and for Rwanda.76 Therefore, there is nothing surprising in the fact that in recent years the attention has been focused – in theory and practice – on the national implementation (within the realm of the domestic law of the States) of the regulations of International Humanitarian Law.77 95. The grave violations of International Humanitarian Law (which are also grave violations of human rights), enshrined in the four Conventions of Geneva and the I Additional Protocol (supra) have also been felt in the Statute of Rome of 1998 of the International Criminal Court;78 its Article 8, upon identifying the elements of war crimes, for example, includes a broader list (than that of the four Conventions of Geneva) of the mentioned grave violations.79 The concept of said grave violations of International Humanitarian Law (and of human rights) perpetrated in domestic or non-international armed conflicts. 96. This reveals another situation amid the complexity of contemporary armed conflicts (domestic or non-international, as well as international): in case of grave violations of Humanitarian International Law (or the rights of the human being),80 contemporary International Criminal Law must be applied. The complexities of the situations of armed conflicts (domestic or international) are clear, and they reveal the pressing need for protection of all the victims, and to provide reparation to all of them, that is, - the victims of terrorist acts perpetrated both by mere individuals (including clandestine or non-identified agents) as well as by the State itself. In said circumstances, . 76 Ibid., pp. 95 and 231. . Cf., v.g., M. Bothe, P. Macalister-Smith y Th. Kurzidem (eds.), National Implementation of International Humanitarian Law, Dordrecht, Nijhoff, 1990, pp. 1-273; [Several Authors,] La Aplicación Nacional del Derecho Internacional Humanitario y de las Convenciones Interamericanas Relacionadas (Actas de la Conferencia de San José de Costa Rica de 2001), San José de Costa Rica, CICR/OEA, 2002, pp. 19-170; K. Drzewicki, "National Legislation as a Measure for Implementation of International Humanitarian Law", in Implementation of International Humanitarian Law / Mise-en-oeuvre du Droit international humanitaire (eds. F. Kalshoven y Y. Sandoz et alii), Dordrecht, Nijhoff, 1989, pp. 109-131; M. Bothe, "The Role of National Law in the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law", in Études et essais sur le droit international humanitaire et sur les principes de la Croix-Rouge en l'honneur de Jean Pictet (ed. Christophe Swinarski), Genève/La Haye, CICR/Nijhoff, 1984, pp. 301-312. 77 . 78 Cf., v.g., its Article 7, on crimes against humanity. . Cf., in this regard, v.g., Y. Ternon, op. cit. supra n. (45), pp. 52 and 56-57; R. Provost, International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Cambridge, University Press, 2005 [reprint], p. 106; L. Hannikainen, "Developments of Jus Cogens in International Law in the Post `Cold War' Years, in Particular in Human Rights Law", in Theory and Practice of Contemporary International Law - Essays in Honour of Prof. L. Alexidze on the 80th Birthday Anniversary, Tbilisi, Inovatia, 2007, pp. 44 and 49. And, for a substantial comment, cf. K. Dörmann, L. Doswald-Beck y R. Kolb, Elements of War Crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court - Sources and Commentary, Cambridge, University Press, 2003, pp. 1-498. 79 . 80 That constitute acts of genocide, crimes of war, or crimes against humanity. 28

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