They look like a drawer. They are almost two natural laws, like the cruelty of murder since Cain and Abel. But no. Genocide crimes and crimes against humanity they are a new ‘structure’ from WWII. Up to Nuremberg trials he had no typing. no one tied genocide of the armenian people Neither the bombing of the civilian population at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in 1915 (gernika) as crimes.
International justice began in the 1930s when the Nazis persecuted, cornered, deported, and ultimately to run millions european citizens from Jewish faith.
lawyers that they created, baptized and cultivated both crimes and persuaded the judicial authorities of the allied nations (United States, Great Britain and also France) the need to employ them in Nuremberg was the Jews. It’s even a logical thing. But at the same time, both lawyers, Hersch Lauterpacht and Raphael Lemkin today in Ukraine and then in Austria-Hungary, today, they grew up in this city and studied law, Lviv and then Lemberg, lviv, in spanish.
The crimes that devastated their families in Lviv return 80 years later in the hands of the Russian Army. unfortunately home.
armenian background
“Who remembers the extermination of the Armenians?” she cried. Adolf Hitler when he ordered his army to devastate Poland. And this statement spurred the research that Lemkin collected in his book ‘The Power of the Axis in Occupied Europe’ published in 1944. There he defined crime and the dictionary term.
if he genocide stopped as group Protection, or that an individual belongs to a group, crimes against humanity to protect individual against the violence of states in war. All genocides are crimes against humanity, but not the other way around.
It was Lauterpacht who developed the concept of crime against humanity as a result of the Armenian case. was one of the writers last speech Lemkin, the British prosecutor in Nuremberg, the English one. One in the seat Columbia University, in America. the other in Cambridge (United Kingdom). Both narrowly escaped fear. Although it was not yet typed at that time.