• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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    7 months ago

    I completely agree but legally speaking the intentionality does matter in terms of the genocide case, etc. So that’s why I am curious what evidence we have. But intent is almost always the hardest piece of a crime to prove.

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      7 months ago

      legally speaking

      Which law?

      Because US law requires intent, but I’m not sure ICC/ICJ have the same requirements.

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        7 months ago

        From the ICC’s web page:

        First, the crime of genocide is characterised by the specific intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial or religious group by killing its members or by other means: causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; or forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

        Note the repeated reference to deliberate or intentional actions. So proving intent is a big question in this case.