″ without precision targeting and cluster bombs that contain many munitions. It’s as if Russia “has a checklist,” O’Brien says, “and they’re going through, ticking off the laws of war and violating them”.was set up 20 years ago in The Hague with the authority to prosecute war crimes, genocide, and wider crimes against humanity .
Thirty-nine states have referred the invasion of Ukraine to the International Criminal Court, pictured here, which has already opened an investigation.Deliberately targeting civilians is different to killing them in the “fog of war”, in the confusion of battle, when a civilian reaching for their mobile phone could be mistakenly thought to be drawing a gun.
It can be hard to prove direct responsibility higher up the chain of command, but leaders have been convicted before, includingfor sponsoring atrocities in neighbouring Sierra Leone. Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic was also put on trial by a UN tribunal but died before a verdict. If the court finds sufficient evidence to try Russia’s President, it could issue an arrest warrant.
“This is an opportunity to mobilise the law and send the law into battle, to protect and to deter, and to insist on accountability. Because if we don’t do this, we’re going to keep on having the sweet nothing’s of never again, of wringing our hands. And knowing what is coming tomorrow because we saw it yesterday.”
Sherryn_G chrizap Cough cough like US, Russia signed but not ratified and withdrew. Thus ICC is useless.
Sherryn_G chrizap And Putin's escape will be world war 3.
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