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Thursday, April 07, 2022

Vladimir Putin is a wanted War Criminal: ICC trials are looming


What more evidence is needed to charge Putin with war crimes?
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/2022-04-06/charge-putin-with-war-crimes

Echo opinion letter published in the Los Angeles Times: Vladimir Putin will never recover from the dangerous international isolation he is suffering because of his unprovoked invasion of the Ukraine. 

The International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Netherlands, with about 900 staffers, is still investigating whether Russian President Vladimir Putin and his generals may have committed war crimes in Ukraine. (“Biden calls for war-crimes trial of Putin after mass graves found around Ukraine capital,” April 4)
Apparently, invading an independent nation on three occasions; bombing and indiscriminately shelling civilian targets for weeks, thereby killing many civilians, including children; having tanks fire on civilians; cutting off food, water, electricity and heat from cities and starving people; obstructing by force those seeking to flee; mining densely populated areas; and kidnapping Ukrainians to Russia to be used as bargaining hostages are not yet quite yet enough to result in arrest warrants being issued.

Perhaps the ICC should issue a list of what is yet missing for it to proceed? 
Les Weinstein, in Los Angeles

The writer is an attorney and former trial counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice in international cases.

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