KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine and its global supporters must radically rethink how to secure justice for thousands of victims of Russian war crimes, a co-winner of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize said, by expanding the International Criminal Court and overhauling the lumbering, cumbersome system that has often failed to bring accountability after conflicts in Yugoslavia, Africa and the Middle East.
“We live in a new century and we must go further,” Matviichuk said, adding that Russia should not be allowed to delay investigations and judicial proceedings either by intimidation on the battlefield, or by wielding its veto in the United Nations Security Council. “Justice cannot be dependent on the magnitude of the Putin regime’s power.
That effort accelerated dramatically after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, subjecting cities like Mariupol to indiscriminate bombing, displacing millions, and seizing control of territories that Russia now claims to have annexed — in violation of international law.
And in the interview she grew emotional recalling the trial of a 21-year-old Russian sergeant who was sentenced to life imprisonment in May for the killing of Oleksandr Shelipov, a Ukrainian man shot in February while pushing his bicycle, unarmed, near his home. The awards represented a sharp rebuke to Putin one year after the committee awarded the peace prize to the editor of an independent Russian newspaper.
Rebecca Hamilton, who served as a lawyer at the ICC and now teaches law at American University, said the odds of achieving broad accountability might be higher in Ukraine because of the intense global focus on the war, which she attributed in part to systemic racism, linked to the fact the war is unfolding in Europe rather than in the global south."Ukraine may be the best-case scenario for what international criminal accountability can offer,” Hamilton said.
YEARS AGO VLADIMIR PUTIN BUILD RUSSIA & PUT HIS CONTRY IN THE MAP,YEARS LATER SAME PUTIN RUINED HIS CONTRY, FROM THE MOST POWERFUL ARMY IN THE WORLD 'ON PAPERS 'TO A BUNCH OF HUNGRY THUG WHO TERRORIZED UKRAINE & COMMITTED WAR CRIMES
I always knew that this Nobel awards were a scam
Reading this, I suddenly remembered when donald pardoned 3 of our own soldiers accused or convicted of war crimes. (The fight against fascism is truly global.
This war was started by NATO against Russia before 2014. The US trained Nazis on its territory, financed the euromaidan, all to create an anti-Russian state. Today Ukraine is a failed fascist and Nazi and terrorist state. Russia will demand the unconditional Surrender.-
She does realize that the country currently funding this war is also responsible for direct threats against the international criminal court members and their families in case that they ever prosecuted an American citizen over war crimes and crimes against humanity....
Russian fascism has to be stopped now 😡 😡 😡
And why are Republicans cheering on Russian atrocities?
It is incredible that the US media has yet to report on the conflicting policies of the Biden admin leading toward nuclear war. 1. Rely on inefficient Chinese green energy monopoly 2. Stop investing in US energy independence 3. Challenge a nuclear power to nuclear war. Well done
Eight years you mean?
Did she document any crimes of the Ukrainian Azov battalion?
I dig Ukranian women.
Nobel here
Any proposition from these so called activists on how to end this conflict besides whining and asking for more weapons? Quiet sickening at this point.
Hold account Israel too for atrocity against human rights, Venezuela,USA too, France, Australia, Germany,what else. It's more but in Africa it's a big damage to humanity with injection that being test in the people of Africa. Oh I remember, they are no important right