U.S. and U.N. Withhold Genocide Label for Sudanese Crisis
/The humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region in
Sudan has reached deadly proportions: thousands killed, one million
people displaced, over 150,000 refugees fleeing into neighbouring Chad
and entire villages wiped out by marauding militia groups. [more]
Genocide is foremost an international crime for which individuals, no matter how high in authority, may be indicted, tried, and punished by the International Criminal Court (ICC). According to Article 6 of the ICC Statute, This crime involves, "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
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Genocide is foremost an international crime for which individuals, no matter how high in authority, may be indicted, tried, and punished by the International Criminal Court (ICC). According to Article 6 of the ICC Statute, This crime involves, "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
- (a) Killing members of the group;
- (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
- (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group
conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction
in whole or in part;
- (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
- (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group." [more]
