Source: https://casebook.icrc.org/case-study/un-statute-icty
Timestamp: 2020-02-23 12:01:32
Document Index: 195769447

Matched Legal Cases: ['Art. 9', 'Arts 49', 'Art. 2', 'Arts 50', 'Art. 2', 'Art. 3', 'Art. 3', 'Arts 11', 'Art. 3', 'Art. 25', 'Arts 53', 'Arts 52', 'Art. 3', 'Arts 33', 'Art. 7', 'Arts 49', 'Arts 85', 'Art. 21', 'Arts 49', 'Arts 105', 'Art. 75', 'Arts 10', 'Arts 10', 'Arts 11', 'Art. 5', 'Art. 85', 'Art. 49', 'Art. 44']

UN, Statute of the ICTY | How does law protect in war? - Online casebook
[Source: UN Doc. S/RES/827 (May 25, 1993), available at : http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/RES/827(1993)]
[Source: UN Doc. S/25704 (May 3, 1993), available at : http://www.icty.org/x/file/Legal%20Library/Statute/statute_re808_1993_en.pdf ; footnotes omitted.]
[Source: Originally published as Annex to the Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to paragraph 2 of Security Council Resolution 808 (1993), (S/25704), approved by the Security Council by Resolution 827 (1993), May 25, 1993; available at : http://www.icty.org/x/file/Legal%20Library/Statute/statute_re808_1993_en.pdf]
[Source: Resolution 1534 (2004) Adopted by the Security Council at its 4935th meeting, on 26 March 2004; available at http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/RES/1534(2004)]
Does IHL provide for the possibility of prosecuting war criminals before an international tribunal? Is the prosecution of war criminals before an international tribunal and its concurrent jurisdiction as described in Art. 9 of the Statute compatible with the obligation of States under IHL to search for and prosecute war criminals? (GC I-IV, Arts 49/50/129/146 respectively)
Does Art. 2 cover all grave breaches of the Conventions? (GC I-IV, Arts 50/51/130/147 respectively)
Can you imagine why Art. 2 does not refer to grave breaches of Protocol I? Is there any possible justification for this omission, taking into account that the former Yugoslavia and all its successor States are parties to Protocol I and that the parties to the conflicts have undertaken to respect large parts of it, regardless of the qualification of the conflict? [See Former Yugoslavia, Special Agreements Between the Parties to the Conflicts, and ICTY, The Prosecutor v. Tadic [Part A., para. 143]] How could the ICTY nevertheless try grave breaches of Protocol I?
Which elements in Art. 3 go beyond the grave breaches mentioned in Protocol I? Are any grave breaches of Protocol I not covered by Art. 3? (P I, Arts 11(4) and 85)
Is an attack on an undefended building a grave breach of contemporary IHL? Is it always prohibited by IHL? Even if the building is uninhabited? Can an undefended building become a military objective? How would you formulate Art. 3(c) under contemporary IHL? (HR, Art. 25; GC IV, Arts 53 and 147; P I, Arts 52, 59 and 85(3)(d))
Is plunder of private property a grave breach of IHL? How would you formulate Art. 3(e) under contemporary IHL? (GC IV, Arts 33 and 147)
Can Art. 7(1) be inferred from the pertinent provisions of the Conventions and Protocol I? Does it correspond to a rule of customary IHL? Could it conceivably be a rule newly introduced by the ICTY Statute? (GC I-IV, Arts 49/50/129/146 respectively; P I, Arts 85(1) and 86(2))
Which rights granted to the accused under Art. 21 go beyond those granted by IHL to suspected war criminals? Which guarantees of IHL go further? (GC I-IV, Arts 49/50/129/146 respectively; GC III, Arts 105-107; P I, Art. 75)
Has the ICRC a right to visit an accused? Must it be notified of sentences as a de facto substitute for the Protecting Power? (GC I and II, Arts 10(3); GC III, Arts 10(3), 107 and 126; GC IV, Arts 11(3), 30, 74 and 143; P I, Art. 5(4))
Do persons held under the authority of the ICTY (pending trial or after being sentenced) lose their status under IHL as protected civilians or prisoners of war if they had such status before being arrested in the former Yugoslavia? Are any of the Statute’s provisions incompatible with such status and the treatment prescribed by IHL for holders of it? Is it lawful to deport a civilian arrested in the former Yugoslavia to The Hague to stand trial? (GC III, Art. 85; GC IV, Art. 49; P I, Art. 44(2))