Confidential Motion to Protect Defence
Witnesses, Prosecutor v. Tadic, Case No. IT-94-1, T.Ch. II, 11 Oct. 1996.
20. Decision on the Defence Motion requesting Video-link for
Defence Witness Jelena Gajic, Prosecutor v. Tadic, Case No. IT-94-1,
T.Ch. II, 17 Oct. 1996.
21. Decision on the Defence Motion requesting Facial Distortion
of Broadcast Image and Protective Measures for Defence Witness D, Prosecutor
v. Tadic, Case No. IT-94-1, T.Ch. II, 18 Oct. 1996.
22. Order for the Prosecution to Investigate the False Testimony
of Dragan Opacic, Prosecutor v. Tadic, Case No. IT-94-1, T.Ch.II, 10
Dec. 1996.
23. Decision on Defence Motion on Hearsay, Prosecutor v.
Tadic, Case No. IT-94-1, T.Ch. II, 5 Aug. 1996.
24. Decision on Defence Motion to Dismiss Charges, Prosecutor
v. Tadic,, Case No. IT-94-1, T.Ch. II, 13 Sep. 1996.
25. Decision on the Prosecution Motion for Production of Defence
Witness Statements, Prosecutor v. Tadic, Case No. IT-94-1, T.Ch. II,
27 Nov. 1996.
26. U.N. Doc. S/RES/752 (1992).
27. Report of the Secretary-General concerning the situation
in Bosnia and Herzegovina, U.N. Doc. A/47/747 .
28. Notification ex Rule 68[sic](A)(ii)(a), filed 10 Apr.
1996.
29. Amended Notification ex Rule 67(A)(II)(a), filed 3 May
1996
30. See, for example, R. v. Dossi (1918) 13
Cr. App. Rep. 158, 87 L.K.J.B. 1024; R. v. James (1923) 17 Cr. App. Rep.
116 (Court of Appeal).
31. See Halsbury's Laws of England (London, Butterworths,
1990), Volume 11(2), para. 926.
32. Sub-rules 89(C) and (D).
33. Virginia Morris and Michael P. Scharf, An Insider's
Guide to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (New
York, Transnational Publishers, 1995), Vol. 1, 263.
34. See Article 342, Code of Criminal Procedure, Belgium;
Section 896, Criminal Code, Denmark; Article 261, Criminal Procedure Code, Germany;
Article 177, Code of Criminal Procedure, Greece; Article 188, Code of Criminal
Procedure, Italy; Article 177, Code of Criminal Procedure, Portugal; Article
741, Code of Criminal Procedure, Spain.
35. See Rej., 20 Jun. 1864.
36. Cass., 9 Jun. 1969, Pas., 1969, I, 912.
37. See Claus Roxin, Strafverfarensrecht (24th
ed. Munich, 1995), 90.
38. See Hoge Raad, 19 Oct. 1954, NJ 1955; Hoge Raad,
15 Nov. 1983, DD 84.132.
39. Derecho Procesal Penal, (Libreria Bosch,
Madrid, 1945), Tomos II, 238.
40. See Article 347, 1977 Code of Criminal Procedure,
SFRY; Article 35, 1979 Law of Criminal Procedure, China, (which requires only
that the evidence be complete and reliable).
41. Decision on the Defence Motion on Hearsay, supra.
42. Appeals Chamber Decision, para. 81.
43. Id.,para. 89.
44. Id.,paras. 141-142.
45. Id., para. 70.
46. Jean Pictet (gen. ed.) Commentary, Geneva Convention
for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members
of Armed Forces at Sea, Convention II (ICRC, Geneva, 1960), 33 ("Commentary,
Geneva Convention II"); Jean Pictet (gen. ed.) Commentary, Geneva Convention
Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, Convention III, (ICRC, Geneva,
1960), 37 ("Commentary, Geneva Convention III").
47. (ICRC, Geneva, 1952) 49-50.
48. See General Assembly Resolution 46/237, U.N. Doc.
A/RES/46/237.
49. Appeals Chamber Decision, para. 67.
50. See Security Council resolution 713, U.N. Doc.
S/RES/713 (1991).
51. Security Council resolution 757, U.N. Doc S/RES/757 (1993).
52. See Security Council resolution 827, U.N. Doc s/res/827
(1993).
