Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic and Orthopaedic Sciences, 9311Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Med Sci Law. 2023 Apr;63(2):168-173. doi: 10.1177/00258024221125135. Epub 2022 Sep 9.
The International Criminal Court has recently opened an investigation into the international crimes committed on Ukrainian territory. The ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war is a tragic opportunity for a necessary critical and scientific reading of the Rome Statute. In our work, we aim to critically analyse the contents of the International Criminal Court's Rome Statute, with particular attention to the definition and listing of war crimes. Our objective is to assess whether the content of the Rome Statute and the Geneva Convention is useful to provide a correct and complete orientation of the medico-legal work in the context of war. We believe, in fact, that the forensic pathologists, and forensic experts in general, are the only professional figures specialised in providing scientific evidence of crimes compatible with war crimes. Their timely intervention and the standardisation of their work - in association with a review of the deficient content found in the Rome Statute - is essential in order to allow the prosecution of international crimes, already potentially undermined by the slowdowns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic that is the backdrop to the current conflict.
国际刑事法院最近对在乌克兰领土上犯下的国际罪行展开调查。正在进行的俄乌战争为对《罗马规约》进行必要的批判性和科学性解读提供了一个难得的机会。在我们的工作中，我们旨在批判性地分析国际刑事法院《罗马规约》的内容，特别关注战争罪的定义和列举。我们的目标是评估《罗马规约》和《日内瓦公约》的内容是否有助于对战时的法医工作提供正确和完整的指导。事实上，我们认为法医病理学家和一般法医专家是唯一专门提供符合战争罪的犯罪科学证据的专业人员。为了能够起诉国际犯罪，他们的及时干预和工作标准化——与审查《罗马规约》中发现的缺陷内容相结合——至关重要，因为目前的冲突是在与 COVID-19 大流行相关的放缓的背景下发生的，而这种放缓已经对国际犯罪的起诉造成了潜在的破坏。
