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    Uluslararası Hukukda ve Türk Hukukunda savaş suçları
    (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2003) Aslan, Muzaffer Yasin; Hafızoğulları, Zeki; Hukuk
    All through human history, the disasters of the First, and the Second World Wars played a significant role on fostering war crimes. For this reason, the concept of war crimes is vital for the rule of law, human rights, and global peace. Following the Second World War, despite the great progress of the law of war, and the humanitarian law, the inhuman occasions in Cambodia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Kosova, Eastern Timor, and more recently in Palestinia, Azerbaijan, and Iraq revealed that the international community is still indifferent, and unaware of the war crimes. The principal features of war crimes are stated as those accepted crimes in international law, and the sanctions of the violations of that law. After that, "crimes of aggression (crimes against peace)", "crimes against humanity", "genocide", and "conventional war crimes" are explained. War crimes are analyzed from the aspect of human rights, the main codifications in the field, penal, and the international law. After explaining the evolution of war crimes, the efforts in humanitarian law is described in the first chapter. In the second chapter, the concept of war crimes, and legal perspectives of the concept is defined. By explaining the concept of war crimes, four main category of the crimes are stated, and the evolution of those crimes are examined. The third chapter has analyzed the judical procedure of war crimes, and this chapter is divided into two main parts as the national, and the international jurisdiction. The fourth chapter is about the domestic war crimes, and its jurisdiction. It also analyzes the responsibility of the states on prevention of war crimes, and the importance of the training of the law of war. As a result, it is evident that the codifications have played a significant role in widespread acceptance of war crimes since the Second World War.