ABSTRACT
Individual responsibility is one of the cornerstones of international criminal law. Genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity, are all crimes for which an individual can be prosecuted. Legally, the concepts of war crimes and crimes against humanity had been established by the time the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal took up its work prosecuting Nazi war criminals in 1945 (Neier, 1998). The crime of genocide was first adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 9, 1948, in its Resolution 260 (III) (U.N.T.S., 1951). Articles II and III of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide present a definition for genocide and which acts are punishable under this definition.
