Crime of Enforced Disappearance: Nature, Scope and Impact

The crime of enforced disappearance and the humanrights violations associated with this crime became serious concern of international criminal lawafter the Second World War. During the Nuremburg Trials,The Nuremburg International Military Tribunal (IMT) established the practice of enforced disappearance as a war crime which violates multiple human rights of the victims and later the NMT declared the practice of enforced disappearance as a war crime as well as a crime against humanity. Fromthe evaluation of developmentsof law relating to enforceddisappearance, it can be understood that, the enforced disappearance is a crime against humanity which violate multiple human rights of the victims under the international criminal law. On the analysis of the concept of victims of enforced disappearance,it can be seen that the victims of this crime not onlylimited to the persons subject to deprivation of the liberty butalso includes all persons suffered any direct harm due to the crime and has the right to get remedy. The basic objective of this research is to analysis the nature, scope and impact of crime of enforced disappearance. This research is divided in to three parts. The first part of this research will discuss the concept, meaning and the elements of crime. Then first part of this research is also discussing about the concept of crime under international law. The second part of this research is discussing about the crime of enforced disappearances and its nature, scope and elements. The last part of this research is focused on the concept of victims of enforced disappearancesand this part made a detailed discussions about the impact of enforced disappearanceson victims.