Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
The Pentagon is helping to shield Russia from International Criminal Court accountability for its atrocities in Ukraine , fearing such a reckoning could set a precedent allowing the tribunal to prosecute U.S. war crimes, a report published Wednesday revealed. According to The New York Times, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III and other Pentagon brass are blocking the Biden administration from sharing evidence of Russia n war crimes in Ukraine gathered by U.S.
being subjected to the tribunal's authority. As Savage noted: Lawmakers enacted two laws aimed at increasing the chances that Russians would be held accountable for war crimes in Ukraine. One was a stand-alone bill expanding the jurisdiction of American prosecutors to charge foreigners for war crimes committed abroad. The other, a provision about the International Criminal Court embedded in the large appropriations bill Congress passed in late December, received little attention at the time.
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