53. Appeals Chamber Decision, para. 70.
54. See Article 4, I.L.C. Draft Code of Crimes Against
the Peace and Security of Mankind, ("I.L.C. Draft Code") Report
of the International Law Commission on the Work of its Forty-eighth session,
6 May - 26 July 1996, G.A.O.R., 51st Sess., Supp. No. 10, 30, U.N. Doc.
A/51/10.
55. See Appeals Chamber Decision, paras.79-85.
56. Id., para. 81.
57. Geneva Convention IV, supra.
58. Jean Pictet (gen. ed.), Commentary, Geneva Convention
Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Convention
IV, (ICRC, Geneva, 1958), 47 ("Commentary, Geneva Convention IV").
59. Id., 47.
60. Georg Schwarzenberger, International Law as applied
by International Courts and Tribunals (Stevens & Sons, London, 1968),
Vol II, 174, 176.
61. British Manual of Military Law, Part III (The Law
of War on Land), (1958), para. 501
62. Schwarzenberger, 317, supra.
63. Security Council Resolution 752, U.N. Doc. S/RES/752 (1992).
64. See Appeals Chamber Decision, paras. 73-77.
65. See Appeals Chamber Decision, para.73.
66. I.A. Shearer, Starke's International Law (11 ed.,
Butterworths, Sydney, 1994), 276.
67. Geneva Convention IV, supra.
68. Commentary, Geneva Convention IV, 212, supra.
69. See Appeals Chamber Decision, para.76.
70. 1986 I.C.J. Reports,14.
71. Id., para. 219.
72. Id., para. 109.
73. Id., para. 109.
74. Id., para. 115 (emphasis added).
75. Id., para. 109.
76. Id., para. 112.
77. See Commentary to Article 8, I.L.C. Draft Articles
on State Responsibility, Report of the International Law Commission on the
Work of its Twenty-sixth session, Ybk I.L.C., 1974, Vol. II, Pt 1, 283-286,
U.N. Doc A/9610/Rev.1.
78. Nicaragua case, supra, Sep. Op. Judge Ago, para.16.
79. See Amerasinghe, Studies in International Law
(1968), 215; Wedderburn, 6 I.C.L.Q. (1957) 290
80. Appeals Chamber Decision, paras. 89, 98, 102; Nicaragua
case, para. 218, supra.
81. Appeals Chamber Decision, para. 94.
82. Id., para.98; Nicaragua case, para. 218,
supra.
83. See Nicaragua case, supra.
84. Appeals Chamber Decision, para. 134.
85. London, 8 August 1945, 85 U.N.T.S. 251.
86. See Appeals Chamber Decision, para. 138, citing
the Report of the Secretary-General, para. 47, supra; see also Egon
Schwelb, Crimes Against Humanity, 23 Brit. Ybk. Int'l L. 178, 178 (1946).
87. See the Report of the Commission on the Responsibility
of the Authors of the War and on Enforcement of Penalties, established at the
Peace Conference in Paris on 25 Jan 1919, which found, inter alia, that
violations of "the elementary laws of humanity" had occurred. Reports
of the Majority and Dissenting Reports of American and Japanese Members of the
Commission of Responsibilities (Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1919). See also
Declaration of 28 May 1915 of the Governments of France, Great Britain and
Russia denouncing the massacres of the Armenian population in Turkey as "crimes
against humanity and civilization for which all the members of the Turkish Government
will be held responsible together with its agents implicated in the massacres",
quoted in Egon Schwelb, Crimes Against Humanity, 23 Brit. Ybk. Int'l
L. 178, 181 (1946). See also History of the United Nations War Crimes
Commission and the Development of Laws of War 32-38 (The United Nations War
Crimes Commission: London, 1948) ("War Crimes Commission").
88. War Crimes Commission, 188, supra.
89. Antonio Cassese, Violence and Law in the Modern Age
109 (1988).
90. See Schwelb, supra at 183-187; see also
War Crimes Commission supra at 174-177.
91. Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International
Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany, (1947) ("Nürnberg Judgment")
219-224.
92. Id., 253-254.
93. Id.
94. Id., 254-255.
95. Id., 254.
96. See M. Cherif Bassiouni, Crimes Against Humanity in
International Criminal Law. 7, 114-119 (Martinus Nijhoff: Dordrecht, 1992).
97. Nürnberg Judgment, 174, 218, supra.
98. Id., 218.
99. Article 5(c).
100. Official Gazette of the Control Council for Germany,
No. 3, p. 22, Military Government Gazette, Germany, British Zone of Control,
No. 5, p. 46, Journal Officiel du Commandement en Chef Francais en Allemagne,
No. 12 of 11 January 1946, Art. II(c) ("Control Council Law No. 10").
