ОДГОВОРНОСТ ЗА МЕЂУНАРОДНЕ ЗЛОЧИНЕ У СВЕТЛУ ПРАКСЕ ХАШКОГ ТРИБУНАЛА
RESPONSIBILITY FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIMES IN THE LIGHT OF THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL JURISPRUDENCE

Summary/Abstract: With the entry into force of the Statute of the Hague Tribunale on May 1993, a new branch of criminal law finally live – international criminal law. International criminal law as a system of legal rules contained in the documents of international community and in the documents of national (internal) criminal law provides for criminal liability and punishment for a great number of international crimes. These crimes are acts of breaking war laws and rules of warfare (international humanitarian law) and also they are the acts of harming or imperiling the peace among nations and the security of mankind. These are next crimes: genocide, crime against humanity, war crimes and crime of aggression. For these acts there are provided most severe penalties and measures of punishment known in the criminal law today. For perpetrators of these crimes in certain cases the primary jurisdiction is the one of international criminal court (supra- national) authorities, such as f.е. Nuremberg or Tokyo military Tribunal, Hague Tribunal, the Criminal court of Rome, etc. This paper analyzes the international crimes stated in the Hague Statute of the International criminal court, in order to be able to fully consider the characteristics of these crimes which are otherwise provided in the provisions of the new criminal legislation of Republic of Serbia adopted in 2005.

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