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Office Of The Prosecutor : An Investigation Into The Events That Took Place

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Office of the Prosecutor, ICC
TO: [name of recipient]
FROM: [name of author]
DATE: [date]
RE: [subject of memo]
Introduction
This memo addresses the issue of whether this office has sufficient grounds to launch an investigation into the events that took place in Minoropolis.
Issues
The issues that arise from the facts are;
Systematicplanned attack and retaliation.
Forceful eviction of civilian population.
Murder.
Torture.
Racial Slur or Hate Speech.
Discussion
Article 7 of the Rome Statute, Crimes against Humanity defines murder and extermination. A crime against humanity occurs when a party commits a widespread or systematic attack against a civilian population that includes certain acts such as …show more content…

The term organization must satisfy certain criteria put down by an ICC Pre-Trial Chamber, the organization must have a hierarchy of command, possess the means to carry out a widespread or systematic attack, exercises control over a part of the territory of a State, and has criminal activities against a civilian population as a purpose. In Minora, the drug cartels are said to be well organized and have authority throughout the Minora country with the help of local police.Their criminal activities have brought violence to the country with victims being both rivals of member gangs and ordinary citizens. The drug cartels also use military weapons such as automatic weapons and grenade launchers that are used to attack the government forces.
The definition of a non-international armed conflict is provided for under International Humanitarian Law (Bouchet-Saulnier, Brav, & Michel 426). Common Article 3 to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and modified by Art. 1 of Additional Protocol II to state that the conflict must have an extended period of violence, and the parties must be organized and armed. The conflict in Minora between the government forces and drug cartels has taken place since January 2014 and went on until September. This can be said to be a long period of violence. In the case of Prosecutor v Tadic`

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