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Primary Materials

· The War Crimes Act of 1996 - 18 U.S.C. § 2441, at Cornell's Legal Information Institute

· Hague conventions of 1899, revised in 1907

· Charter of the Nuremberg Trial 1950, No. 82

· Protocol I of 1977 Addition to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 (Part IV Articles 48, 51, 55, 56 & 57).

· Rules of Procedure and Evidence, Rwanda - International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Rules of Procedure and Evidence, U.N. Doc. ITR/3/REV.1 (1995), entered into force 29 June 1995, from the U. of Minnesota

· International Criminal Court - United Nations' site containing statute of ICC, background information, speeches and statements.

· Post-Conference Materials -- containing the first reading of the rules of procedure and evidence, and of the elements of crimes.

· International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Rules of Procedure and Evidence - from the U. of Minnesota

· Rwanda: Accountability for War Crimes and Genocide - U.S. Institute of Peace (January 1995)

· Statute of the International Court of Justice

· Geneva Conventions and more - The International Committee of the Red Cross includes both the Geneva Conventions and other important documents on international Humanitarian Law

· The Hague Conventions

· The Genocide Convention

· The Laws of War - The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School contains a wealth of digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.

· Web Genocide Documentation Centre - maintained by Dr S. D. Stein, U. of West of England. Many primary resources are collected at this site.

The International Tribunals for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law in the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Rwanda (ICTR)

· Tribunal Supplement (Publications)

· Rwanda: the Search for Security and Human Rights Abuses http://www.hrw.org/reports98/publctns.htm

· International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia - United Nations' site containing legal documents, news and tribunal cases.

· International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda - United Nations' site containing summary and full text of judgment, transcripts of hearings, case summaries and about ICTR.

· Basic Tribunal Documents for the ICTY - University of Minnesota Human Rights Library

· Coalition for International Justice - An international, non-profit organization working to support the Yugoslavia and Rwanda war crimes tribunals

· U.N. Resolution 827 establishing the ICTY

· War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity, Including Genocide - U. Minnesota

· War Crimes Tribunal Watch - Institute for Global Communications

· War Criminal Watch

Briefs and Materials from War Crimes Cases

· German judgments on Nazi Capital Crimes, 1945-1999 - University of Amersterdam Press

· The Kayishema & Ruzindana Judgment of May 21, 1999: [in three parts; pdf format]

· Introduction; Historical Context; Evidentiary Matters; The Law - pages 1 - 88

· Factual Findings; Legal Findings; Cumulative Charges; The Verdict - pages 89 - 236

· Dissenting Opinion and Sentencing Order

· Lockerbie Trial Briefing- Maintianed by the University of Glasgow School of Law

· The Doctors trial (Nuremberg Proceedings) - with portions of trial transcript

· Nuremberg War Crimes Primary Documents - Yale U. Avalon Project

· Jane Doe I v. Radovan Karadzic - U.S. Federal Court, Second Circuit

· The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights - amicus curiae brief in support of the United States' second request for the surrender to the Rwanda Tribunal of Elizaphan Ntakirutimana

· Tribunal Indictments and other court documents - from Court TV

· International Criminal Court Briefing Series - from Lawyers Committee for Human Rights

· International War Crimes Tribunal United States War Crimes Against Iraq

Kosovo

· Kosovo, 1999-2000: The Intractable Peace - The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Working Group, European University Institute.

· Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo: An Accounting - U.S. State Dept. Report [Dec. 1999]

· Erasing History: Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo - U.S. State Dept Report [May 1999]

· Peace Plan Principles to move towards a resolution of the Kosovo crisis, accepted by Yugoslavia (3-6-99) [PDF document - Adobe Reader is required]

· Text of Kosovo Peace Plan - From Washington Post - 3 June 1999

· The Kosovo Report - Prepared by the Independent International Commision on Kosovo

· International Court of Justice - Legality of Use of Force Decisions - Involving Nations of Nato and Yugoslavia.

· United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) ASSESSMENT REPORT ON SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN KOSOVO

· Erasing History: Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo - Report released by the U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, May 1999

· Understanding the Rambouillet Accords - U.S. State Department Fact Sheet

· ASIL Briefing Paper on Kosovo - The Kosovo Situation and Nato Military Action

· Law Guide to the Kosovo Conflict - JURIST: The Legal Education Network

· Milosevic Trial - The University of Pittsburgh-based education portal that hosts links to live video and translated audio coverage of the trial, recent commentary by legal scholars, and the latest news.

· Meeting on Kosovo (Rambouillet - February 1999)

· The Balkans; International Crisis Group reports - Kosovo: recent articles

· UNICEF - humanitarian relief efforts in Kosovo and neighboring nations

· Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo - U.S. State Dept. Report Dec. 1999

Genocide

· Genocide: Resources for Teaching and Research

· Prosecuting Genocide - LCHR report on the ICTR

· Web Genocide Documentation Centre - maintained by Dr S. D. Stein, U. of West of England. Many primary resources are collected at this site.

Related Internet Sites

· Crimes of War - The Crimes of War Project is a unique collaboration of journalists, lawyers and scholars that seeks to raise awareness of the laws of war among the media, governments, the human rights and humanitarian aid communities, and the general public

· Nazi Gold links - see also human rights

· The American Society of International Law - a forum for exchange of views and information among government officials, corporate and business leaders, scholars, practicing lawyers, students and others interested in international law and affairs.

· War Crimes Bibliography: Materials available at the ASIL Collection.

· The Institute for War & Peace Reporting - publishes the Balkan Crisis Reports, and the Hague Tribunal Update

· International Justice Watch Discussion List - Human Rights Center SUNY Buffalo

· Background Information on Bosnia from PBS

Articles Online

· Foreign Policy - On line magazine of global politics, economics, and ideas

· The Balkan Institute. War Crimes and Individual Responsibility: A Prima Facie Case for the Indictment of Slobodan Milosevic

· The Law of War Crimes: National and International Approaches, Timothy L H McCormack and Gerry J Simpson Editors, Kluwer Law International (1997) - Book Review [Book is in the NESL collection]

Research Aids

· War Crimes: Resources and Research Steps

· General International Law Research Guides

· Diana Project: Yale Law School - For Human Rights Documents, try this search engine at Yale finds documents from the any of the Diana sites (Yale, Cincinnati, Minnesota, Toronto)

· Crimes Against Humanity During the Gulf War : A Hyperlinked Pathfinder Research Tool (22 June 1998)
By Barry Goodman

See also:

· Our links to Criminal Justice Sites - for links to criminal codes of various countries

· http://www.nesl.edu/research/intcrim.cfm (International Criminal Justice links)

· http://www.nesl.edu/research/hrights.cfm (Human Rights links)

· Our Links to current awareness news links (note that Court TV posts documents from war crimes trials that never make it on Lexis).

Megasites with excellent war crimes links:

· http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Law/intl.html#warcrimes - University of Chicago

· http://www.hg.org/ - Hieros Gamos, subject areas for both Human Rights and "War and Peace"

http://www.washlaw.edu/forint/alpha/w/warcrimes.htm - Washburn U. School of Law