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Crimes Against Humanity International Criminal Law
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Crimes against Humanity, International Law, Visualized. Animated explainer by Hesham Elrafei Lex Animata
In 1945, Crimes against Humanity first appeared in the Nuremberg Charter, as an egregious form of war crimes to prosecute mass atrocities committed against Jewish in Germany.
Later on, Crimes against Humanity have become a recognized part of international criminal law, being within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, defines a crime against Humanity as an act committed against civilians, as part of a widespread or systematic attack, committed against civilians, by a perpetrator with knowledge of the attack, and planned to be part of it.
The concept of ‘attack’ e...
published: 15 Jun 2022
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War Crimes Explained: The Rules of War, Crimes Against Humanity & Genocide
Right now, a lot of people are talking about war crimes, but what actually is a war crime, how difficult is it to punish a war criminal, and are war crimes ever justified? The simple answer to that last question, is: no.
0:00 Can War Crimes be Justified?
0:50 The Rules of War & International Humanitarian Law
1:41 What are the types of War Crimes?
2:42 What is Collective Punishment
3:10 Proportionality
3:38 What are Crimes Against Humanity?
4:20 What is Genocide?
4:50 How are War Crimes Proven?
5:58 How are War Criminals Punished?
The concept of "the rules of war" goes back a long time, but only recently did most of the world agree on how wars should be conducted. This is known as International Humanitarian Law and it's made up of a patchwork of different treaties and conventions, like th...
published: 19 Oct 2023
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Are Israel’s crimes against humanity enough to get banned from the UN?
Israel’s constant violations of the United Nations Founding Charter raises the question, can it be expelled as a UN member or not?
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published: 31 Oct 2024
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A Crime Against Humanity
Pope Francis reminds us that human trafficking is a crime against humanity. See how CRS uses a strategy of prevention, protection, prosecution, and partnership to support people at risk of trafficking. Visit crs.org/trafficking for more information.
published: 23 May 2017
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Introduction to Crimes Against Humanity | International Criminal Law
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The Law Academy is a project designed to provide legal education for students studying law in the UK. Subscribe for more content.
Citations and Sources
- A. Cassese & P. Gaeta, Cassese’s International Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 2013).
- R. Cryer, An Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Disclaimer:
At no point are these video lessons intended to provide any sort of legal advice. These are for educational purposes only!
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published: 01 May 2024
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'Crimes Against Humanity': Hayes On Holding Leaders Accountable For Covid Failure
“This is the first time I've seen some official action taken that accurately represents how I feel about the crimes we have all witnessed,” says Chris Hayes on a panel finding Brazil's president at fault for their botched Covid response. “Bolsonaro and Trump, along with several others like them around the world, willfully got hundreds of thousands of people killed.”
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published: 21 Oct 2021
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Explained: The Crimes Against Humanity Treaty
In April 2023, the United Nations Sixth Committee will discuss the draft treaty on crimes against humanity. The draft treaty, advanced by a historic resolution in November 2022 after years of delay, would be the first standalone international treaty that codifies crimes against humanity and establishes duties to prevent and punish them.
To get some more background on the treaty, we spoke to Leila Sadat. Leila is a professor of international criminal law at Washington University and a special adviser on crimes against humanity to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
published: 10 Apr 2023
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A brief list of the United States’ War Crimes against Humanity
Here's a list of a few of the worst war atrocities the USA has carried out since it was gifted the Statue of Liberty back in 1884.
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published: 24 Apr 2022
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The Cement Company Found Complicit in Crimes Against Humanity | Tales From the Bottle
How did a cement company get charged for complicity in crimes against humanity? Not in the way you think!
"According to The New York Times, a representative of the French construction company Lafarge S.A. met with representatives of numerous militias from northern Syria in Gaziantep in the autumn of 2012, a city in southern Turkey, to negotiate an agreement. Executives from Lafarge agreed to pay terrorist organizations like the Islamic State on a monthly basis in order to protect their business. The extremists offered to stifle competition and provided papers to the company's drivers assuring safe passage for its cargo. The company was continuing payments even though the Islamic State was capturing, torturing, and killing prisoners. In August 2014, about a month after the Islamic State e...
published: 12 Apr 2024
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What is the difference between war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide?
James Waller, Keene State College.
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published: 11 Nov 2022
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Crimes Against Humanity International Criminal Law
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Crimes against Humanity, International Law, Visualized. Animated explainer by Hesham Elrafei Lex Animata
In 1945, Crimes against Humanity fi...
