War Crimes
War Crimes: Freedom or Justice
“No crime without law”, is a statement that was agreed upon for every power- wielding country across the globe1. Any discretion would normally result in the United Nations International Court of Justice to bring down the iron fist and resolve the situation in any way that they feel fit. Recently, there has been another method to solve disagreements throughout the world, not with petty crimes, but war crimes. War crimes are offenses that undermine the previously amended laws and were believed to be served and handled by the offending country2. Due to the polemical ideas of participating countries, war crimes have been debated with whether or not these crimes should be resolved by an international court. While 120 countries have signed and gave the ICC- International Criminal Court- control over war crimes within their countries with the belief that the crimes will not go unpunished, several other nations have repeatedly denied the ICC access to govern their crimes due to the risk of losing sovereignty.
The ties between countries are continually changing therefore laws are altered to better fit the needs of the global state. Before the ICC there was a system of laws that coexisted in order to govern the war crimes that were committed in the early 1900s. The Geneva Conventions focused on humanities, the crimes that surrounded them and challenged the authority of the government1. These conventions have bettered the world in their understandings of the way in what is acceptable. This also served as a basis of the limits of what military leaders allowed of their troops.
The Geneva Conventions were the start of the revolution of war crime retribution. Other organizations that have been implemented but are not specified to trying individuals and rectifying war crimes and war crime tribunals include: the United Nations International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Tribunes. The U.N. International Court of Justice was
“No crime without law”, is a statement that was agreed upon for every power- wielding country across the globe1. Any discretion would normally result in the United Nations International Court of Justice to bring down the iron fist and resolve the situation in any way that they feel fit. Recently, there has been another method to solve disagreements throughout the world, not with petty crimes, but war crimes. War crimes are offenses that undermine the previously amended laws and were believed to be served and handled by the offending country2. Due to the polemical ideas of participating countries, war crimes have been debated with whether or not these crimes should be resolved by an international court. While 120 countries have signed and gave the ICC- International Criminal Court- control over war crimes within their countries with the belief that the crimes will not go unpunished, several other nations have repeatedly denied the ICC access to govern their crimes due to the risk of losing sovereignty.
The ties between countries are continually changing therefore laws are altered to better fit the needs of the global state. Before the ICC there was a system of laws that coexisted in order to govern the war crimes that were committed in the early 1900s. The Geneva Conventions focused on humanities, the crimes that surrounded them and challenged the authority of the government1. These conventions have bettered the world in their understandings of the way in what is acceptable. This also served as a basis of the limits of what military leaders allowed of their troops.
The Geneva Conventions were the start of the revolution of war crime retribution. Other organizations that have been implemented but are not specified to trying individuals and rectifying war crimes and war crime tribunals include: the United Nations International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Tribunes. The U.N. International Court of Justice was
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