101. U.N.G.A. res. 95 (I) of 11 December 1946.
102. Nürnberg Principles, Ybk I.L.C., 1950, Vols I and II.
103. Report of the Secretary-General, para. 35, supra.
104. See, e.g., the Convention on the Non-Applicability
of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity of 26 Nov.
1968` at Art. I (deciding that no statutory limitation shall apply to crimes
against humanity, "even if such acts do not constitute a violation of the
domestic law of the country in which they were committed"); I.L.C. Draft
Code at Art. 18 (including crimes against humanity as a crime against peace
and security of mankind) and Art. 2 (providing for individual responsibility
for crimes against peace and security of mankind); the I.L.C.'s Draft Statute
for a Permanent International Criminal Court, Report of the I.L.C. on the
work of its Forty-sixth Session, U.N. Doc. G.A.O.R. A/49/10 ("I.L.C.
Draft Statute") at Art. 20 (including crimes against humanity as a crime
within the jurisdiction of the court and one which is a crime under general
international law); the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime
of Genocide ("Genocide Convention7quot;), 9 Dec. 1948, 78 U.N.T.S. 277,
at Art. 1 (noting that genocide is a crime under international law) and Art.
IV (establishing individual criminal responsibility), and the International
Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid ("Convention
on Apartheid"), 30 Nov. 1973, 1015 U.N.T.S. 243, at Art. I (declaring that
apartheid is a crime against humanity and that inhumane acts resulting from
apartheid are crimes violating international law) and Art. III (attaching individual
international criminal responsibility for the crime of apartheid).
105. Appeals Chamber Decision, para. 141
106. Id.
107. Nürnberg Charter, Art. 6(c), supra.
108. Report of the Secretary-General, para. 47,
supra; see also I.L.C. Draft Code, 96, supra.
109. The Statute of the International Tribunal for Rwanda,
("Rwanda Statute") Art. 3,U.N. Doc. S/RES/955 (1994).
110. Appeals Chamber Decision, para. 141.
111. Id., para. 78.
112. Id., para. 70.
113. Id., para. 78; see also id. para. 141.
114. Id., para. 88.
115. See Provisional Verbatim Record of the 3217th
Meeting, U.N. Doc. S/PV.3217 (25 May 1993), 11 (statement of France), 16 (statement
of the United States, included in which was the statement that the United States
understood that the other members of the Council shared its view), 45 (where
the Russian Federation used the formulation "during an armed conflict"
and 19 (where the United Kingdom used "in time of armed conflict").
116. Appeals Chamber Decision, para. 70.
117. Morris and Scharf, 83, supra.
118. Appeals Chamber Decision, paras. 67, 70.
119. Prosecutor pre-trial brief filed 10 Apr.1996, quoting
Appeals Chamber Decision; see also Nicaragua case, para. 218, supra.
120. See Article 50(3) of the Protocol Additional
to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection
of Victims of International Armed Conflicts ("Protocol I") (ICRC,
Geneva, 1977); see also Fédération Nationale des Déportés et Internés
Résistants et Patriotes and Others v. Barbie (Barbie case); Final Report
of the Commission of Experts Established Pursuant to Security Council Resolution
780 (1992), ("Final Report of the Commission of Experts"),
paras. 77-78, U.N. Doc. S/1994/674.
121. Appeals Chamber Decision, para. 102; see also
Nicaragua case, para. 218, supra.
122. Protocol I, supra.
123. War Crimes Commission, 193, supra.
124. Henri Meyrowitz, La répression par les tribunaux
allemands des crimes contre l'humanité et de l'appartenance à une organisation
criminelle 282 (1960) (unofficial translation).
125. Schwelb, 191, supra.
126. Final Report of the Commission of Experts, para.
78, supra.
127. Id., para. 78.
128. (1985) I.L.R. 125.
129. Cited by the Cour de Cassation, id. 139.
130. Id., 140.
131. Id.
132. See Jean-Louis Clergerie, La notion de crime
contre l'humanité, Revue du Droit Public 1251, 1251 n.3 (1988).
133. Id., 128.
134. Id., 134, 136.
135. The Prosecutor v. Mile Msksic, Miroslav Radic, and
Veselin Sljivancanin, Review of the Indictment Pursuant to Rule 61 of the
Rules of Procedure and Evidence, Case No. IT-95-13-R61, T.Ch.I, 3 Apr. 1996
("Vukovar Hospital Decision").
