In addition, there are still acts related to war crimes, of which there are almost 2 thousand.
5,000 cases are currently being investigated in Ukraine Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said this during a briefing in Bucha, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports.
“We must understand that even in such a brutal situation military crimes are the first link of gradation. Then there are crimes against humanity, genocide. We are investigating all these crimes in order to bring to justice all those who started this war in order to destroy Ukrainians, “she said.
, at the same time there are still acts related to war crimes, of which there are almost 2 thousand.
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All criminal proceedings differ in their volume and number of episodes.
Recall, the military a crime in international law is a deliberate gross violation of the laws or customs of war. The widest list of them is in the Statute of the International Criminal Court (“Rome Statute”), which, among other things, states:
- premeditated murder and torture
- deliberate targeted attack on civilians or individual civilians not directly involved in hostilities
- deliberate attack on civilian objects, ie objects that are not for military purposes
- attack on unprotected and non-military purposes, cities, villages, their shelling by any means
- illegal, senseless and significant destruction or misappropriation of property not caused by military necessity
- illegal restriction of liberty
- hostage-taking
- destruction or seizure of enemy property
- robbery of a city or town even if it is seized by assault
- rape
- intentional strikes on buildings, materials, medical facilities
The other day we reported , that in connection with the facts of atrocities of the Russian occupiers which opened in the liberated Bucha, the Ukrainian party declares need of the special mechanism of investigation. Apparently, this is about creating an international hybrid tribunal.
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