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Preliminary Material
Dedication
Foreword
Preface
Contents
Table of Cases and Documents
I Official Documents and Reports
A United Nations Documents and Reports
B Statutory Instruments
C Treaties and International Conventions
D Other Documents and Reports
E Second World War Material and Documents
II Jurisprudence
A Second World War Case Law
B International(ized) Tribunals
1 Permanent Court of International Justice
2 International Court of Justice
3 European Court of Human Rights
4 Inter-American Court of Human Rights
5 African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
6 International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
7 International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
8 International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals
9 International Criminal Court
10 East Timor Tribunal
11 Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
12 Special Court for Sierra Leone
13 Special Tribunal for Lebanon
14 Extraordinary African Chambers
15 International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
C National Cases
1 Argentina
2 Australia
3 Austria
4 Belgium
5 Bosnia & Herzegovina
6 Canada
7 Chile
8 Denmark
9 Ethiopia
10 Estonia
11 France
12 Germany
13 Guatemala
14 Israel
15 Iraq
16 Italy
17 Kenya
18 Kosovo
19 Latvia
20 Mexico
21 Philippines
22 The Netherlands
23 Spain
24 Serbia
25 Switzerland
26 South Africa
27 United Kingdom
28 United States of America
Main Text
1 Towards a Universal Law of International Crimes: General Introduction
1.1 What Are International (‘Core’) Crimes?
1.2 A Brief History of International Crimes
1.3 The Making of the Law of International Crimes
1.4 Towards a Nascent Universal Law of International Core Crimes
1.5 Conclusions
2 A Short History of the Crime of Genocide
2.1 Birth of the Notion of Genocide
2.2 Genocide at Nuremberg
2.3 Recognition of Genocide as a Crime under International Law: Resolution 96(I) and the Genocide Convention
2.4 International Criminal Tribunals and the Advancement of the Law of Genocide
3 Genocide under General International Law
3.1 Scope of Application—General Considerations
3.2 Peace and War
3.3 States and Individuals
3.3.1 General considerations
3.3.2 Conditions of liability
3.3.2.1 Different regimes of liability
3.3.2.2 Modes of participation and inchoate offences specific to genocide
3.3.2.3 Different mens rea
3.3.2.4 No additional element of policy
3.3.3 No category of individuals excluded
3.3.3.1 General application of the prohibition
3.3.3.1.1 Status, rank, and position irrelevant
3.3.3.1.2 Monarchs
3.3.3.1.3 Nationality of perpetrator and victim
3.3.3.2 Superior orders
3.3.3.2.1 The Convention and customary international law
3.3.3.2.2 Article 33 ICC Statute
3.4 Temporal and Territorial Framework
3.4.1 Temporal scope of application
3.4.2 Geographical scope of application
3.5 Gravity of the Crime
3.6 Normative Status
3.6.1 Customary law status
3.6.2 Jus cogens
3.6.3 Erga omnes
3.7 Principles of Interpretation
3.7.1 Between strict and humanitarian approaches to interpretation
3.7.2 Interpreting the notion of genocide at the ICC
3.8 Exclusion from Refugee Status
4 Jurisdiction to Investigate and Prosecute Acts of Genocide
4.1 Jurisdictions Foreseen by the Convention
4.1.1 General considerations
4.1.2 Two penal jurisdictions expressly foreseen