#internationallaw
Crimes against Humanity, International Law, Visualized. Animated explainer by Hesham Elrafei Lex Animata
In 1945, Crimes against Humanity first appeared in the Nuremberg Charter, as an egregious form of war crimes to prosecute mass atrocities committed against Jewish in Germany.
Later on, Crimes against Humanity have become a recognized part of international criminal law, being within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, defines a crime against Humanity as an act committed against civilians, as part of a widespread or systematic attack, committed against civilians, by a perpetrator with knowledge of the attack, and planned to be part of it.
The concept of ‘attack’ encompasses systematic offenses, like murder, extermination, torture, Enslavement, Deportation or forcible transfer of population; Imprisonment, or other severe deprivation of physical liberty, like Enforced disappearance of persons and the crime of apartheid;
in addition it also includes widespread violent sexual violence like rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, and enforced sterilization,
or any Other inhumane acts intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body, or to mental or physical health.
An attack is ‘widespread’ if it contains a large number of victims, whereas it is ‘systematic’ where the acts in question reflect a pattern.
https://wn.com/Crimes_Against_Humanity_International_Criminal_Law
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Crimes against Humanity, International Law, Visualized. Animated explainer by Hesham Elrafei Lex Animata
In 1945, Crimes against Humanity first appeared in the Nuremberg Charter, as an egregious form of war crimes to prosecute mass atrocities committed against Jewish in Germany.
Later on, Crimes against Humanity have become a recognized part of international criminal law, being within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, defines a crime against Humanity as an act committed against civilians, as part of a widespread or systematic attack, committed against civilians, by a perpetrator with knowledge of the attack, and planned to be part of it.
The concept of ‘attack’ encompasses systematic offenses, like murder, extermination, torture, Enslavement, Deportation or forcible transfer of population; Imprisonment, or other severe deprivation of physical liberty, like Enforced disappearance of persons and the crime of apartheid;
in addition it also includes widespread violent sexual violence like rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, and enforced sterilization,
or any Other inhumane acts intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body, or to mental or physical health.
An attack is ‘widespread’ if it contains a large number of victims, whereas it is ‘systematic’ where the acts in question reflect a pattern.
- published: 15 Jun 2022
- views: 15514
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War Crimes Explained: The Rules of War, Crimes Against Humanity & Genocide
Right now, a lot of people are talking about war crimes, but what actually is a war crime, how difficult is it to punish a war criminal, and are war crimes ever...
Right now, a lot of people are talking about war crimes, but what actually is a war crime, how difficult is it to punish a war criminal, and are war crimes ever justified? The simple answer to that last question, is: no.
0:00 Can War Crimes be Justified?
0:50 The Rules of War & International Humanitarian Law
1:41 What are the types of War Crimes?
2:42 What is Collective Punishment
3:10 Proportionality
3:38 What are Crimes Against Humanity?
4:20 What is Genocide?
4:50 How are War Crimes Proven?
5:58 How are War Criminals Punished?
The concept of "the rules of war" goes back a long time, but only recently did most of the world agree on how wars should be conducted. This is known as International Humanitarian Law and it's made up of a patchwork of different treaties and conventions, like the Geneva Conventions which were created after WWII.
Because International Humanitarian Law is pulling from a number of different sources, not all countries agree on every single law within it. They may recognise one convention, but not another - but pretty much every country recognises the core ideas of minimising suffering and protecting people not involved in the fighting.
So, what are the different types of war crimes? The Rome Statute breaks it down into 3 different categories: War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide - there's a bit of overlap, but they're largely separate.
War crimes are when you break the rules of war during an armed conflict, and there are a lot of different crimes that fall under this category (killing civilians, torture and taking hostages, denying medical care, attacking historical monuments, forcing people to leave their homes).
It's not just what you do during a conflict, but also how you conduct yourself when you’re actually fighting (child soldiers, using civilians as human shields - e.g. firing missiles from inside a crowded school, so your enemy can't retaliate).
There's also something called collective punishment (punishing a group of people because you suspect some might be enemies). Then there’s the use of certain weapons. They may be considered inhumane because they cause unnecessary suffering, or it could be because they’re indiscriminate, not targeted, and likely to cause collateral damage & harm civilians.
A war crime can be the death of just one person, whereas crimes against humanity are often organised campaigns with the aim of killing or torturing or displacing a large group of civilians over a period of time. Another big difference is that crimes against humanity don’t need to take place during a conflict. Think Apartheid in South Africa, or the way that Joseph Stalin used to make his political opponents disappear in the Soviet Union.
The final category is genocide. What separates genocide from Crimes Against Humanity is that the end goal needs to be the complete destruction of an entire group of people. Genocide also doesn't technically have to involve killing. It could take the form of trying to starve a group of people, or taking away their children.
