Definition of Lesa humanity
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Nov. 2011
Against humanity is a characterization that has been given to some types of crimes considered for their certainly serious implications since they have as their primary purpose eliminate people, torture them, make them suffer through some bloody modality, and that is carried out in a systematic way in order to affect a large mass of individuals belonging to to one population.
Types of extremely serious crimes against physical integrity, which are directed from power to a sector of the population that is considered despicable for some situation
In this vile and murderous action there is a tendency on the part of the political authorities, which are the ones who normally carry out these crimes, to believe that there is a part of the population, to which the attack and the massacre is directed, that it is despicable and that they have rights to commit those hits.
This type of rhyme directly attacks human integrity and nature.
Legal recognition
According to Rome Statute
, which is the instrument I constitute of the International Criminal Court or Tribunal, adopted in the city of Rome on July 17, 1998, crimes against humanity are those behaviors, actions, typified as: murder, deportation, extermination, torture, rape, forced prostitution, sterilization forced, persecution with political, religious, racial, ethnic, ideological reasons, kidnapping, forced disappearance or any other act lacking in humanity and causing severe damage both psychically and physically and that are also committed as part of a comprehensive or systematic attack against a community, generally by the state that has the all the resources from authority and forces in their favor.Nazism and dictatorships, their executors
The persecution and extermination that the Nazism carried out against the Jewish population, is an example of such crimes.
Also, this type of despicable and reprehensible crimes have been committed throughout history, even up to good times. recent and current by dictatorial, totalitarian governments, against those citizens or inhabitants who did not coincide with its ideology or that they professed to be against their government.
One of the most emblematic cases is that of the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983), during which the military that took power exercised a state terrorism that ended with the persecution, illegal detention, repression, torture and the disappearance of people who professed against its politics of government.
People were illegally detained at their homes, that is, without court orders, and were taken to clandestine detention centers where they were subjected to harassment and torture.
When the dictatorship ended and the democracy returned to Argentina, such acts were decreed as crimes against humanity and his culprits were tried and sentenced to prison.
Meanwhile, due to its aberrational nature, the crime against humanity turns out to be an injury and a grievance against humanity as a whole and not prescribes, that is, it does not occur as with other minor crimes that after a while can no longer be tried, but instead the crime of lese humanity is imprescriptible for all legislations.
Imprescriptible
They are judicially imprescriptibleIn other words, they can be persecuted and punished at any time that the opportunity to do so is given.
Notably leso, refers to aggrieved, offended or hurt
This type of crime can be perpetrated by public officials or by members of a political organization against a population civil and not only involves military attacks in times of war but can also occur in times of peace and tranquility.
Another salient characteristic of these crimes is that the attack is generalized, therefore, the Isolated events, however aberrant they may be, cannot be classified within this type of crime.
The International Criminal Court or International Criminal Court is the permanent international court of justice that has the mission to try individuals accused of committing crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war.
Has a legal personality international and does not depend on United Nations Organization (UN), although, it is linked to this in those situations indicated by the Rome Statute. Has his headquarters in The Hague, in the Countries
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