Source: https://casebook.icrc.org/print/20739
Timestamp: 2019-04-25 14:51:00
Document Index: 490382869

Matched Legal Cases: ['Art. 2', 'Arts 27', 'Arts 51', 'Arts 1', 'Art. 56', 'Art. 56', 'Art. 23', 'Arts 53', 'Arts 49', 'Art. 15']

Home > Croatia, Prosecutor v. Rajko Radulovic and Others
How can the Court apply the law of international armed conflict to the soldiers belonging to the army of the so-called “Republic of Serb Krajina”? Does it thereby recognize that “Republic” as a State? Does the Court consider those soldiers as fighting for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia? Taking into account the events described in Armed Conflicts in the Former Yugoslavia [1], Sections 2, 6, and 31, when could the conflict be qualified as international?
Is “ethnic cleansing” prohibited by IHL? In international armed conflicts? In non-international armed conflicts? Does the qualification of the conflict matter for determining whether any of the acts mentioned in the verdict are prohibited? Is the forced movement of civilians, independently of the means used, prohibited in international armed conflicts? Within and outside occupied territories? In non-international armed conflicts? (GC I-IV, Art. 2 [2]; GC IV, Arts 27 [3], 31 [4]-33 [5], 35 [6]-39 [7], 49 [8] and 53 [9]; P I, Arts 51 [10]-53 [11], 56 [12] and 57 [13]; P II, Arts 1 [14]-17 [15])
Was the destruction of the Peruca dam a violation of IHL? Even if the IHL of non-international armed conflict had been applicable? Was the destruction an “attack” and thus prohibited by Art. 56 of Protocol I? Could such an attack under the circumstances described in the verdict have possibly been justified under Art. 56 of Protocol I? Is the destruction of the dam a grave breach of IHL? (Hague Convention IV, Art. 23 (g) [16]; GC IV, [9] Arts 53 [9] and 147 [17]; P I, [18] Arts 49 [18], 52 [19] and 85(3)(a) [20]; PII, [21] Art. 15 [21])
Source URL: https://casebook.icrc.org/case-study/croatia-prosecutor-v-rajko-radulovic-and-others
[1] https://casebook.icrc.org/case-study/case-study-armed-conflicts-former-yugoslavia
[4] https://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=D87EA8F4896F4CE1C12563CD0051BC20
[5] https://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=72728B6DE56C7A68C12563CD0051BC40
[6] https://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=3ED6299567787851C12563CD0051BC67
[7] https://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=381B4142910B69A8C12563CD0051BCD3
[8] https://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=77068F12B8857C4DC12563CD0051BDB0
[9] https://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=74DEE157D151F7EAC12563CD0051BE1B
[10] https://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=4BEBD9920AE0AEAEC12563CD0051DC9E
[11] https://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=D76C3391F1A412C5C12563CD0051DCEB
[12] https://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=3376730ECD9DF7B1C12563CD0051DD37
[13] https://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=50FB5579FB098FAAC12563CD0051DD7C
[14] https://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=93F022B3010AA404C12563CD0051E738
[16] https://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=61CDD9E446504870C12563CD00516768
[17] https://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=F8D322BF3C0216B2C12563CD0051C654
[18] https://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=17E741D8E459DE2FC12563CD0051DC6C
[19] https://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=F08A9BC78AE360B3C12563CD0051DCD4
[20] https://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=73D05A98B6CEB566C12563CD0051E1A0
[21] https://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=27C1F262F0875DDFC12563CD0051E8C8