TY  - JOUR
T1  - La Protección de bienes culturales en el Tribunal Penal Internacional para la ex Yugoslavia
A1  - Lostal Becerril, Marina
PB  - Asociación Española de Profesores de Derecho Internacional y Relaciones Internacionales
YR  - 2012
UL  - http://biblioteca.ararteko.eus/Record/dialnet-ar-18-ART0000544568
AB  - Since the outbreak of the Balkan war, three major events have taken place in what regards the
protection of cultural property in armed conflict: the adoption of the Statute of the International Criminal
Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia which gives this court jurisdiction to try crimes against cultural and
religious property; the approval of the Second Protocol to confirm and upgrade the obligations of the
"1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict"; and,
finally, the "2003 UNESCO Declaration concerning the Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage" motivated by the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan in 2001. While the latter two instruments have
been exhaustively examined in scholarly literature, no updated study of the ICTY case-law exists yet. In
this paper I go through all such cases and underline the following idea: the interpretation of ICTY has
given rise to an involution and an evolution vis-à-vis the treaty law for the protection of cultural property
in armed conflict; as well as to a doctrinal revolution by linking the destruction of cultural and religious
property to the crimes of persecution and genocide. Since the interpretation of the ICTY largely diverges
from the treatment afforded to cultural property in treaty law, I conclude that the protection of cultural
property in armed conflict has by now a double life: one conventional and one jurisprudential.
KW  - bienes culturales y religiosos
KW  - fines militares
KW  - persecución
KW  - genocidio
KW  - actus reus
KW  - mens rea
KW  - cultural and religious property
KW  - military purposes
KW  - persecution
KW  - genocide
KW  - means rea
ER  -