War Crimes Based on International Documentations, Especially From the International Criminal Court Statute

The term “war crimes” was first entered in to the legal language and literature by Larnaude and La Pradelle after the World War I. Opposite of the “crimes against humanity” and “genocide”, war crime is related to “Humanitarian Law”. As you can see from the title, war crimes are related to a state of war or conflict and war or conflicts, typically happens between governments.On the other hand, non-international wars exist too which are the internal armed conflicts. Before the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the crimes of internal wars or conflicts were not recognized by the international treaties or conventions.Even though some examples of the war crimes were known in the common international law; but for the first time and in details, the war crimes were studied at the ICC’s statute as an international documentation fact. In addition to the common international law, the statute of the ICC, different regulations of The Hague conventions, the four treaties of the Geneva conventions and some other international documents including statutes and sentences issued by the international courts are all inspiring the section (8) as well.To sum up we can say that war crime is a violation of the humanitarian law and it is violating the rights of the war. The current research specifies the basis of the war crimes and it studies the ambiguities about the documentations on crimes. It has included the study of war crimes from international documentations, especially from the statute of the ICC and the crime specific elemental document.