Many accomplices. Why Putin should not be made key accused at the tribunal-explains the international lawyer
- I will start with the latest news: Alexei Reznikov, Minister of Defense of Ukraine, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, initiated the appeal to the countries - participants of the contact group on defense of Ukraine (the so -called Ramstein group), request to delegate experts from military justice, which could assist with the collection of evidence and work on specific cases of Russian military crimes in Ukraine.
Tell me how it can look like in practice? Perhaps, for example, can we recall any cases of history for comparison? Video Day is the simplest example is a combined investigative group that was formed to investigate the 2014 Boeing Broading Events, which included representatives of investigative bodies of different countries that were interested (Australia, Malaysia, the Netherlands, etc. ).
The issue of interstate, international cooperation in the measurement of countering international crimes is not new. And here you do not need to invent special mechanisms, there will be enough bilateral cooperation agreement. After all, those international crimes that the Russian Federation and its mercenaries are committed in the territory of Ukraine are covered by universal jurisdiction.
Therefore, in order, to be relatively speaking, Latvian, Danish or French investigators carry out appropriate actions, in particular on investigation, there is no international law in investigation. The question is different: where the results of these investigations will go. It can be the National Court of Ukraine, it can be an international criminal court that has started the proceedings since February.
- How would you generally evaluate these processes that are currently underway to investigate crimes? From the fact that I had to read and listen, it is still a rarity when the war is still ongoing, and the courts over criminals are already going and even sentenced. - This is not so rare.
Remember the Second World War when Nazi criminals who were guilty of crimes against the civilians received their sentences to Nuremberg, within the framework of national court proceedings of those countries that captured them during the fighting. It is not a know-how in human history. Sometimes wars last for a very long time, conflicts occur in latent phases, as a Korean war, this does not mean that some North Korean criminals should be delayed for 50 years.