136. Id., para. 29.
137. Id., para. 32.
138. See Schwelb, 191; supra; see also Memorandum
of the Secretary-General on The Charter and Judgement of the Nürnberg Tribunal;
History and Analysis, 67 (U.N. Publication, Sales No. 1949, V. 7).
139. Decision on the Form of the Indictment, supra.
140. War Crimes Commission, 179, supra.
141. Report of the Secretary-General, para. 48, supra.
142. Nürnberg Judgment, 247, supra, (emphasis
added).
143. Vukovar Hospital Decision, para. 30, supra.
144. Report of the Committee on the Establishment of a
Permanent International Criminal Court ("Report of the Ad Hoc Committee"),
U.N. Doc. G.A.O.R. A/50/22 (1995) at 17.
145. I.L.C. Draft Code, supra.
146. Report of the I.L.C. on the work of its Forty-ninth
Session, (1994) G.A.O.R., 49th sess., Supp. No. 10, U.N. Doc. A/49/10, p.
76, emphasis added.
147. Report of the International Law Commission on the
Work of its Forty-third Session, (1991) G.A.O.R., 46th sess. Supp. No. 10,
U.N. Doc. A/46/10 ("I.L.C. 1991 Report"), at 265.
148. I.L.C. Draft Code, 94-95, supra.
149. See the Trial of Josef Altstötter and Others
("Justice case"), Vol. VI, Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals
(U.N. War Crimes Commission London, 1949) ("Law Reports") 79-80
and see the Trial of Fredrich Flick and Five Others ("Flick
case"), Vol. IX, Law Reports, 51, in which isolated cases of
atrocities and persecution were held to be excluded from the definition of crimes
against humanity.
150. Report of I.L.C. Special Rapporteur D. Thiam, Ybk I.L.C.
1986, Vol. II, I.L.C. A/CN.4/466 ("Report of the Special Rapporteur"),
para. 93, referring to the conclusion of Henri Meyrowitz.
151. Henri Meyrowitz quoted in Report of Special Rapporteur,
para. 89, supra.
152. Vukovar Hospital Decision, para. 30, supra.
153. See, e.g., cases 2, 4, 13, 14, 15, 18, 23, 25,
31 and 34 of Entscheidungen Des Obersten Gerichtshofes Für Die Britische Zone
in Strafsachen, Vol. I.
154. See, e.g., Barbie case supra, the Final Report of
the Commission of Experts, para. 84, supra, J. Graven, Les crimes
contre l'humanité, Receuil de Cours (1950) and Catherine Grynfogel, Le
concept de crime contre l'humanité: Hier, aujourd'hui et demain, Revue de
Droit Pénal et de Criminologie 13 (1994); but see Leila Sadat Wexler,
The Interpretation of the Nuremberg Principles by the French Court of Cassation:
From Touvier to Barbie and Back Again, 32 Colum. J. Trans. L. 289 (1994).
155. See the Medical Case, Vol. II Trials of War Criminals
before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10, 181,
196-98 (Washington: US Govt. Printing Office 1950).
156. Memorandum of the Secretary-General on the Charter and
Judgment of the Nürnberg Tribunal, 67, supra.
157. U.N. Doc. S/RES/955 (1994).
158. Amnesty International, The International Criminal
Court: Making the Right Choices - Part I 40 (1997).
159. Report of the Secretary-General, para. 48,
supra.
160. See Provisional Verbatim Record, 11 (statement
of France, listing national, ethnic, racial and religious grounds), 16 (statement
of the United States, listing national, political, ethnic, racial, gender and
religious grounds) and 45 (statement of the Russian Federation, listing national,
political, ethnic, religious or other grounds), supra.
161. 75 I.L.R. 362-63 (1987).
162. See also Barbie case, 137, supra.
163. Bassiouni, 248-249, supra.
164. The Prosecutor v. Dragan Nikolic, Review of the
Indictment Pursuant to Rule 61 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence, Case
No. IT-94-2-R61, para. 26, T.Ch.I, 20 Oct. 1995.
165. I.L.C. Draft Code, 94, supra.
166. Id., 13.
167. I.L.C. 1991 Report, 266.
168. Kadic v. Karadzic, 70 F.3d 232 (2nd Cir. 1995),
cert. denied, 64 U.S.L.W. 3832 (18 Jun. 1996).