When it comes to proving war crimes, Human Rights groups play a big role in the collection of evidence. That can involve interviewing witnesses and survivors, working with local organisations and journalists, and going through huge amounts of photos and videos to try to reconstruct events.
Human Rights Groups create detailed reports and pass them on to international bodies or governments, or use them to pursue legal action.
Prosecuting war criminals in court, is challenging for a number of reasons. Proving a war crime has taken place can be straightforward, but linking it to an individual, can be very tough. Also, it’s often not possible to go to court in the country where the crime was committed, because the country may still be at war, or it may be the government that has committed the crime.
There are international tribunals and courts like the ICC, but its powers are limited because not every country recognises its authority. Another option are the domestic courts of countries that have universal jurisdiction (e.g. France in 2014, convicting Pascal Simbikangwa for his role in the Rwandan Genocide).
Actual war crime convictions aren't all that common, but that doesn't mean that the work of Human Rights Groups goes to waste. Detailed reports and evidence can lead to international pressure, and travel bans on war criminals. Early reporting on war crimes can also sometimes help to stop a conflict from escalating, and it can lead to support and assistance for victims of war crimes and make sure that the crimes committed against them aren't forgotten. - Story by Nicholas Maher
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Right now, a lot of people are talking about war crimes, but what actually is a war crime, how difficult is it to punish a war criminal, and are war crimes ever justified? The simple answer to that last question, is: no.
0:00 Can War Crimes be Justified?
0:50 The Rules of War & International Humanitarian Law
1:41 What are the types of War Crimes?
2:42 What is Collective Punishment
3:10 Proportionality
3:38 What are Crimes Against Humanity?
4:20 What is Genocide?
4:50 How are War Crimes Proven?
5:58 How are War Criminals Punished?
The concept of "the rules of war" goes back a long time, but only recently did most of the world agree on how wars should be conducted. This is known as International Humanitarian Law and it's made up of a patchwork of different treaties and conventions, like the Geneva Conventions which were created after WWII.
Because International Humanitarian Law is pulling from a number of different sources, not all countries agree on every single law within it. They may recognise one convention, but not another - but pretty much every country recognises the core ideas of minimising suffering and protecting people not involved in the fighting.
So, what are the different types of war crimes? The Rome Statute breaks it down into 3 different categories: War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide - there's a bit of overlap, but they're largely separate.
War crimes are when you break the rules of war during an armed conflict, and there are a lot of different crimes that fall under this category (killing civilians, torture and taking hostages, denying medical care, attacking historical monuments, forcing people to leave their homes).
It's not just what you do during a conflict, but also how you conduct yourself when you’re actually fighting (child soldiers, using civilians as human shields - e.g. firing missiles from inside a crowded school, so your enemy can't retaliate).
There's also something called collective punishment (punishing a group of people because you suspect some might be enemies). Then there’s the use of certain weapons. They may be considered inhumane because they cause unnecessary suffering, or it could be because they’re indiscriminate, not targeted, and likely to cause collateral damage & harm civilians.
A war crime can be the death of just one person, whereas crimes against humanity are often organised campaigns with the aim of killing or torturing or displacing a large group of civilians over a period of time. Another big difference is that crimes against humanity don’t need to take place during a conflict. Think Apartheid in South Africa, or the way that Joseph Stalin used to make his political opponents disappear in the Soviet Union.
The final category is genocide. What separates genocide from Crimes Against Humanity is that the end goal needs to be the complete destruction of an entire group of people. Genocide also doesn't technically have to involve killing. It could take the form of trying to starve a group of people, or taking away their children.
When it comes to proving war crimes, Human Rights groups play a big role in the collection of evidence. That can involve interviewing witnesses and survivors, working with local organisations and journalists, and going through huge amounts of photos and videos to try to reconstruct events.
Human Rights Groups create detailed reports and pass them on to international bodies or governments, or use them to pursue legal action.
Prosecuting war criminals in court, is challenging for a number of reasons. Proving a war crime has taken place can be straightforward, but linking it to an individual, can be very tough. Also, it’s often not possible to go to court in the country where the crime was committed, because the country may still be at war, or it may be the government that has committed the crime.
There are international tribunals and courts like the ICC, but its powers are limited because not every country recognises its authority. Another option are the domestic courts of countries that have universal jurisdiction (e.g. France in 2014, convicting Pascal Simbikangwa for his role in the Rwandan Genocide).
