Following on the judgments of the Nuremberg and Tokyo International Military Tribunals, in 1951 the International Law Commission (ILC), in pursuance of the General Assembly resolution, formulated a Draft Code of Offences Against the Peace and Security of Mankind. The Code embodied the principles of the Nuremberg trial.
The Code made reference to “persons” as guilty of crimes against the peace and security of mankind in an attempt to prevent them from sheltering behind the abstract entity of state.