
Special Episode: The Rules of War
The Prospect Podcast
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Crimes Against Humanity
In two thousand and ten a definition of the crime of aggression was inserted into the rome statute. In theory an international criminal court in the hague would be able to prosecute a leader for that crime. Crimes against nitis doesn't really need to be connected to the armed conflict at all. It's a self standing crime now, and it can be committed against your own civilian population or the enemy's civilian population. The problem with janesides is that it's quite difficult to prove tat an individual had their intent to eliminate a group,. as opposed to just destroy a town or to kill a particular civilian.
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