According to the International Criminal Court, what is the legal definition of Crimes Against Humanity?
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Waging war without justification.\nHolding prisoners without giving them due consideration, legal representation, or any rights.\n\n"Crimes against humanity: murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against civilian populations, before or during the war; or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated."
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He should have to face the world court in the Hague for his crimes against humanity. He attack a sovereign nation for no reason at all and his troupes have engaged in torture and other atrocity's to prisoners of war.
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Mala In SE. "Under common law, a crime was generally classified as treason, felony or misdemeanour, but many offences could not be defined exactly and they were referred to as Mala In Se." For more information please refer to MSN Encarta -eciclopedia
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United States of America (only its leaders, why punish people for what leaders do???) is the country that is most suited to be thrown in Jail. Mind it , not its people but their leaders who wage wars, who bring sanctions on poor countries etc which is but against Humanity.
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Assuming he is found guilty then he would be guilty of 'domestic' crimes such as murder.\n\nInternational law has crimes such as "genocide" which is where the "international" part comes from although this gives issues with how you break a law that is not specific in your country.\n\nHe has also aggressed across borders which makes that an international crime.
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The established principles of Natural Justice are: 1) An accused can not be punished unheard. 2) A person can not be judge of his own action. 3) An accused can not be punished more than once for the same offence. 4) A person can not be compelled to be a witness against himself. All these principles have been very scrupulously followed in case of Saddam Hussein under full gaze of the entire world. The extra-liberal western democracies were keeping a vigil on the methods adopted during trial of the accused. He has been awarded the punishment as he has been accused of an offence which is rarest of the rare kind and proved beyond all reasonable doubts. Hence, the punishment is fully justified. His crime is a crime against mankind, even Allah will be pleased at his hanging.
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If I can say this loosely, retaliation (or vengeance) when standardized justifies those who carry it out. They are not guilty in any way. So after this, anyone who retaliates is unlawful. Which legalizes their condemnation.\nThere must be some way for society to see the civilized end to a conflict. If not-there can be war. I know of no war that was not the result of someone not yielding to some standard of conflict resolution that would be fair to all.
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Those liable to humanity must answer for what they did was wrong.  The International Court of Justice must take cognizance of their wrongdoings.
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Nope. Technically, a criminal is someone who does something wrong legally. He's taking a legal action, government has the right to war. It's not illegal.
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There isn't really any such thing as "human rights laws" per se. There is the UN Declaration of Human Rights, which many countries have signed, but is non-binding. That's as close as you could really get.
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It means to do a wrongful act, unlawful, being evil or wicked.
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Human rights refers to the concept of human beings as having universal rights, or status, regardless of legal jurisdiction or other localizing factors, such as ethnicity and nationality.
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An "illegal alien" has committed a crime by entering a country illegally. I am law-abiding and here legally.\n\nOther than that, nothing.
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Yes, it's called the Geneva Convention. Unfortunately, the US refuses to participate in the International Criminal Court (ICC). The United States under Bill Clinton signed the treaty, but never submitted it for ratification. When George W. Bush took office shortly afterwards, he nullified the signature (wonder why?). As for therandman's response about 80000 Kurds Saddam gassed in the 80's, many think it was Iran and not Saddam (see link 1 below). When this occurred, Iraq was at war with Iran and Saddam was being supported by the US government (see link 2 below).
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The United Nations' Universal declaration of Human rights contains that passage.\nhttp://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
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It was a crime against humanity.  It cannot be justified & it will never be forgotten.  Shame on governments who destroy the lives of powerless civilians.
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I define justice as when someone is caught and convicted of the crimes in which they commited to society.