Court issued warrant for Putin and his children’s commissioner over forcible transfer of Ukrainian children
The prosecutor for the international criminal court has said the world needs to “have the stamina” to enforce international law by trying those accused of war crimes in Ukraine, four days after the court took action againstKarim Khan also challenged the Kremlin to allow Ukrainian children abducted to Russia to return home, after his courtand Russia’s children’s commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, on the grounds that they had overseen the forcible transfer of thousands of children.
Speaking in London, Khan said it was a sombre moment that for the first time the leader of a country that was a permanent member of the UN security council was being charged with war crimes. “This moment of reawakening has some promise within it,” he said. “That finally we can vindicate the suffering of the Holocaust, of the Balkans, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Cambodia that we will have a world for our children of ‘never again’.”on Monday, the first national leader to shake Putin’s hand since the warrant was issued, with Beijing saying the warrant reflected double standards on the ICC’s behalf.
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