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There is no official body to decide which official body gets to be the official body that decides if a genocide is going on.
Maybe we should focus less on whether it's "official" and more on stopping it, regardless of how it's labeled.
Yes, the International Criiminal Court is the only entity that can declare that the International law of genocide has been broken
You decided.
No sir. It's a law, I'm not an ICC judge. I don't get to decide.
Whereas I decide for myself what I think is genocide based on whether I've seen convincing evidence of it being genocide. Like, for example, this Amnesty International report. I don't outsource my sense of morality to judges and let them overrule my own sense of justice.
If an ICC judge one day decided "no, it's okay for Russia to deport the population of Ukraine, the country was always theirs to begin with" would that make it okay somehow? Or would that simply be the time you decided to withdraw your grant of "officialness" to the ICC?
Which law? Laws have names and titles. They are published publicly and they can be linked to. Please provide a link to the law you are referring to.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/genocide#%3A%7E%3Atext=Under+Article+25%283%29%28%2Ca+crime+against+international+law.
You're linking to a statute of the ICC, The Rome Statute, which provides that inciting or committing genocide is against the ICC's definition of International Law and the ICC will attempt to prosecute accordingly. That statute was not ratified by the United States, so the United States is not bound to uphold that statute. Israel also did not ratify, so is also not bound. That doesn't mean that the ICC can't prosecute Israel or the US under the statute, but it does mean that they are explicitly not responsible for upholding it. Your argument is that the United States is bound by whether the ICC determines genocide has occurred, and that is explicitly not the case according to the statute you linked.
Edit to add: The Rome Statute is the document which established the ICC. As a nation that did not ratify the document, not only is the United States not limited by the ICC determining if genocide occurred or not, the US explicitly rejects the ICC's authority to do so. It means the exact opposite of what you're saying.
Why do you restrict the determination in America's politics body to whether something is a genocide to the ICC? The ICC has laws and a court system to declare something a genocide within their framework (albeit with limited actual power to enforce anything), but the concept of genocide exists outside of international law and political entities can and should react to such without simply waiting for a years long ICC process. Genocide is not simply when the "International Law of Genocide" has been decided.
As I said elsewhere, the US can recognize an event as it pleases. But, the Amnesty International determination is meaningless.
Amnesty International is a well-respected human rights organization, this belief that you need a rule or certificate of authority to say your judgement is meaningful is silly legalism. All declarations of human rights abuses are meaningful in political realms simply based on the stature and respect of the organization making them.
When talking about the law of genocide that's funny