Actual war crime convictions aren't all that common, but that doesn't mean that the work of Human Rights Groups goes to waste. Detailed reports and evidence can lead to international pressure, and travel bans on war criminals. Early reporting on war crimes can also sometimes help to stop a conflict from escalating, and it can lead to support and assistance for victims of war crimes and make sure that the crimes committed against them aren't forgotten. - Story by Nicholas Maher
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- published: 19 Oct 2023
- views: 39200
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Are Israel’s crimes against humanity enough to get banned from the UN?
Israel’s constant violations of the United Nations Founding Charter raises the question, can it be expelled as a UN member or not?
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Israel’s constant violations of the United Nations Founding Charter raises the question, can it be expelled as a UN member or not?
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- published: 31 Oct 2024
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A Crime Against Humanity
Pope Francis reminds us that human trafficking is a crime against humanity. See how CRS uses a strategy of prevention, protection, prosecution, and partnership ...
Pope Francis reminds us that human trafficking is a crime against humanity. See how CRS uses a strategy of prevention, protection, prosecution, and partnership to support people at risk of trafficking. Visit crs.org/trafficking for more information.
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Pope Francis reminds us that human trafficking is a crime against humanity. See how CRS uses a strategy of prevention, protection, prosecution, and partnership to support people at risk of trafficking. Visit crs.org/trafficking for more information.
- published: 23 May 2017
- views: 20125
8:49
Introduction to Crimes Against Humanity | International Criminal Law
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- A. Cassese & P. Gaeta, Cassese’s International Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 2013).
- R. Cryer, An Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
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- R. Cryer, An Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
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At no point are these video lessons intended to provide any sort of legal advice. These are for educational purposes only!
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- published: 01 May 2024
- views: 1001
6:50
'Crimes Against Humanity': Hayes On Holding Leaders Accountable For Covid Failure
“This is the first time I've seen some official action taken that accurately represents how I feel about the crimes we have all witnessed,” says Chris Hayes on ...
“This is the first time I've seen some official action taken that accurately represents how I feel about the crimes we have all witnessed,” says Chris Hayes on a panel finding Brazil's president at fault for their botched Covid response. “Bolsonaro and Trump, along with several others like them around the world, willfully got hundreds of thousands of people killed.”
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“This is the first time I've seen some official action taken that accurately represents how I feel about the crimes we have all witnessed,” says Chris Hayes on a panel finding Brazil's president at fault for their botched Covid response. “Bolsonaro and Trump, along with several others like them around the world, willfully got hundreds of thousands of people killed.”
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- published: 21 Oct 2021
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Explained: The Crimes Against Humanity Treaty
In April 2023, the United Nations Sixth Committee will discuss the draft treaty on crimes against humanity. The draft treaty, advanced by a historic resolution ...
In April 2023, the United Nations Sixth Committee will discuss the draft treaty on crimes against humanity. The draft treaty, advanced by a historic resolution in November 2022 after years of delay, would be the first standalone international treaty that codifies crimes against humanity and establishes duties to prevent and punish them.
To get some more background on the treaty, we spoke to Leila Sadat. Leila is a professor of international criminal law at Washington University and a special adviser on crimes against humanity to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
https://wn.com/Explained_The_Crimes_Against_Humanity_Treaty
In April 2023, the United Nations Sixth Committee will discuss the draft treaty on crimes against humanity. The draft treaty, advanced by a historic resolution in November 2022 after years of delay, would be the first standalone international treaty that codifies crimes against humanity and establishes duties to prevent and punish them.
To get some more background on the treaty, we spoke to Leila Sadat. Leila is a professor of international criminal law at Washington University and a special adviser on crimes against humanity to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
- published: 10 Apr 2023
- views: 927
4:43
A brief list of the United States’ War Crimes against Humanity
Here's a list of a few of the worst war atrocities the USA has carried out since it was gifted the Statue of Liberty back in 1884.
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Here's a list of a few of the worst war atrocities the USA has carried out since it was gifted the Statue of Liberty back in 1884.
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Here's a list of a few of the worst war atrocities the USA has carried out since it was gifted the Statue of Liberty back in 1884.
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- published: 24 Apr 2022
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8:34
The Cement Company Found Complicit in Crimes Against Humanity | Tales From the Bottle
How did a cement company get charged for complicity in crimes against humanity? Not in the way you think!
"According to The New York Times, a representative o...
How did a cement company get charged for complicity in crimes against humanity? Not in the way you think!
"According to The New York Times, a representative of the French construction company Lafarge S.A. met with representatives of numerous militias from northern Syria in Gaziantep in the autumn of 2012, a city in southern Turkey, to negotiate an agreement. Executives from Lafarge agreed to pay terrorist organizations like the Islamic State on a monthly basis in order to protect their business. The extremists offered to stifle competition and provided papers to the company's drivers assuring safe passage for its cargo. The company was continuing payments even though the Islamic State was capturing, torturing, and killing prisoners. In August 2014, about a month after the Islamic State executed the American journalist James M. Foley, executives arranged the delivery of financial advances to the group as part of their agreement to keep the facility operating, according to emails seized by the U.S. authorities.
