Genocide, Its Particular Intent to Destroy in Whole or in Part the Group as Such

Leiden Journal of International Law

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 399-408

  Triffterer, Otto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

dolus eventualis; elements of crimes; genocide; International Criminal Court; International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; mens rea

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014593895     PISSN: 09221565     EISSN: 14789698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0922156501000206     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Art. 6 Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court, adopted by the United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court (Rome Statute) of 17 July 1998, UN Doc. A/CONF.183/9, reprinted with the Final Act of the Conference in Ch. Rosbaud & O. Triffterer, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, English, Français, Espanol, Deutsch (2000). All articles without any further identification are those of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
2. For details see, for instance, W.A. Schabas, Genocide in International Law 213 (2000) and, in particular, 243 et seq.; see also W.A. Schabas, The Jelesic case and the mens rea of the Crime of Genocide, id.
3. For details see Triffterer, Kriminal-politische und dogmatische Überlegungen, For details see introductory footnote, at 1438 et seq. and Section 3 below.
4. For details see D. Piragoff, Article 30, in O. Triffterer (Ed.), Commentary on the Rome Statute (1999); and Schabas, Genocide, For details see Triffterer note 2, both with further references.
5. Prosecutor v. Akayesu, Judgment, Case No. ICTR-96-4-T, 2 September 1998.
6. For the Draft Elements of Crimes, adopted 30 June 2000 and the Report of the Commission see http://www.un.org/law/icc/statute/elements/elemfra.htm.
7. See for more details Triffterer, Kriminalpolitische und dogmatische Überlegungen, For the Draft Elements of Crimes introductory footnote, at 1441 et seq.
8. The decision of the Appeals Chamber in the Jelisic case (IT-95-10-A) dating 5 July 2001 was available only after this Article went into print in April 2001. However it does not raise aspects nor does it make the foregoing considerations superfluous or expresses an opinion contrary to them. See in the Jelisic judgment of the Appeals Chamber para. 42 et seq.