State Responsibility for Complicity in Genocide

This study aims at analyzing the provision set forth in Article III (e) of the 1948 Genocide Convention with respect to case when the notion of complicity is applied to States. As recognized by the International Court in its judgement of 2007 in the Genocide case, complicity, when referred to States, means aiding and assisting another entity in the commission of a genocide. Many aspects of this prohibition are rather obscure. This include the scope of the notion of complicity and the subjective requirement for State complicity in genocide. The paper aims at shed light on this issues.