ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the extent to which each international criminal tribunal has dealt with children who are victims of atrocity crimes in general, such as killing, deprivation of liberty and torture, among others. These crimes are labelled in this study as ‘generic’ international crimes, to distinguish them from the child-specific crimes reviewed in Chapter 3. It analyses selected portions of the jurisprudence of the International Military Tribunals of Nuremberg and Tokyo; the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; the Special Court for Sierra Leone; and the International Criminal Court. It shows that international criminal courts have given only limited and inconsistent attention to the atrocity crimes affecting children.
