crime against peace

This definition would play a part in defining aggression as a crime against peace.

Participating in a common plan or conspiracy to commit crimes against peace.

The sentence was given on counts of crime against peace and high treason.

He was found guilty of conspiracy to wage aggressive war and of crimes against peace.

Members of the Sub-Commission were divided on including ecocide as a crime against peace.

Crimes against peace by waging aggressive war against other nations and violating international treaties.

Higgins proposed to the United Nations that ecocide be made the fifth international crime against peace.

An amendment to the Rome Statute is needed to include ecocide as the fifth crime against peace.

"Class A" charges, alleging crimes against peace, were to be brought against Japan's top leaders who had planned and directed the war.

He described the American-led invasion of Iraq as a "crime against peace" and a violation of international law if undertaken.

He was afraid throughout most of his presidency that the commission would request that he be prosecuted for crimes against peace.

Crime against peace (international aggression)

Hess was sentenced to life imprisonment at Nuremberg for "crimes against peace," a charge invented for the occasion.

These are punishable crimes: Crimes against peace, like initiating a war of aggression in violation of international treaties.

Therefore, Article 6 of the Charter was drafted to include not only traditional war crimes and crimes against peace, but in paragraph 6.

The Legal Committee of the United Nations still struggles to formulate an acceptable code of crimes against peace.

Three categories of crimes were defined: war crimes, crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity.

On May 3 the prosecution opened its case, charging the defendants with conventional war crimes, crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity.

(a) Crimes against peace:

The indictment charges him with crimes against humanity, crimes against peace and war crimes, including genocide against the Kurds.

The answer was the novel charges of crimes against humanity and the crime against peace, which until then had been only vaguely envisioned as justiciable crimes.

"Mr Blair, this is a citizens' arrest for a crime against peace, namely your decision to launch an unprovoked war against Iraq.

In the war-responsibility trials, Rangell was convicted for 6 years of prison in February 1946 for alleged crimes against peace.