Question: Please access the NATO report available on this web page relating to the assessment of the NATO bombing of Kosovo.
Critically assess the importance of this report for international criminal law. You may, if you wish, either provide a general review of the report or examine a specific issue raised by it that you consider is significant for ICL.
Answer: NATO controversially utilised cluster munitions in its air bombing campaign of Kosovo. Despite this being a topic of great controversy in the ICL arena, we see how the OTP in their Report give it – what can only be described as - a “fairly short shrift” . Arguably this could be deemed indicative of the Committee’s intentions to steer clear of what has developed to become a matter of “dubious legality” . Regardless, their approach to the issue has bluntly been summarised by one scholar as “disappointing”.......(short extract)
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Details: - Mark: 70% | Course: International Law | Year: 2nd/3rd | Words: 3177 | References: Yes | Date written: February, 2008 | Date submitted: April 20, 2009 | Coursework ID: 489
