Citaat | Rechtbank Den Haag 16 juli 2014

Onder 2 Rechtbank Den Haag 16 juli 2014

Een alinea uit Rechtbank Den Haag 16 juli 2014, ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2014:8748.

431. (…) In fact, a State’s obligation to prevent, and the corresponding duty to act, arise at the instant that the State learns of, or should normally have learned of, the existence of a serious risk that genocide will be committed. From that moment onwards, if the State has available to it means likely to have a deterrent effect on those suspected of preparing genocide, or reasonably suspected of harbouring specific intent (dolus specialis), it is under a duty to make such use of these means as the circumstances permit. However, if neither genocide nor any of the other acts listed in Article III of the Convention are ultimately carried out, then a State that omitted to act when it could have done so cannot be held responsible a posteriori, since the event did not happen which, under the rule set out above, must occur for there to be a violation of the obligation to prevent. (…)” (Emphasis provided by the District Court).

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