The right of international jurisdiction to consider the crime of genocide under the International Criminal Court

Abstract

The crime of genocide is one of the crimes directed against the human race. It can even be described as the most serious international crime and as a crime of crimes, because of the threat it poses to a person’s life, health, and dignity. Its seriousness appears in the fact that it threatens to exterminate an entire group or groups for religious, ethnic, or racial reasons. Or tribal...etc. And as serious as this crime is, and so that the perpetrators of the crime do not escape punishment, and in order to achieve criminal justice, it must take on an international and universal nature, represented by the International Criminal Court, to ensure a fair trial, represented by the imposition of the harshest punishments on its perpetrators and the means it has of redressing the damage. And compensation for those affected.