In June 2016, France launched an investigation into Lafarge's activities in Syria, in response to reports by a French journalist Dorothée Myriam Kellou. Kellou's reports were published by Le Monde and France 24 and revealed deals Lafarge made with a variety of armed groups, including the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorist group, in order to keep its cement plant in Syria operational. On September 19, 2014, ISIL took control of the factory. LafargeHolcim executives were investigated in 2017 for these claims in the civil and criminal courts. That action followed a complaint filed in November by Sherpa, a nongovernmental organization, accusing Lafarge of involvement in war crimes by conducting business with the terrorist organisation Islamic State in order to keep its Syria facility operating, despite UN sanctions against the group.
The French court inquiry discovered that between 2012 and 2014, the business paid up to 13 million euros (approximately $17.5 million at the time) to various armed groups, including the Islamic State, via its Syrian subsidiary Lafarge Cement Syria. According to the study, the subsidiary paid these payments to maintain its cement facility in northeastern Syria operational despite the continuous fighting, kidnappings, and security concerns experienced by its workers. Lafarge tried to dismiss the claims that the payments were made not to support ISIS, but to allow Lafarge to continue commercial operations, and stated that the business and its executives could not be held liable for the actions of its Syrian subsidiary. Initially, the Paris Court of Appeals agreed with Lafarge.
In 2018, eight former firm leaders, including two former CEOs, were charged with supporting terrorists and endangering the lives of their employees in Syria. All of those executives resigned, and the firm merged in 2015 with the Swiss cement conglomerate Holcim. The former officials may face up to 10 years in jail if proven guilty of the accusation."
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How did a cement company get charged for complicity in crimes against humanity? Not in the way you think!
"According to The New York Times, a representative of the French construction company Lafarge S.A. met with representatives of numerous militias from northern Syria in Gaziantep in the autumn of 2012, a city in southern Turkey, to negotiate an agreement. Executives from Lafarge agreed to pay terrorist organizations like the Islamic State on a monthly basis in order to protect their business. The extremists offered to stifle competition and provided papers to the company's drivers assuring safe passage for its cargo. The company was continuing payments even though the Islamic State was capturing, torturing, and killing prisoners. In August 2014, about a month after the Islamic State executed the American journalist James M. Foley, executives arranged the delivery of financial advances to the group as part of their agreement to keep the facility operating, according to emails seized by the U.S. authorities.
In June 2016, France launched an investigation into Lafarge's activities in Syria, in response to reports by a French journalist Dorothée Myriam Kellou. Kellou's reports were published by Le Monde and France 24 and revealed deals Lafarge made with a variety of armed groups, including the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorist group, in order to keep its cement plant in Syria operational. On September 19, 2014, ISIL took control of the factory. LafargeHolcim executives were investigated in 2017 for these claims in the civil and criminal courts. That action followed a complaint filed in November by Sherpa, a nongovernmental organization, accusing Lafarge of involvement in war crimes by conducting business with the terrorist organisation Islamic State in order to keep its Syria facility operating, despite UN sanctions against the group.
The French court inquiry discovered that between 2012 and 2014, the business paid up to 13 million euros (approximately $17.5 million at the time) to various armed groups, including the Islamic State, via its Syrian subsidiary Lafarge Cement Syria. According to the study, the subsidiary paid these payments to maintain its cement facility in northeastern Syria operational despite the continuous fighting, kidnappings, and security concerns experienced by its workers. Lafarge tried to dismiss the claims that the payments were made not to support ISIS, but to allow Lafarge to continue commercial operations, and stated that the business and its executives could not be held liable for the actions of its Syrian subsidiary. Initially, the Paris Court of Appeals agreed with Lafarge.
In 2018, eight former firm leaders, including two former CEOs, were charged with supporting terrorists and endangering the lives of their employees in Syria. All of those executives resigned, and the firm merged in 2015 with the Swiss cement conglomerate Holcim. The former officials may face up to 10 years in jail if proven guilty of the accusation."
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James Waller, Keene State College.
More videos with Waller: https://www.choices.edu/scholar/james-waller
This video is part of the following Choices Program curriculum unit: Confronting Genocide: Never Again? - https://www.choices.edu/genocide
Perspectives from history. Choices for today.
https://www.choices.edu
History and Current Issues curriculum for secondary schools and introductory college courses.
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