Could government officials be held under Individual Criminal responsibility?
Could military and police commanders on the ground be held accountable under Command Responsibility? Could the subordinates who carried out the shootings be held criminally responsible? 1) WAS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY COMMITTED? In response to the above questions, what is certain is that, it was the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (1945-1946) that introduced a novel charge of crimes against humanity. For the first time in history, officials were held legally responsible and accountable to the civilized world for committing offenses against individual citizens and offences that have overshadowed our moral conscience as humans. Today in the Status of all hybrid and International Tribunals, Crimes against humanity is defined as follows: Any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack: (a) Murder; (b) Extermination; (c) Enslavement; (d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population; (e