4.1.3 No exclusion of other penal jurisdictions
4.1.4 The International Court of Justice
4.2 Universal Jurisdiction
5 Duties to Prevent and to Punish Genocide
5.1 General Considerations
5.1.1 The duties to prevent and punish in the Genocide Convention and under customary international law
5.1.1.1 Two distinct duties
5.1.1.2 Customary law status of duties
5.1.1.3 Timeliness and diligence in fulfilment
5.1.1.4 Erga omnes obligations
5.1.2 Those bound by the duties
5.1.2.1 States but not individuals
5.1.2.2 Which states?
5.1.2.3 Non-state armed groups
5.1.2.3.1 The Convention
5.1.2.3.2 Customary international law
5.1.2.4 International organizations
5.1.2.5 The UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly
5.1.2.5.1 The UN Security Council
5.1.2.5.2 The UN General Assembly
5.1.2.6 Prosecutors
5.1.3 Duty to punish under the ICC regime
5.2 Duty to Prevent
5.2.1 General considerations
5.2.1.1 Genocide as precondition
5.2.1.2 Who is bound by the obligation to prevent?
5.2.1.3 An obligation of means
5.2.1.4 Duty to prevent whose actions?
5.2.1.5 Geographical scope of application
5.2.2 Elements of the duty to prevent
5.2.2.1 Punishment no alternative to prevention
5.2.2.2 Duty of diligence
5.2.2.3 Content of duty
5.2.2.3.1 Duty to refrain from contributing to acts of genocide
5.2.2.3.2 Duty to adopt all measures
5.2.2.3.3 Referring of issue to the UN is insufficient
5.2.2.3.4 Duty to stop and suppress
5.2.2.3.5 Duty to protect one’s population
5.2.2.3.6 Unilateral countermeasures
5.2.2.3.7 A duty à géometrie variable
5.2.2.4 Compliance with the duty
5.2.2.5 A right to inaction?
5.2.3 Duty to prevent and ‘responsibility to protect’
5.2.4 Duty to prevent and complicity in genocide
5.3 Duty to Punish
5.3.1 General considerations
5.3.1.1 Genocide as precondition
5.3.1.2 An obligation of means
5.3.1.3 Duty to punish whose actions?
5.3.1.4 Geographical scope of application
5.3.2 Elements of duty to punish
5.3.2.1 General considerations
5.3.2.2 Duty to adopt the requisite legal framework
5.3.2.3 Duty to do no harm
5.3.2.4 Duty to investigate and prosecute
5.3.2.5 Duty to punish, delegation of competence, and non-surrender agreements
5.3.2.5.1 Punishment through others
5.3.2.5.2 Non-surrender agreements
5.3.2.6 Duty to transfer or extradite suspects
5.3.2.6.1 An implied duty to transfer/extradite
5.3.2.6.2 Genocide is not a political crime
5.3.2.6.3 Where prosecution and extradition are not possible
5.3.2.7 Duty to cooperate
5.3.2.7.1 Duty to cooperate with the territorial state and with an international penal tribunal
5.3.2.7.2 Duty to cooperate with other jurisdictions?
5.3.2.7.3 Content of the duty to cooperate
5.3.2.8 Duty not to give legal effect to such acts
5.3.2.9 Countermeasures and plea of necessity
6 Immunities, Amnesties, and Statutes of Limitation
6.1 Immunities
6.1.1 Immunities under the Convention
6.1.2 Immunities under customary law
6.1.2.1 Inapplicability of immunities as defence or bar to jurisdiction
6.1.2.2 Immunities and judicial cooperation
6.1.2.3 Immunities and civil proceedings
6.1.3 Immunities and the ICC
6.1.3.1 Interplay between Articles 27 and 98 of the Rome Statute
6.1.3.2 Waiver of immunities
6.2 Amnesties
6.2.1 Amnesties and international crimes
6.2.1.1 No general exclusion of amnesties for all international crimes
6.2.1.2 No acquired rights under international law
