International guidelines for managing investigation and collection of evidence of war crimes

Reglamento internacional de la organización de investigación y recolección de pruebas de delitos militares

• Nataliia Kononenko National Academy of Internal Affairs. Kyiv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0298-3958
• Valeriy Patskan Financial and Information Law. Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5104-9811
• Maryna Hromova Tara’s Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2177-6468
• Halyna Utkina Donetsk State University of Internal Affairs. Dnipro, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7513-4407
• Serebro Mykhailo Law and State of the National University "Odessa Law Academy", Odessa, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9942-3876

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.4072.39

Keywords: international humanitarian law, military offences, criminal investigation, evidence collection, proper judicial process

Abstract

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the international regulations of the organization of the investigation and collection of evidence of military crimes. The objective is to analyze the effective minimization of the impact of destructive factors on the investigation of military crimes, so it is necessary to create a special governmental institution to cooperate with the International Criminal Court with the appointment of national coordinators in relation to amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine, which provides for the possibility of investigation. The methodological basis of the research was the methods and techniques of scientific knowledge, specifically the main method of research was the dialectical method. It is concluded that the concept of investigation of military crimes committed in armed conflict and criminal prosecution of perpetrators can be defined as of important scientific and practical significance, a holistic interdisciplinary comprehensive theoretical system of activities under special conditions, which generally combines theoretical provisions on specific patterns in the field of legal support, organization of investigation and collection of evidence of military crimes. : search, arrest and transfer of officials involved in military crimes and implementation of international proceedings against the accused.

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