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We
believe
that
the
answer
given
by
the
Court
to
this
particular
claim
is
not
the
correct
one
.
The
mere
silence
of
international
law
does
not
suffice
to
prove
that
the
consent
and
the
intentions
of
the
international
community
in
1944
were
clear
as
far
as
the
imprescriptibility
of
war
crimes
was
concerned
,
particularly
if
one
takes
into
account
that
before
Nuremberg
and
Tokyo
,
the
state
of
international
criminal
law
concerning
individual
responsibility
for
war
crimes
had
not
yet
attained
a
degree
of
sophistication
and
completeness
permitting
the
conclusion
that
the
technical
and
procedural
issues
as
to
the
application
of
that
law
had
been
unequivocally
determined
.
Basically
,
one
could
say
that
up
to
1944
general
international
law
–
as
a
combination
of
existing
general
international
agreements
and
State
practice
–
had
resolved
the
issue
of
individual
responsibility
(
and
not
only
State
responsibility
)
,
and
that
only
the
post
-
war
period
fine
-
tuned
procedural
issues
,
such
as
the
question
of
the
statute
of
limitations
for
war
crimes
.
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