6.2.1.3 No extra-territorial effect of amnesties
6.2.2 Amnesties and genocide
6.2.3 Amnesties and the ICC
6.3 Statutes of Limitation
6.3.1 The Genocide Convention and the customary law exclusion of statutory limitations
6.3.2 Statutory limitations and the ICC
6.3.3 Statutory limitations and civil actions
7 Contextual Element
7.1 The Convention and Customary International Law
7.1.1 No contextual element
7.1.2 No requirement of plan or policy
7.2 The ICC Regime
7.2.1 The Statute
7.2.2 The Elements of Crimes
7.2.3 Contextual element and mens rea
8 Special Genocidal Intent/Dolus Specialis
8.1 General Considerations
8.1.1 Special intent as a characteristic feature of genocide
8.1.2 Meaning and content
8.1.3 Lowered mens rea standard for certain forms of participation
8.1.4 Premeditation not required
8.1.5 Motives
8.2 Intent ‘To Destroy’
8.2.1 Destruction as an element of mens rea
8.2.1.1 Destruction must be intended; it does not need to have occurred
8.2.1.2 Destruction of the group and killing of victims not the same
8.2.1.3 Intent to destroy not limited to civilians
8.2.2 Intended physical or biological destruction
8.2.2.1 Destruction versus discrimination, dissolution, and displacement
8.3 In Whole or In Part
8.3.1 Alternative objects—a group as a whole or a part thereof
8.3.2 ‘In whole’
8.3.2.1 A sufficiently distinct and cohesive group
8.3.2.2 Importance of identifying the group as a whole
8.3.3 ‘In part’
8.3.3.1 Meaning
8.3.3.1.1 A ‘substantial’ part of a group
8.3.3.1.2 Substantial part versus significant part
8.3.3.1.3 ‘In part’ and actual victimization
8.3.3.2 Relevant evidential factors
8.3.3.2.1 Number of victims
8.3.3.2.2 Other factors
8.3.3.2.3 Case-by-case assessment
8.3.3.3 Geographically circumscribed group of individuals
8.3.3.4 Targeting of multiple groups
8.4 A National, Ethnic, Racial, or Religious Group
8.4.1 The group as protected interest
8.4.2 Existence and composition
8.4.2.1 General considerations
8.4.2.2 Objective and subjective factors
8.4.2.3 Subjective considerations
8.4.2.4 No necessary legal assessment from the perpetrator
8.4.2.5 Form and structure of the group
8.4.2.6 Targeting based on membership in protected group
8.4.3 Positive definition of protected group
8.4.4 National, ethnic, racial, or religious character of group
8.4.4.1 General considerations
8.4.4.1.1 From ‘national minorities’ to national, ethnical, racial, and religious groups
8.4.4.1.2 Overlapping character of protected groups
8.4.4.1.3 Context-specific determination of character of the group
8.4.4.1.4 ‘Auto-genocide’
8.4.4.2 National
8.4.4.3 Ethnic(al)
8.4.4.4 Racial
8.4.4.5 Religious
8.4.4.6 Exhaustiveness of the list of protected groups?
8.4.4.6.1 The Convention and customary law
8.4.4.6.2 ‘Stable and permanent’ groups
8.4.4.6.3 Groups not covered
8.4.4.6.4 Domestic regimes
8.5 ‘As Such’
8.5.1 A protected group beyond the immediate victim
8.5.2 Individual victims targeted because of membership in a protected group
8.5.2.1 Membership as reason for targeting
8.5.2.2 Randomness in targeting
8.5.2.3 Crimes committed against non-members
9 Establishing Genocidal Intent
9.1 Evidential Challenges
9.2 Standard of Proof and Drawing of Inferences
9.3 Holistic Approach to Assessment of Evidence
9.3.1 Evidence to be considered as a whole and in context
9.3.2 Nature and quality of the evidence
9.3.3 Genocidal intent and reasoned opinion
