In the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, crimes against humanity are well defined.  With respect to China's handling of the Wuhan Coronavirus, there is sufficient evidence that the Communist Party of China is guilty of crimes against humanity. The statute specifically states: [C]rimes against humanity do not need to be linked to an armed conflict and can also occur in peacetime, similar to the crime of genocide. In particular, the statute explains that only one of the eleven criminal acts defined needs to be committed to qualify for prosecution in the International Criminal Court.  The criminal act that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is guilty of is the eleventh act defined by the statute in Article 7 Section 1, Other Inhumane Acts. The failure of the CCP to act early on to address the outbreak of the Wuhan Coronavirus might be defended as incompetence.  However, the fact that there was a concerted effort to suppress...(Read Full Post)