Accountability for International Humanitarian Law Violations: The Case of Rwanda and East Timor

• Main Author: Othman, Mohamed C. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Subjects: Law.; Criminal law.; International humanitarian law.; International criminal law.; Criminal Law.; International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict.; International Criminal Law.

The main objective of this book is to make available to an informed audience a le­ gal and policy oriented study on accountability for serious human rights and inter­ national humanitarian law violations. It is an attempt to share the lessons learnt in accountability for atrocity crimes as conducted...

Table of Contents:

• Rwanda and East Timor: Pattern of Violence
• Accountability Arrangements: Rwanda
• Accountability Arrangements: East Timor
• Profiling Perpetrators
• Conspiracy to commit genocide
• Superior Responsibility
• Guilty Pleas
• Conclusion.