As the ICC issues an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin, how likely is it that he will ever appear in a courtroom?
"And as long as you have collected evidence, produced dossiers on responsible individuals, you can stand ready until a court somewhere around the world is able to suddenly assert jurisdiction, and then the prosecutors will move."ICC issues arrest warrant for PutinMs Van Schaack leads the US Office of Global Criminal Justice. Her job is to advise the Secretary of State and other leadership around the US on issues of justice and accountability.
"We've now seen war crimes being committed on a systemic basis across all areas where Russia's troops are deployed; terrible stories, credible, corroborated by a UN Commission of Inquiry and others, of civilians being deliberately targeted of disproportionate force being used, civilians being killed in Russian custody, POWs being killed, and then efforts to cover up these crimes…" she told me.
"There's also the attacks on a theatre, on a train station of people fleeing the conflict. You have attacks on ordinary convoys of civilians trying to get out; people just going to work, carrying grocery bags with their groceries strewn around the dead body…."She continued:"These images do stick in one's head.
"So go up the chain of command - who ordered these offences? Who allowed them to be committed? Who has failed to prosecute and investigate those deemed most responsible? Who has failed to properly supervise their subordinates? That's now the challenge - that linkage evidence."
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