The Charter and its definition of crimes against peace was also the basis of the Finnish parliament on 11 September 1945, that enabled the war-responsibility trials in Finland.
32.
Hess was found guilty on two counts : crimes against peace ( planning and preparing a war of aggression ), and conspiracy with other German leaders to commit crimes.
33.
The interpretation of Article 102 is reserved to the Security Council, so it is possible that a " crime against peace " might be found by the Security Council, regardless.
34.
Shortly thereafter, the War Crimes Section of the British Foreign Office issued a statement that the British government would not wish to prosecute Finnish political leadership for crimes against peace.
35.
It is distinct from " jus ad bellum " which regulates the conduct of engaging in war or armed conflict and includes crimes against peace and of war of aggression.
36.
-- Yugoslavia began presenting its case to the World Court in The Hague that NATO's bombing campaign is " a crime against peace and also the crime of genocide ."
37.
But Karim Khan, a former legal adviser to the prosecutor, says the tribunal does not have jurisdiction over so-called crimes against peace _ that is, deciding who started a war.
38.
Unlike the Nuremberg Trials, the charge of crimes against peace was a prerequisite to prosecution only those individuals whose crimes included crimes against peace could be prosecuted by the Tribunal.
39.
Unlike the Nuremberg Trials, the charge of crimes against peace was a prerequisite to prosecution only those individuals whose crimes included crimes against peace could be prosecuted by the Tribunal.
40.
Several subsequent international treaties incorporate this principle, but some have dropped the restriction " in connection with any crime against peace or any war crime " that is in Nuremberg Principles.
