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Command responsibility

In the practice of international law, command responsibility (also superior responsibility) is the legal doctrine of hierarchical accountability for war crimes, whereby a commanding officer (military) and a superior officer (civil) are legally responsible for the war crimes and the crimes against humanity committed by their subordinates; thus, a…

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related to References · 102
Command responsibility → Allison Marston Danner, American Journal, AND BEYOND, Anne, Archived, Armed Conflict, Army Forces, Asia-Pacific War, Associations, Bantekas, BY JOHN, CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEWYAMASHITA, Century, COMMAND RESPONSIBILITY IN CONTEMPORARY, COMMAND RESPONSIBILITY THEN AND, Command ResponsibilitySUPERIOR OR COMMAND, Commanding General, Defense, Development, DOWN
related to Definitions · 29
Command responsibility → Alekowski, Capacity, Evidence, Executive, High Command Trial, Hostages Trial, ICTY, In, In De, International, Joint Chiefs, Military, Military Tribunal, Ministries Trial, Nikolic, Nuremberg, Policy, POW, Power, Prisoner-of-war
related to 20th century · 25
Command responsibility → Adaptation, Article, Belligerents, Chapter, Convention IV, Customs, Geneva Convention, Hague, Hague Convention, Hostile State, Land, Laws, Maritime War, Military Authority, October, On Belligerents, Principles, Section, Section III, Territory
related to 19th-century United States · 18
Command responsibility → American Civil War, April, Armies, Article, Articles, As, Confederacy, Confederate POWs, During, Field, General Orders No, Government, Instructions, Lieber Code, Section III, Union Army, United States, War
related to 15th-century Europe · 14
Command responsibility → Although, Bold, Breisach, Burgundian, Burgundy, Charles, Duke, Hagenbach, Hagenbach's, Holy Roman Empire, In, Peter, The, The Knight Hagenbach
related to Yamashita standard · 14
Command responsibility → Allied, Application, As, Far East, Filipino, Gen, General Tomoyuki Yamashita, In, Japanese Fourteenth Area Army, Philippine Islands, Second World War, Supreme Court, The International Military Tribunal, Yamashita
related to Codification · 8
Command responsibility → Additional Protocol, Additional Protocol No, AP, Article, Geneva Conventions, In, The Additional Protocol, Therefore
related to Militias and irregular formations · 4
Command responsibility → Geneva Conventions, Hague, Political, Since
related to International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia · 3
Command responsibility → Delalić, The ICTY, The Prosecutor

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