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Can A State Commit A Crime? Definitely, Yes!, Alain Pellet Jan 1998

Can A State Commit A Crime? Definitely, Yes!, Alain Pellet

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

As is well known, the International Law Commission (ILC) decided in 1976 to include an article in its Draft Articles on State Responsibility that makes a distinction between normal international wrongful acts, which it called delicts, on the one hand, and exceptionally grave breaches of international law which it called international crimes, on the other hand.