National Prosecution of Genocide from a Comparative Perspective

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National Prosecution of Genocide from a Comparative Perspective HELMUT KREICKER Head of the Section “International Criminal Law” at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany I. Introduction 1. From international law reforms to national law reforms The field of international criminal law has gained much attention since the world order fundamentally changed after the breakdown of the socialist sys- tem at the end of the eighties. The two UN-Tribunals were established in 1993 and 1994. In 1998, the first permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) was founded with the adoption of the Rome Statute. 1 Only