{"id":31875,"date":"2026-09-08T06:06:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalserviceindia.com\/Legal-Articles\/?p=31875"},"modified":"2026-09-08T06:21:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:21:51","slug":"germany-nicaragua-icj-case-arms-transfers-genocide-state-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalserviceindia.com\/Legal-Articles\/germany-nicaragua-icj-case-arms-transfers-genocide-state-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Supplying Weapons Make a State Responsible for Genocide? Germany\u2013Nicaragua ICJ Case Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/span>A landmark international-law battle over arms transfers, genocide prevention, state responsibility and the limits of ICJ jurisdiction<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cA weapon may leave the factory in silence, but responsibility does not always end at the factory gate. When the risk becomes impossible to ignore, the real legal question is no longer who supplied the weapon\u2014it is who knew, who could act, and who chose not to.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Adv. Tarun Choudhury<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There is a question now before the International Court of Justice in The Hague that reaches far beyond Germany, Nicaragua or the present conflict in Gaza:<\/p>

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