International Law and War Crimes Prosecution

International Law
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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Can international law change the world” critically discuss this statement in relation to
Prosecution of war crimes............................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFRENCES ..................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
International laws are those laws which are used over making universal declaration making
distend over doing war reduced in more effective way. Also they promoted international
platforms for reducing factors giving rise to war. War crime means those conflicts which takes
place due to the any kind of misunderstanding accrued within different countries leading towards
distressed caused in functioning of country. War crimes are based over certain indecent actions
that takes place over various kinds of attributes leading towards in human activities. These
crimes lead towards causing dis balance within the peace at global and domestic level. Through
war crimes more and more warfare perspectives are achieved over prosecuting people involved
within war. This is an important concept to be studied as it helps in attaining knowledge about
conditions faced by prosecutors during the time of war. In the essay deep discussion is done
about war prosecutions and war crimes by covering important aspects in relation to it. It is one
of the most important party used for studying history of law related to punishment.
MAIN BODY
Can international law change the world” critically discuss this statement in relation to
Prosecution of war crimes
War crimes means those violations that has been taking place due to violation of
international humanitarian law that makes individuals criminal responsibility mentioned within
international law. Further, these crimes are violation of laws related to war giving rise over
individual criminals responsible over actions through combating about intentional killing
civilians or killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages and destroying civilian property,
deception over various kinds of crime like perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, the
conscription of children in the military, committing genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of
no quarter despite surrender, and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military
necessity (Schindler, 2019). The formal concept of war crime has been identified over emerging
codification and customary international law which is applicable over warfare between sovereign
states are Lieber Code (1863) of the Union Army in the American Civil War and the Hague
Conventions of 1899 and 1907 within international war. As the Second World War ended the
war-crime trials over the leaders of various countries lead upon forming Nuremberg principles of
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