making them crimes under internal law, and raising them to the level of international crime. - 33 -85.As to making illicit traffic in narcotio drugs a crime, some members of the (ommission stressed that attention should be focused OR international co-operation. Such co-operation, rather than the self-help often resorted to , unilaterally by certain States, should be the watchword. 86. With regard to the prevention and punisbsent of the illicit traffic in narcotic druqs, one member consi%ere% that it would be woli ta a%% to the list of crimes covere% by the Co%e a new form of crime, mco-urrorim *At its previous session, the Commission on Human Rights ha% adopte% a resolution entitle% “Consequenaes of acts of violence committea by irregular urmed groups an% %rug traffickers for thn enjoyment of human rights”, in which it stated its %eep concern at the crimes an% atrocities committea in meny countr:ee by Jrregular armed groups and %rug traffickers an% at the evi%ence of grooving links between them. Thers were now grounds far thinking that the terrorist movements rife a few years previously in Europe ha% had links with drug traffickers at one time. The same was currently true in several countries of Latin America where that new form o f crime constitute% a real threat to society. What was involve% was thus not only a crime against humanity but also a crime against peace, which should certainly be a crime under the Code. 87. The Special Rapporteur explsine% that he ha% submitted two separate %raft articles on the subject because, first, the distinction between crimes against puaco an% crimes against humanity ha% apparently alrea%y been established by ths Commission in its work on the %raft Code an%, secon%ly, because as some, members had already pointed out, there ware aspects of Lie iilicit traffic in narcotic drugs which belonge% to both those categories of crime.