Genocidal discrepancies

Abstract

Genocide may be the most recent crime to have been introduced into international criminal law, but its codification has been considered as the first human rights approach within the UN system2 and is often called ‘the crime of the crimes’ in the international order. The need to introduce international criminal responsibility for genocide appeared after the Second World War, when atrocities committed by the Nazi regime elicited a worldwide reaction. Unfortunately, Lemkin’s idea did not find its place among other international crimes in the Nuremberg trials, although it gave rise to the creation of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide...