So – what are the crimes that Aegis Students campaign against?
Following the lead of the Aegis Trust, Aegis students campaigns to prevent, raise awareness and bring an end to events labelled ‘mass atrocities’.
Mass atrocities are characterised by the large scale loss of civilian life through conflict, massacre, ‘ethnic cleansing’ and persecution. In legal terms mass atrocities include genocide, crimes against humanity and large scale war crimes.
The crime of genocide, sometimes called the ‘crime of crimes’, is the primary focus of our work however, within the category of mass atrocities also fall Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes.
Crimes Against Humanity have most recently been defined in Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
War Crimes (defined in Art 8 of the Rome Statute) are acts committed during times of war, such as murder, torture and attacking civilians, “in particular when committed as part of a plan or policy or as part of a large-scale commission of such crimes.”
Aegis Students takes it policy and stance in relation to classification and definition of mass-atrocities as being any of the above crimes, solely from the Aegis Trust.
For further info, please see.
http://www.aegistrust.org/Genocide/what-are-mass-atrocities.html
http://untreaty.un.org/cod/icc/statute/romefra.htm
http://www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html
