The crime of aggression against Ukraine

The crime of aggression, successor to the crime against peace of the Statute of the Tribunal Nuremberg International, constitutes the most serious of international crimes. The committing the crime of aggression represents an ipso facto threat against peace international. The Nuremberg Tribunal quali...

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Autor: Hernández Campos, Augusto
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Perú
Recursos:Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Internacional
Repositorio:Revista Peruana de Derecho Internacional
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs2.72.167.226.102:article/310
Acesso em linha:https://revista.spdi.org.pe/RPDI/article/view/310
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Agresión contra Ucrania
Corte Penal Internacional
Crimen de agresión
Uso de la fuerza
Legítima defensa
Carta de la ONU
Aggression against Ukraine
International Criminal Court
Crime of Aggression
Use of force-self defense
UN Charter
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Resumo:The crime of aggression, successor to the crime against peace of the Statute of the Tribunal Nuremberg International, constitutes the most serious of international crimes. The committing the crime of aggression represents an ipso facto threat against peace international. The Nuremberg Tribunal qualified the war as aggression in its sentence: “Starting a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; is he supreme international crime that differs from other war crimes only in that contains in itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” The crime of aggression is thus a serious violation of the UN Charter and its fundamental principles. Taking the case of the Russian invasion against Ukraine we will examine how the crime of aggression in accordance with the most up-to-date and recent expression of the Law International Criminal Law which is the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.