Information that supports or verifies already existing evidence; also known as back-up information. Examples: Footage of injuries corroborating a medical exam, video of children training for war that supports military records documenting age, or footage of a hospital destroyed by airstrikes, backing up a witness statement detailing the shelling. med report MED. EXAM REPORT CONTEXTUAL EVIDENCE Sometimes context must be proved. For instance, a perpetrator cannot be convicted of murder as a war crime unless it is proven that the murder(s) happened in the context of an armed conflict. Absent this context, it is not a war crime, it is simply murder. In other cases, contextual evidence is not required, but can play an important role in illustrating what happened. This contextual evidence allows a judge or a jury to better understand the atmosphere, geographic location, or political climate in which the events occurred. Examples: Footage of life in the town before the conflict, of students going to school before and after an airstrike, of a hospital before it was taken over by military personnel, including the antennas and satellite dishes that went up; footage of the water supply before and after it was poisoned, of the physical impacts of climate change on a community, of a lack of basic needs in households, of military convoys, or of speeches by military officials in the lead up to a conflict. INFERENTIAL EVIDENCE Information that allows us to make an educated guess as to the intent of the perpetrator which must be further corroborated. Examples: A video of a body with severe trauma caused by beating likely points to the intent to administer severe pain. Images of a mass grave of victims shot execution style, with hands bound, points to an intent to kill. 47 VIDEO AS EVIDENCE: ALL ABOUT EVIDENCE V 1.0 LAW CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE