Tokens: “
...
international
law
in
1944
was
silent
on
the
subject
.
Previous
international
declarations
on
the
responsibility
for
,
and
obligation
to
prosecute
and
punish
,
war
crimes
did
not
refer
to
any
applicable
limitation
periods
...
[
N]either
the
Charters
of
the
IMT
Nuremberg
/
Tokyo
,
nor
the
1948
Convention
on
the
Prevention
and
Punishment
of
the
Crime
of
Genocide
,
the
Geneva
Conventions
of
1949
nor
the
Nuremberg
Principles
contained
any
provisions
concerning
the
prescriptibility
of
war
crimes
(
as
confirmed
by
the
Preamble
to
the
1968
Convention
)
.
”
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