The Un International Criminal Tribunals: The Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone

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Cambridge University Press, 2006 M07 20 - 767 pages
This book is a guide to the law that applies in the three international criminal tribunals, for the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone, set up by the UN during the period 1993 to 2002 to deal with atrocities and human rights abuses committed during conflict in those countries. Building on the work of an earlier generation of war crimes courts, these tribunals have developed a sophisticated body of law concerning the elements of the three international crimes (genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes), and forms of participation in such crimes, as well as other general principle.

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Professor of human rights law, National University of Ireland, Galway, and Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights.

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