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The KAMPALA AMENDMENTS to the Rome Statute (2010) activated the CRIME OF AGGRESSION jurisdiction. The crime is defined in:

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Correct answer: A.
1. The Kampala Review Conference of the Rome Statute (May-June 2010) adopted amendments DEFINING the CRIME OF AGGRESSION and conditions for ICC jurisdiction. 2. Article 8 bis Rome Statute defines: 3. (1) CRIME OF AGGRESSION: 'the planning, preparation, initiation or execution, by a person in a position effectively to exercise control over or to direct the political or military action of a State, of an act of aggression which, by its character, gravity and scale, constitutes a manifest violation of the Charter of the United Nations.' 4. (2) ACT OF AGGRESSION: 'the use of armed force by a State against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of another State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Charter of the United Nations.' 5. The crime jurisdiction was ACTIVATED on 17 July 2018. 6. Hence option B is correct. _Source: International HR Treaties + Indian Constitutional Jurisprudence — Rome Statute Article 8 bis (inserted by Kampala Amendments 2010, activated 2018)_
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