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.