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The Russian president is being pursued for the slaughter in Ukraine but getting him to The Hague will not be easy.

Joe Biden has finally called Vladimir Putin a "war criminal", raising the prospect of the Russian leader one day being prosecuted in an international court and jailed over his invasion of Ukraine.
A global effort is already underway to pursue Mr Putin legally but the process will be complex, and ultimately would depend on him losing power and having to leave Russia, allowing him to be arrested.
David Crane, former chief prosecutor for the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, which tried former Liberian President Charles Taylor, said: "Clearly, Putin is a war criminal. But the president is speaking politically on this. We're at the beginning of the beginning."
However, he said there could be charges within a year.
Since the first international tribunals were set up in Nuremberg and Tokyo after the Second World War, leaders have been prosecuted for actions in countries including Bosnia, Cambodia and Rwanda.
Slobodan Milosevic was put on trial for crimes against humanity by a UN tribunal in The Hague, dying in his cell before the verdict in 2000.
Radovan Karadzic, his Bosnian Serb ally, and the Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, were prosecuted successfully and sentenced to life.
For Mr Putin the likeliest route for prosecution would appear to be the International Criminal Court at The Hague, which prosecutes crimes committed after 2002.
Established by the Rome Statute the ICC investigates allegations of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of aggression.
It is the world’s first permanent international criminal court and prosecutes individual officials.
An ICC investigation has already been opened into the war in Ukraine and individual nations are gathering evidence to contribute to it.
That includes the US where the State Department is compiling details of incidents including the Russian strike on a maternity hospital in Mariupol, the seizure of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, and cluster-bombings of civilian targets.

SOURCE: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/03/17/will-vladimir-putin-end-jail-war-criminal/

Highly unlikely....he might get overthrowned..

callmemakaveli:
The Russian president is being pursued for the slaughter in Ukraine but getting him to The Hague will not be easy.



SOURCE: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/03/17/will-vladimir-putin-end-jail-war-criminal/

Mukin2
Lalasticlala

Very useless talk.
So because a sleepy president calls another President a war criminal, then Putin should end up at the Hague.

You think Putin is from Africa, a weakling continent?

He won't even be tried

But he just made himself an outcast

sapientia:
He won't even be tried

But he just made himself an outcast

Exactly...

callmemakaveli:
The Russian president is being pursued for the slaughter in Ukraine but getting him to The Hague will not be easy.



SOURCE: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/03/17/will-vladimir-putin-end-jail-war-criminal/

ICC is for Africa and poor countries

Icc is for weak countries

You guys should be asking if zelensky and his cabinet will survive?

The way this war is going hmmmm!

Ukraine will be a forgotten story

Never!

Obama is a war criminal, Blinken is a war criminal, w. Bush is a war criminal, hilarious Clinton is a war criminal. The list is endless.
The west always cry foul when the narrative doesn't suite them

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Officialgarri:
Very useless talk.
So because a sleepy president calls another President a war criminal, then Putin should end up at the Hague.

You think Putin is from Africa, a weakling continent?

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Will Bush, Obama, Bill Clinton and the current US President be charged for war crimes in the Middle East, Asia and Africa?

When U answer that then we can talk about Putin that is doing nothing but demilitarizing and denazifying Ukraine, with as minimal civilian casualty as even there army is trying so had to cause. Thank you.