Robert BADINTER - From Nuremberg to the International Crime Tribunal

Pouvoirs n°92 - La responsabilité des gouvernants - janvier 2000 - p.155-164

Recent events have shown that dictators, past or present, charged with major international crimes, are not beyond the reach of criminal justice. The refusal to grant immunity to rulers in case of crimes against humanity as a whole seems to be a constant of conventional international crime law, as illustrated by the Treaty of Rome which created the International Crime Tribunal. It is not the constitutional mission of a Head of State or of government to violate fundamental individual rights. In order to avoid punishment, he cannot take refuge behind state sovereignty unless he totally misunderstands the real meaning of this notion. Résumé

Référence électonique : Robert BADINTER, "From Nuremberg to the International Crime Tribunal", Pouvoirs, revue française d’études constitutionnelles et politiques, n°92, 2000, p.155-164. Consulté le 01-06-2012. URL : http://www.revue-pouvoirs.fr/From-Nuremberg-to-the.html