Write down the key arguments for/against each of the counts:
Genocide of entire populations after victory
Examples: Tatars, Urgench, Balkh, Kreit, Zhongdu, Samarkand, Otar
Slaughter those who resisted to invoke terror.
Forcibly relocated people.
Used captured civilians and soldiers and meat shields or to fight for them.
Bukhara
Enslaved captured civilians.
Torture of captured nobles.
Boiling to death, Execution of entire families (Chinese royal family), Trampled to death (Kiev), Suffocation, etc.
Burning of cities and entire cultures.
Persecution of Muslims (Khwarezmian Empire)
Persecution of the Tatars
Persecution of people of the Xi Xia Dynasty (ethnocide)
Persecution of Russians
Killed his brother-in-law over ownership of food.
Burning and demolition of entire cities and empires.
Example: city of Merv, Khwarezmia Empire, Xi Xia Dynasty, Kyiv.
Damage and destruction of cultural and religious sites.
Example: House of Wisdom (Baghdad)
Killings of people involved in his burial to privatize Genghis Khans' burial site.
Torture of captured nobles.
Killing of entire populations.
Attack the city of Nishapur due to murder of his son-in-law. (Death of 1.7 million People)
Beheading all men, women, children and animals (three pyramids of skulls)
Battle of Legnica
Cutting off ears in order to count the number of the dead.
Defeat of the Tatars (Death of 90% of the people)
People who were taller than an axle pin to be beheaded
The lawyer and investigator will make appointments during Social Studies to interview each of the witnesses on Friday the 17th, Monday the 20th or Tuesday the 21st of March.
The lawyer and investigator need to prepare a list of questions for each of the witnesses, this will help them get an idea of what to ask during the trial, help them prepare the witnesses and discuss how best to conduct their arguments. Make detailed notes of each interview.
Deposition questions for each of the witnesses
Historian Ibn al-Athir Kyle
Pope Innocent IV Alex
Muhammad II, sultan of Khwarezm Cecile
Mstislav III of Kiev Hazel
Mustasim, caliph of Baghdad Vincent K
Genghis Khan Dennis
Ch'ang Ch'un Vivian
Jebe Wai
Historian Juvayni Vincent M
Marco Polo Eaint
Each side prepares opening statements and submit to the judge (Mr Holmes) on Teams Chat on the day of the Trial.
The prosecution calls their witnesses one by one to the witness stand and asks questions
The defence has an oppurtuinity to ask questions of each witness
The prosecution has the right to re-examine each witness
The defence calls their witnesses one by one to the witness stand and asks questions
The prosecution has an oppurtuinity to ask questions of each witness
The defence has the right to re-examine each witness
Each lawyer gives their closing statement. Prosecution then Defence.