Genocide and Intent to Kill Revisited
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will soon issue a judgment in the case brought by the Gambia against Myanmar involving serious allegations of genocide committed against the Rohingya group. This article revisits a technical issue that the ICJ may wish to clarify in its final judgment. Genocide involves the commission of an underlying act both with the general intent to commit the underlying act itself and with the specific intent to thereby contribute to the destruction of a group in...