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International court by the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 955
The legal definition of genocide under the 1948 Genocide Convention requires acts (killing, causing serious harm, deliberately inflicting destructive conditions, preventing births, or forcible transfe...
Several international tribunals have confronted the crime of , most notably the (SCSL) which produced multiple convictions, while earlier forums such as the and the (ICTR) recognized or enabled prosec...
Courts deciding genocide claims have relied on a mix of legal tests—proof of specific intent to destroy a protected group, large-scale acts (killings, conditions of life, forcible transfers), and cont...
The Nuremberg proceedings established individual criminal responsibility and rejected blanket superior‑orders defenses—most famously through the Nuremberg Principles and Article 8 of the IMT Charter—c...