Excusing Perpetrators of International Crimes
by
Annemieke van Verseveld
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
When a perpetrator of an international crime argues in his defence that he did not realise that he had violated the law, is this a reason not to punish him? International crimes constitute serious offences and it could be argued that he who commits such an offence must know his act is punishable....