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This research focuses on the concept of participation to the commission of a crime by way of omission. It submits that whereas it is established that certain omissions are settled in international law and could trigger the individual criminal responsibility of the accused, for instance under the principle of command responsibility and inaction under duty to act, no other principle of international law could justify the criminalization of any other omission as it was held in the Rutaganira case.The Rutaganira Judgement which is the appendix to this work has been reprinted in this book.
About the author
GRACIEUX MBUZUKONGIRA is a law professor with vast teaching experience in international law. He has taught at various universities in the East African region. Other than teaching activities he has held various
positions in academia including in the Directorate for postgraduate studies and the Office of Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Iringa in Tanzania. He is a guest researcher at the Max- Planck
Institute for Comparative Public and International Law in Heidelberg in Germany, he also teaches at the MIT-World Peace University-PUNE in India.