9.4 Basis for Inference and Relevant Evidential Factors
9.4.1 General considerations
9.4.2 Evidence of conduct and statements of the accused
9.4.3 Genocidal intent of third parties
9.4.4 Motives and inference of special intent
9.4.5 Method used
9.4.6 Initial steps in a genocidal process
9.4.7 Other contextual factors
9.4.7.1 Scale and number of crimes committed
9.4.7.2 Unrealistic goals
9.4.7.3 Attacks on cultural and religious objects
9.4.7.4 Acts of forcible displacement
9.4.7.5 Discriminatory acts
9.4.7.6 Plan or policy to commit crimes
9.4.7.7 Commission of genocidal acts
9.4.7.8 Mental disorder
9.4.7.9 ‘Good deeds’
10 Punishable Acts
10.1 General Observations
10.1.1 Five categories of punishable acts
10.1.2 Gravity and potential effect on the group
10.1.3 Element of intentionality
10.2 Killing Members of the Group
10.2.1 Actus reus
10.2.1.1 Definition
10.2.1.2 Overlap with other genocidal crimes
10.2.2 Mens rea
10.3 Causing Serious Bodily or Mental Harm to Members of the Group
10.3.1 Actus reus
10.3.1.1 Definition
10.3.1.2 Serious harm
10.3.1.2.1 ‘Physical or mental’
10.3.1.2.2 ‘Serious’
10.3.1.3 Categories of qualifiable acts
10.3.2 Mens rea
10.4 Deliberately Inflicting on the Group Conditions of Life Calculated to Bring about Its Physical Destruction in Whole or in Part
10.4.1 Actus reus
10.4.1.1 Definition
10.4.1.2 No requirement of result
10.4.1.3 ‘Calculated’ to bring about physical destruction
10.4.1.4 Categories of qualifiable acts
10.4.1.5 Conditions of life and other genocidal offences
10.4.2 Mens rea
10.5 Imposing Measures Intended to Prevent Births within the Group
10.5.1 Actus reus
10.5.1.1 Definition
10.5.1.2 Type of relevant underlying conduct
10.5.1.3 Evaluating the measures
10.5.1.4 Measures intended to prevent birth and other genocidal acts
10.5.2 Mens rea
10.6 Forcibly Transferring Children of the Group to Another Group
10.6.1 Actus reus
10.6.1.1 Underlying act
10.6.1.2 Nature of the act—cultural genocide in disguise?
10.6.1.3 Age of the victim—who are ‘children’?
10.6.2 Mens rea
10.7 Exhaustive Character of the List?
11 Genocide, Other Genocidal Acts, and Modes of Participation
11.1 General Considerations
11.1.1 Range of prohibited conduct
11.1.2 Categories of potential perpetrators
11.1.3 Manner, form, and method of commission and culpable contribution
11.2 Genocide
11.2.1 Genocide as ‘the crime of crimes’
11.2.2 Elements of genocide
11.3 Conspiracy to Commit Genocide
11.3.1 General considerations
11.3.2 Raison d’être
11.3.3 An inchoate and continuing offence
11.3.3.1 An inchoate offence
11.3.3.2 A continuing offence
11.3.4 Definition of the offence
11.3.4.1 Elements
11.3.4.2 Actus reus
11.3.4.2.1 Agreement to commit genocide
11.3.4.2.2 Joining in the conspiracy
11.3.4.2.3 Proving the agreement
11.3.4.3 Mens rea
11.3.5 Conspiracy to commit genocide and genocide
11.3.6 Conspiracy to commit genocide and the ICC Statute
11.4 Direct and Public Incitement to Commit Genocide
11.4.1 Nature of the offence
11.4.1.1 An inchoate offence
11.4.1.2 No continuing offence
11.4.1.3 Gravity of the offence
11.4.2 Elements
11.4.2.1 General definition
11.4.2.2 Incitement
11.4.2.2.1 Context-specific assessment
11.4.2.2.2 Incitement versus hate speech and propaganda
11.4.2.2.3 Forms of incitement
11.4.2.3 ‘Direct’
11.4.2.3.1 Definition
11.4.2.3.2 Relevant factors and considerations
11.4.2.4 ‘Public’
