Birchgrove Legal Submission to the ICC

​← Australian Government Facing ICC Scrutiny​

In early March, Sydney law firm Birchgrove Legal presented a communiqué to International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan consisting of 92 pages of documented evidence, claiming that the Australian PM and a number of other high level local politicians are complicit in the Gaza genocide.

On Tuesday this week, the firm announced that the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC had added the document “to the evidence gathered as part of the ICC’s investigation into the Situation in the State of Palestine”, as well as having been transmitted “to relevant staff members for further review”.

The claim was lodged under article 15 of the Rome Statute, which provides that the ICC prosecutor will analyse the evidence and if it’s enough to proceed, they will submit it to the pre-trial chamber, which, on examination, may call for extra evidence, and if satisfied, it can launch an investigation.

On the 4 March presenting of The Conduct of Members of the Parliament of Australia, in Relation to the Situation in Gaza, Palestine: Accessorial Liability for Genocide communiqué to Khan, Anthony Albanese became the first leader of a western nation to be referred to the ICC for prosecution.

And now that the Article 15 claim has been accepted into the evidence of the broader investigation of allegations of war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories, which could lead to potential prosecutions, the PM and other major party politicians listed now face that same prospect. 

Genocide Complicity Claim Against Australian PM Added to the ICC’s Palestine ​Investigation 

Question:

to what extent do you agree with birchgrove legal's claim that the Australian PM and a number of other high level local politicians are complicit in the Gaza genocide?