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Article 6 Paragraph 1

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Of the Rome Statute

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The International Criminal Court

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sets out for the act of killing

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The crime of killing under the

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article 6 is committed as a part

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of the intent to destroy or

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with the intent to destroy

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a national, ethnic, racial or religious

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group, as such, in other words

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we join that paragraph with the Chapeau

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with the definition of genocide

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It's quite similar as a punishable act

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to what we find in the first paragraphs

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of the article 7 and 8

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crimes against humanity and war crimes

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all of them involving a crime of

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homicide or of killing or of murder

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that's associated with the contextual elements

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of the crime

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Ofcourse it probably seems obvious enough

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they are not really difficult or controversial

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than genocide because it involves the physical

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extermination of the group rather than the

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destruction of its culture

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that at the core of this is of course going to be homicide in effect

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killing and one might also add

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because the crime must be intentional

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it must be with the intent to destroy

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as a very general proposition it is going to involve murder

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that is intentional homicide

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The courts have excluded cases of killing

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associated with victims who were not members

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of the punishable group or who were not intended or

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were not understood by the perpetrators as the

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members of the punishable group

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Otherwise we basically in terms of applying

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the notion of killing, follow the rules

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that we know from ordinary criminal law,

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from domestic criminal law

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in terms of the crime of murder