11.4.2.4.1 Definition
11.4.2.4.1.1 ‘Public’ as an element of the actus reus and mens rea
11.4.2.4.1.2 Private incitement excluded
11.4.2.4.2 Relevant factors and considerations
11.4.2.5 Mens rea
11.4.3 Direct and public incitement, genocide, instigating genocide, and persecution
11.4.3.1 Incitement and genocide
11.4.3.2 Incitement and instigation
11.4.3.3 Incitement and persecution
11.4.4 ICC regime
11.5 Attempt to Commit Genocide
11.5.1 Attempt under international criminal law
11.5.2 Attempt to commit genocide—elements and definition
11.5.2.1 The Convention and customary international law
11.5.2.2 ICC law
11.6 Complicity in Genocide
11.6.1 General considerations
11.6.2 Elements
11.6.2.1 Definition and reach
11.6.2.2 An act of genocide as a prerequisite
11.6.2.3 Actus reus
11.6.2.4 Mens rea
11.6.3 Complicity in genocide and genocide
11.7 Other Forms of Criminal Participation?
11.7.1 General considerations
11.7.2 Other forms of culpable involvement in genocide
11.7.2.1 Committing
11.7.2.2 Planning
11.7.2.2.1 General elements
11.7.2.2.2 Planning genocide
11.7.2.3 Ordering
11.7.2.3.1 General elements
11.7.2.3.2 Ordering genocide
11.7.2.4 Instigating
11.7.2.4.1 General elements
11.7.2.4.2 Instigating genocide
11.7.2.5 Aiding and abetting
11.7.2.5.1 General elements
11.7.2.5.1.1 Customary law status
11.7.2.5.1.2 Actus reus
11.7.2.5.1.3 Specific direction?
11.7.2.5.1.4 Mens rea
11.7.2.5.1.5 ICC’s Article 25(3)(c)
11.7.2.5.2 Aiding and abetting genocide
11.7.2.5.2.1 General conditions
11.7.2.5.2.2 Form of contribution
11.7.2.5.2.3 Mens rea
11.7.2.6 Command responsibility
11.7.2.6.1 General elements
11.7.2.6.2 Command responsibility and genocide
11.7.2.7 Joint criminal enterprise and co-perpetration
11.7.2.7.1 General elements
11.7.2.7.2 Joint criminal enterprise and genocide
11.7.2.8 The ICC regime of liability for acts of genocide
11.7.2.8.1 No genocide-specific regime of liability
11.7.2.8.2 Deviations from customary international law
11.7.2.8.3 The various statutory modes of liability
11.7.2.8.4 The issue of the mens rea
11.7.2.8.4.1 Special intent
11.7.2.8.4.2 ‘General intent’
12 Genocide and Other International Crimes
12.1 Genocide in a Nutshell
12.2 Genocide and War Crimes
12.2.1 Common and overlapping elements
12.2.2 Differences
12.2.2.1 Different origins and scope of application
12.2.2.2 Different aims and protected interests
12.2.2.3 Different material elements
12.2.2.3.1 Armed conflict and nexus therewith
12.2.2.3.2 Genocidal intent
12.2.2.3.3 Potential victims
12.2.2.4 Gravity
12.2.2.5 Other normative differences
12.2.2.5.1 Duty to punish
12.2.2.5.2 Duty to prevent
12.2.2.5.3 Amnesties
12.3 Genocide and Crimes against Humanity
12.3.1 Common features
12.3.2 Differences
12.3.2.1 Different mens rea and relevance of groups
12.3.2.2 Range of underlying crimes
12.3.2.3 Widespread or systematic attack
12.3.2.4 Protected individuals
12.3.2.5 Specific inchoate offences for genocide
12.3.2.6 Policy element
12.3.2.7 Gravity
12.3.2.8 Other normative differences
12.3.3 Genocide and persecution
12.3.3.1 Same genus
12.3.3.2 Different mens rea
12.3.3.3 Different actus reus
12.3.3.4 Relative gravity of underlying acts
12.3.3.5 Factual overlap
12.3.4 Genocide and extermination
12.3.4.1 Common features
12.3.4.2 Differences
12.3.5 Genocide and enforced sterilization
12.3.6 Genocide, forcible transfer/deportation, and ‘ethnic cleansing’
12.3.6.1 The notion of ‘ethnic cleansing’
12.3.6.2 Intent to forcibly displace not the same as intent to destroy
12.3.6.3 Evidential overlap
12.4 Genocide and Aggression
12.5 Genocide and Terrorism
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International Crimes: Law and Practice: Volume I: Genocide
Guénaël Mettraux
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