Implementing international humatarian law

Häftad bok. Routledge. 2004. 314 sidor.

Nyskick. Engelsk text ///Förlagets beskrivning: Throughout the twentieth century the international community has witnessed many human rights violations which have also constituted violations of international humanitarian law. Two of the worst violations of human rights and of international
humanitarian law occurred in the territories of the former
Yugoslavia and in Rwanda in the last decade of the twentieth
century. The large scale of killings, rape and other forms of
sexual violence, 'ethnic cleansing', genocide and other types
of crimes committed in these two regions of the world impelled
the international community to bring those responsible for such
crimes to justice. Thus, the UN Security Council established
the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICT/) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), acting under Chapter VII of the UN Charter in 1993 and in 1994 respectively.
The establishment of the ICTY and the ICTR was innovative
in character because it was established by the Security
Council on behalf of the entire international community. This
development also paved the way for the establishment of the
International Criminal Court (ICC) in 1998. Implementing International Humanitarian Law examines the international humanitarian law rules and their application by the ad hoc tribunals with regard to the substantive laws of the
ICTY and the ICTR. The practice of the ICTY and the ICTR and
their contribution to international humanitarian law, together
with their possible impact on the ICC, is examined in light of
the decisions rendered by the ad hoc tribunals and of the latest
international humanitarian law instruments such as the 1996
ILC Draft Code of Crimes Against the Peace and Security of
Mankind and the ICC Statute.
Dr Yusuf Aksar is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon-Turkey. After graduating from Ankara University Law Faculty, he practised as a public prosecutor and judge candidate for the Ministry of Justice, specialising in criminal law. He was awarded with an LL M by both Ankara and Sheffield Universities in 1996 and 1997 respectively and received his Ph. D. from Bristol University in 2000. He has written articles on many aspects of public international and international humanitarian law.