Wars Humanising Wars

... most of the statutes of international criminal courts and tribunals, constituting one of the gravest (if not the gravest) international crime. World War II indisputably created (or at least substantively developed) international criminal law, and post-WWII tribunals showed that violations of international humanitarian law will not remain unpunished. Unfortunately, the Cold War due to political opposition of the two blocks impeded any future trials for other conflicts, unleashing the whole power of international criminal law only in the 1990s ...