Genocide, War Crime and Crimes Against Humanity
- Soumya Mani
- June 25, 2020
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Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity are the most heinous and gruesome crimes that can be inflicted upon the people. These are the severe inhumane offences which are done to the people resulting in the most brutal type of gross and grave violation of human rights laws. These crimes are dealt under the International humanitarian laws.
Genocide is the mass killing of people based on their national, ethnical, racial and religious group. It is the calculated and orderly extermination of a national, racial or cultural group. It is the mass annihilation of a whole group of people, an attempt to wipe them out of existence.
War Crimes are the serious violations of international humanitarian laws resulting in extreme wrong and injustice done to the people. A list of offences has been included under “War Crimes”. These are considered to be severe offenses against humanity.
Crimes against humanity are acts that are deliberately committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian or an identifiable part of a civilian population. Just like War Crimes, a list of offences have been given under the term Crimes against humanity, however, unlike war crimes, crimes against humanity can be committed during peace or war.
This paper tries to expatiate on the entire notion about these crimes in detail. The paper meticulously explores every aspect related to the topic. There has been various definitions given by various authorities yet people are unaware to such crimes happening in society. The paper tries to analyze and these definitions and understand them with the help of various international cases. Thus, through this paper, an endeavor has been made to allow the readers to understand the whole idea of these Atrocity crimes.
