The Crime of Genocide before the international criminal institutions

The Crime of Genocide before the International Criminal Institutions Abstract The crime of genocide constitutes one of the fundamental institutes of international criminal law that is directed against human rights violations perpetrated on a scale that affects the whole international community. It differs from other crimes under international law in its emphasis laid on the protection of selected groups of persons, the specific intent aimed at the destruction of those protected groups, as well as other aspects contained in its definition. As a response to the Holocaust the crime of genocide was defined for the first time by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in 1948. It was this very definition that was adopted to the statutes of international criminal institutions and is currently recognised as a peremptory rule. This thesis is dedicated to the crime of genocide in its form determined by the case law of UN ad hoc international criminal tribunals along with other international judicial authorities. The corpus of decisions taken by these authorities represents the preeminent source of matter concerned that provides the means to present a conceivably thorough perspective of the institute in question within the given scope. Furthermore, the author employs findings of the..