'Individual commission' in document 'Botswana - Geneva Convention Act'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

An Act to enable effect to be given in Botswana to certain international conventions made at Geneva on the 12th of August, 1949, and for purposes connected therewith.

Punishment of Offenders Against Conventions

3. (1) Any person, whatever his nationality, who, whether in or outside Botswana,commits, or aids, abets or procures the commission by any other person of, any such grave breach of any of the
scheduled conventions as is referred to in the following articles respectively of those conventions, that is to say-

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 25
Individual criminal responsibility
3. In accordance with this Statute, a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person:
(a) Commits such a crime, whether as an individual, jointly with another or through another person, regardless of whether that other person is criminally responsible