Question of intent makes genocide hardest crime to prove
International courts have set an extremely high standard of proof when it comes to showing intent to commit genocide
The definition of genocide outlined in a 1948 UN convention is quite vague and the crime is extremely hard to prove in the international courts.
The convention sets the bar for genocide as “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such”.
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