In this research paper I go into depth speaking about the Nuremberg trial and about Tokyo trials. Both of these are prime examples of leaders who were charged with many crimes one of the crimes they were charged with was crime against humanity. These two cases are important to look at for the simple fact that it showed a perfect example of what could happen when individuals or even powerful nation violate international laws. For these two cases I looked for my sources in many different places like lexis nexis, international monitor, all of my resources and research came from Internet articles. What I found most interesting about these two different cases was how both of the cases were handled. The punishment they received was very interesting and distinguishing for me. When dealing with crimes against humanity I think United Nations should create stricter laws in order to prevent these crimes from happening. The International court should also give out harsh penalties as well for offenders of this type of inhumane act. International Criminal Court has created a treaty referred to as the roman statute. This was a treaty that was adopted by the …show more content…
Rome Statute refers to the four international core crimes, which include genocide, war crimes, crime of aggression, and crime against humanity. In my research paper I decided to focus on crime against humanity. Crime against humanity is an offence that has a serious attack or deprives an individual’s dignity or a grave humiliation of human beings. Crime against humanity can include “murder; extermination; enslavement; deportation or forcible transfer of population; imprisonment; torture; rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of