169. R. v. Finta, [1994] 1 R.C.S., 701.
170. Id.
171. Case No 38, Annual Digest and Reports of Public International
Law Cases for the Year 1947, 100-101 (Butterworth & Co., London 1951).
172. See, e.g., Vol. I Entscheidungen des Obersten
Gerichtshofes Für Die Britische Zone in Strafsachen, case 2, 6-10; case 4, 19-25;
case 23, 91-95; case 25, 105-110; case 31, 122-126; case 34, 141-143.
173. Id. at case 16, 60-62.
174. OGHBZ, Decision of the District Court (Landgericht)
Hamburg of 11 Nov. 1948, STS 78/48, Justiz und NS-Verbrechen II, 1945-1966,
491, 499 (unofficial translation).
175. Report of the Secretary-General, para. 54.
176. Id., para. 34.
177. See Georg Schwarzenberger, The Law of Armed
Conflict 462-66.
178. War Crimes Commission, 9, supra
179. Id., 33-34.
180. Id., 38 (citing Report of the Commission
on Responsibilities).
181. Id., 43-44 (citing Treaty of Versailles Art.
229).
182. Nürnberg Charter, supra.
183. Control Council Law No. 10, supra.
184. Nürnberg Judgment, 52, supra.
185. Id., 26.
186. I.L.C. Draft Code, 19, supra. See also Brownlie,
Principles of Public International Law (4th ed. 1990) 562; Dinstein,
International Criminal Law, 20 Israel L. Rev. 206 (1985); Oppenheim,
International Law (8th ed. 1993); Röling, Criminal Responsibility
for Violations of the Laws of War, 12 Belgian Rev. Int'l L. 8-26 (1976)
(all in agreement that the principles of the Nürnberg Charter now form a part
of the body of international law).
187. Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, U.N.G.A. resolution 39/46 (10 Dec. 1984).
188. Convention on Apartheid, supra.
189. Trial of Wagner and Six Others, Vol. III Law
Reports 24, 40-42, 94-95.
190. Trial of Martin Gottfried Weiss and 39 Others Vol.
XI Law Reports 5.
191. Vol. XI Law Reports 97-98; Vol. XV Law Reports
89; Vol. I Law Reports 43.
192. Vol. XI Law Reports 15.
193. Trial of Werner Rohde and Eight Others, Vol.
XV Law Reports 51.
194. ("Justice case"), Vol. VI Law Reports 88.
195. United States of America v. Wilhelm List, et al.,
1948.
196. Vol. XI Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg
Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10 1261, supra.
197. Vol. XI Law Reports 15.
198. Id.
199. Vol. VI Law Reports 84, 87.
200. Trial of the German Major War Criminals: Proceedings
of the International Military Tribunal sitting at Nuremberg Germany, Part
22 at 493 (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1950).
201. Trial of Franz Schonfeld and Nine Others, Vol.
XI Law Reports 69-70.
202. Id., 72.
203. See Trial of Karl Adam Golkel and 13 Others, British
Military Court Wuppertal, Germany, 15-21 May 1946, Judge-Advocate's Summation,
Vol. V Law Reports 53 ("it is quite clear that [concerned in the
killing does] not mean that a man actually had to be present at the site of
the shooting."), 45-47, 54-55 (defendants who only drove victims to woods
to be killed there were found to have been "concerned in the killing");
Trial of Max Wielen and 17 Others (British Military Court, Hamburg, Germany
1 Jul. - 3 Sep. 1947 (not necessary that a person be present to be "concerned
in a killing") Vol. XI Law Reports 43-44, 46.
204. Trial of Burn Tesch and Two Others, (Zyklon
B case) Vol. I Law Reports 93.
205. Id., 94.
206. Id., 101.
207. Vol. VII Law Reports 49 and fn 1.
208. J. Paust, My Lai and Vietnam, 57 Mil L. Rev.
99, 168 (1972).
209. Vol. XI Law Reports 13.
210. Id., 8, 12.
211. Id.
212. Id., 15.
213. Vol. II War Crimes Reports 418.
214. Id., 419.
215. Trial of Otto Sandrock and Three Others, Vol.
I Law Reports 35, 43 (1947).
216. Id., 43.
217. Case. no. 12-489, United States v. Kurt Goebell et
al, Report, Survey of the Trials of War Crimes Held at Dachau,Germany, 2-3
(15 Sept. 1948).
