TAKE HOME POINTS The points below are summary of the key lessons from this section. Know The Rules And Know When To Break Them Modify the suggestions here to meet your needs. Your Role As a person on the frontlines, you are uniquely placed to gather linkage and notice evidence and in turn, can provide valuable information about the perpetrators to investigators and lawyers who aren’t on the ground. Prove What, Who & How To successfully hold a perpetrator accountable a lawyer must prove: • What crime was committed; • Who committed the crime; and • How the perpetrator committed the crime. Activists tend to document the “What”. If you are living somewhere where mass atrocities or daily human rights violations are endured, your efforts to capture “Who” committed the crime and “How” they did it by capturing linkage and notice evidence will likely prove to be of greater importance for long-term justice and accountability. Modes Of Liability In general, there are six primary ways to describe how a person can commit a crime. They are: • individual perpetration • co-perpetration, conspiracy or joint criminal enterprise • aiding and abetting • instigation or incitement • ordering • command or superior responsibility It’s valuable to learn to use video to show “How” a person committed a crime because this tends to be the most difficult aspect of a case. 134 VIDEO AS EVIDENCE: PROVING RESPONSIBILITY V 1.0 FILMING Your safety and the safety of those you are filming comes first. None of this guidance is absolute.