Author: Nema Milaninia PDF: Understanding Serious Bodily or Mental Harm as an Act of Genocide Abstract What is genocide? The typical answer immediately brings to mind incidents of large-scale killings like those in World War II, Rwanda, and Srebrenica. The same images, however, create an incomplete and potentially misleading picture of the crime. Genocide is a far broader concept than mass executions. The crime was deliberately designed to capture the variant and innumerable

African Union (orthographic projection)" by Heraldry (Source: Wikimedia - Creative Commons License) In June, the African Union granted sitting leaders of African countries immunity from prosecution for crimes against humanity, genocide, and war crimes by the African Court of Justice and Human Rights. The 23rd Assembly, composed of leaders of each African country, voted to adopt the Protocol on Amendments to the Protocol on the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human