THE DISCUSSION ON SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS UNDER THE CONCEPT OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

Authors : Haydar Karaman

Pages : 130-146

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Publication Date : 2018-06-30

Article Type : Research

Abstract :The United States immediately chose to label the September 11 terrorist attacks as an act of war rather than as a criminal act requiring remedy through legal remedies. However, this approach have potentially shattering consequence for international law and disrupting some crucial legal categories of international law Therefore, this article analyses the September 11 terrorist attack on the US through crime against humanity which is one of the legal categories of international law. The article draws upon terrorism issue under the Crime Against Humanity concept to rethink the legal categories and to emphasize the dilemma of how to legal respond when the attack targets civilian. The focus of this article will be on the question whether the September 11 attacks is a crime against humanity or not. From the point to forth, the article investigates the international laws to point out how the attacks are prosecuted as a crime against humanity. The article, therefore, will be structured as follows. The first part will discuss theoretical bases of crimes against humanity. The second part will examine the characteristic feature of the September 11 attacks as a terrorism. The third part will consider the elements of crime against humanity and the international jurisprudence on terrorism as a crime against humanity. The Third and final part will draw the conclusions.
Keywords : September 11, Crime Against Humanity, terrorist attack