"I was the person who filed the first lawsuit ever on genocide with the World Court on behalf of Bosnia against the rump Yugoslavia back in 1993. I won two court orders for Yugoslavia to cease and desist from committing genocide against the Bosnians," Boyle told Middle East Today.
He said based on his knowledge, judgment and experience he could do the same for Iran against Israel.
Boyle had previously petitioned the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, "But despite my best efforts he did not give me the authority to file the lawsuit. I doubt very seriously that President Abbas will either. Therefore, I am turning to the Islamic Republic of Iran in my quest to save the Palestinians from extermination by Israel."
Boyle declined to comment on why Arafat didn't authorize the lawsuit, but informed sources suggested he may have been concerned over the tenuous legality of his young state, and that a lawsuit accusing Israel of genocide may have had negative implications for the peace process by alienating the United States.
Boyle responded by saying that for obvious reasons neither of these issues should be of any particular concern to Tehran.
Article II of the 1948 Genocide Convention, of which Iran is a signatory, defines genocide as acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. Clauses include; (A) Killing members of the group; (B) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (C) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction.
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