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2023-03-21T10:40:47.334Z


Serious indications of personal responsibility for deporting children lead the TPI prosecutor to order their capture


The arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin, signed by the British prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, marks a momentous moment in the history of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.

The decision of the prestigious jurist specialized in the prosecution of war crimes and crimes against humanity can only have practical consequences if Vladimir Putin or Maria Lvova-Belova, the other person indicted as Kremlin Commissioner for Children's Rights, move to one of the 123 signatory states of the Rome Statute for the creation of the ICC or if a political change occurs in Moscow that leads to the arrest and delivery of the current president by the new authorities, as has already happened with Slobodan Milosevic.

The arrest warrant is based on serious indications of personal responsibility of both defendants in war crimes, including deportations, transfers and illegal confinement of the population and the taking of hostages, according to the Statute of the court, and in the open violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention on the protection of civilians in times of war and, specifically, its article 50 dedicated entirely to the protection of the child population.

Putin has violated numerous international treaties and agreements, and especially the United Nations Charter, which categorically prohibits war and admits only the right that Ukraine is exercising to defense.

This crime by no means exhausts the repertoire for which he could be charged, which includes crimes against humanity and also genocide,

Hence, the prosecutor Khan has chosen to focus on the deportations of children, transferred from Ukrainian institutions or collected after the massacres of civilians, which the Kiev authorities raise to more than 16,000 cases, to impute the president of Russia and the appointed commissioner especially for systematic kidnapping and its Russification in Russian families or institutions.

This is the most vulnerable population and their case, which evokes the adoptions of children of those murdered and disappeared by the military of the Argentine Junta, is the easiest to explain due to the obvious intention of uprooting them from their environment and destroying their identity.

This type of action is also typified by the Rome Statute as genocide,

The mere fact of issuing the arrest warrant is a message of universal reach about the role of the Court, which cannot attend unperturbed to the commission of such serious crimes due to the mere fact that the person who commits them is the head of state of a nuclear power with veto power in the United Nations Security Council.

It is also a warning for future actions by Russia and any other despot.

In view of how it has been received internationally, it even constitutes an incentive and a form of pressure on powers like the United States, which initially signed the Rome Statute with Bill Clinton in 2000, but later with George W. Bush withdrew the signature and discarded its ratification.

Source: elparis

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