218. Gustav Becker, Wilhelm Weber and 18 Others, Vol.
VII Law Reports 67, 70.
219. Id., 71.
220. Id.
221. I.L.C. Draft Code Art. 2(3)(a) & (d) (emphasis added).
222. Id., 24 (emphasis in original).
223. I.L.C. Draft Code, 24 (emphasis in original).
224. See Bassiouni, 318, supra.
225. Henri Meyrowitz, 250, supra.
226. See Office of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees, The Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee
Status (1992); see also Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, The Refugee in International
Law 66-68 (Clarendon Press: Oxford, 2nd. ed. 1996).
227. Bassiouni, 317, supra.
228. Report of Counsellor Le Gunehec, 24, quoted in Cassese,
Violence and Law in the Modern Age, 112, supra
229. Id.
230. See id., 110.
231. See, e.g., the Barbie case, 143, supra.
232. I.L.C. Draft Code, 98, supra.
233. Id., 99.
234. Report of the Ad Hoc Committee, 17, supra.
235. Nürnberg Principles, para. 120, supra.
236. Nürnberg Judgment, 247-253, supra.
237. Attorney General of Israel v. Eichmann, 36 International
Law Reports 5, 239 (1968).
238. Justice case, Vol. VI Law Reports, 39, supra
(emphasis added).
239. Notes on the Justice case, id., 79.
240. Nürnberg Judgment, 237, supra.
241. See Vol. XV Law Reports 135.
242. Vol. V Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg
Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10, 984, supra.
243. Id., 997, 998.
244. Id., 999, 1001.
245. Id., 1010, 1015.
246. See also Telford Taylor, Final Report to the
Secretary of the Army on the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials Under Control Council
Law No. 10, 64-65 (1949).
247. Quinn v. Robinson, 783 F.2d 776, 799-801 (9th
Cir. 1986).
248. Eichmann case, 277-278, 287-289, supra.
249. Barbie case, supra.
250. I.L.C. 1991 Report, 236, supra.
251. Id., 268.
252. Id., 98.
253. Bassiouni, 282, supra.
254. See Nürnberg Judgment, 248-249, supra; the
Funk case, id., 305-307 (regarding the role of economic discrimination
as persecution); see also United States of America v. Ernst von Weizaecker
et al., Vol. XIV Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals
Under Control Council Law No. 10, 676-678, supra.
255. Nürnberg Judgment, 247-249, supra.
256. Id., 180-181.
257. Id., 339-40.
258. Id., 297-298.
259. Id., 300.
260. Id., 300.
261. Flick Trial, 27, supra.
262. Id., 26.
263. Notes on the Flick Trial, id., 50.
264. British Command Paper, Cmd. 6964, 85, quoted in Notes
on the Flick Trial, 51, supra.
265. See, e.g., the Nürnberg Tribunal's statements
in the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party case, Nürnberg Judgment, supra
at 259; the Seyss-Inquart case, id., 328, 329; the Funk case,
id., 305; the Frick case, id., 300; and the Goering
case, id., 282.
266. Eichmann case, supra.
267. Nazi and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law, 5710/1950.
268. Summary of Eichmann case, id. at 14.
269. Nürnberg Judgment, 302, supra.
270. Id., 304.
271. Justice case, supra, 1; see also id.,
51-52 (United States Military Tribunal applying Control Council Law No. 10 explained
that there were four types of laws the enforcement of which it would not normally
regard as being illegal).
272. Id., 52.
273. Notes on Judgment, 81, 83, supra.
274. Id., para. 56, referencing T/1403.
275. Id., paras. 56, 57.
276. Genocide Convention, supra.
277. I.L.C. Draft Code of Crimes against the Peace and Security
of Mankind, Ybk ILC, 1954, Vol. II, 150-152, U.N. Doc. A/2673.
278. See, e.g., the Genocide Convention, Art. II,
supra; the Nürnberg Charter, Art. 6(c), supra; the Tokyo Charter, Art.
5(c), supra; Control Council Law No. 10, Art. 2(c), supra; the
1996 I.L.C. Draft Code, Art. 18(e), supra; and the Nürnberg Principles,
Principle IV.c, supra.
279. Report of the Secretary-General, para. 47, supra.
280. J.H. Burger, H. Danelius, The United Nations Convention
Against Torture, 122.
281. I.L.C. Draft Code, 103, supra.
282. See Trial of Max Schmid, Vol. XIII Law Reports,
151-152 and notes thereto, supra.