Common use of Contextual Elements Clause in Contracts

Contextual Elements. In keeping with the name, war crimes are offences committed during times of armed conflict. These offences generally focus on acts targeting or harming persons and acts against property, and largely reflect the prohibitions set out in the Geneva Conventions of 1949, the Additional Protocols of 1977, and The Hague Regulations of 1899 and 1907. Under the Rome Statute of 351 See Rome Statute, article 7(1)(c) and 7(2)(c). 352 See Rome Statute, article 7(1)(e), 7(1)(f), and 7(1)(g). 353 See, e.g., ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Warrant and Second Bashir Arrest Warrant; Prosecutor v. ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, Case No.ICC-02/05-01-09, Case Information Sheet, 6 April 2017, ICC-PIDS-CIS-SUD-02-005/17_Eng (noting that ▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇ is charged with Five counts of crimes against humanity: murder (article 7(1)(a)); extermination (article 7(1)(b)); forcible transfer (article 7(1)(d)); torture (article 7(1)(f)); and rape (article 7(1)(g)); Two counts of war crimes: intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking part in hostilities (article 8(2)(e)(i)); and pillaging (article 8(2)(e)(v)); and Three counts of genocide: genocide by killing (article 6-a), genocide by causing serious bodily or mental harm (article 6-b) and genocide by deliberately inflicting on each target group conditions of life calculated to bring about the group’s physical destruction (article 6-c)). the ICC, war crimes are divided into those committed during international armed conflicts and those committed during non-international armed conflicts.354