Trump’s post ‘may constitute a threat to commit genocide’: Amnesty chief
We have more from Agnes Callamard, the head of Amnesty International, on Trump’s threats against Iran as his Strait of Hormuz deadline approaches quickly.
“Donald Trump’s very act of making such apocalyptic threats, including his warning of ending ‘a whole civilization’, reveals a staggering level of cruelty and disregard for human life,” Callamard said in a statement.
Noting that attacks on civilians and civilian sites are prohibited, she said the US president’s “threat of extermination and irreparable destruction brazenly shreds core rules of international humanitarian law, with potentially catastrophic consequences for over 90 million people”.
It also “may constitute a threat to commit genocide”, Callamard said, which is defined under the UN’s Genocide Convention and the International Criminal Court’s Rome Statute as acts committed with an “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such”.
She urged the international community to “urgently intervene to avert an impending catastrophe and unequivocally affirm that inciting, ordering or committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide entail individual criminal responsibility under international law”.
Trump’s post "may constitute a threat to commit genocide": Amnesty chief
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