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Putin and war crimes

2022-03-19T05:08:43.453Z


The intervention of the International Criminal Court reduces the chances of leaving the actions of the Russian leader unpunished


It is becoming a little less true that the truth is the first victim of a war.

Today, the graphic and filmed documentation of the monstrosity that descends on Ukraine is huge and ungovernable on social media and as long as the internet works.

The destruction of the Mariupol theater where hundreds of civilians were taking refuge, the bombing of a maternity hospital or the images with thousands of buildings gutted by the impacts of artillery have toured mobile phones and screens around the world.

Since Thursday, these images and testimonies begin to swell the investigation promoted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) after its visit to Lviv on Wednesday, the same day that the city received the first registered artillery fire in an area very close to the polish border.

The delegation headed by Karim Kahn, chief prosecutor of the court, visited Ukraine on the spot and held a telematic interview with President Zelensky to formally start the investigation aimed at prosecuting the alleged war crimes committed by Putin.

Thus, the TPI complied with the announcement made on February 28 to promote an investigation for the first time in an armed conflict in European territory.

A war crime is one that subjects civil society to arbitrary and indiscriminate human and material suffering without any military justification for it.

The court aspires to determine the individual criminal responsibility of the person who committed it or ordered it to be committed.

The investigation had been requested by 39 members of the court, including Spain, and on Thursday the office of the EU's High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, supported the prosecution of the "perpetrators" of the crimes, "as well as the political officials and the military leaders” responsible for them.

Numerous Western leaders have accused Putin of war crimes in recent days and now it will be the permanent court in charge of judging them that will collect the data for the investigation.

However this inhumane war in Ukraine ends, Putin will have a darker future because in numerous ICC member countries he will risk arrest.

Zelensky himself has asked his population to keep the videos and recordings of him to document war crimes and yesterday nearly 2,000 complaints for war crimes had already been opened in the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office, in accordance with the Statute of the court .

They affect some 70 Russian political and military positions.

000 complaints for war crimes in the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, according to the Statute of the court.

They affect some 70 Russian political and military positions.

000 complaints for war crimes in the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, according to the Statute of the court.

They affect some 70 Russian political and military positions.

No war has been broadcast live with the sharpness, drama and instantaneity of this one, and that may be the real stone that haunts Putin for the rest of his life.

The impunity of so many cases heard in a court that in 20 years has barely obtained nine convictions may be substantially reduced by the speed of the documentation process, by the enormous amount of evidence and by the flagrant violation of human rights that Putin has undertaken without fear of testimonies and in full contempt of international law.

This time, the International Criminal Court has the opportunity to judge directly and not a posteriori, nor with sentences that are too often symbolic, crimes that shake European civic and democratic conscience every day.

Source: elparis

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