{"id":654681,"date":"2010-02-04T08:27:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T13:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=11170"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:15:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:15:52","slug":"the-standard-for-determining-intent-to-commit-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/654681","title":{"rendered":"The Standard for Determining Intent to Commit Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Julian Ku <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Kevin notes, the ICC Appeals Chamber has overruled the Pre-Trial Chamber on the question of whether Sudan&#8217;s President Bashir can be charged with genocide.\u00a0 In a very useful note, <a  href=\"http:\/\/ceboe-osuji.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/evidential-correct-standard-for-arrest.html\">Chile Eboe-Osuji points out here <\/a>that the Appeals Chamber did not in fact provide the Pre-Trial Chamber with guidance on what standard it should adopt to determine whether there was sufficient evidence of the &#8220;intent&#8221; to commit genocide to issue an arrest warrant.\u00a0 As he puts it,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">Curiously, though, the Appeals Chamber declined to give guidance to the Pre-Trial Chamber as to the correct applicable standard for the issuance of a warrant of arrest. Rather, the Appeals Chamber left it up to the Pre-Trial Chamber to devise the correct standard, as they reconsidered the case. This is not very helpful.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole post to see his best guess as to what the standard will be.\u00a0 I would be curious to see if folks have different views than his.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/opiniojurisfeed\/~4\/M7PU1mUZ-Qk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Julian Ku As Kevin notes, the ICC Appeals Chamber has overruled the Pre-Trial Chamber on the question of whether Sudan&#8217;s President Bashir can be charged with genocide.\u00a0 In a very useful note, Chile Eboe-Osuji points out here that the Appeals Chamber did not in fact provide the Pre-Trial Chamber with guidance on what standard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Kjn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755855,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654681\/revisions\/755855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}