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WAR Crimes-ICC Issues Arrest Warrants For Russian Officials Over Ukraine
ICC Issues Arrest Warrants For Russian Officials Over Alleged Ukraine War Crimes
Army chief and ex-minister of defence accused over missile attacks on civilian targets including power plants
The Guardian 26 JUN 2024
Sergei Shoigu, right, pictured with Valery Gerasimov in December last year.
The international criminal court (ICC) at The Hague has issued arrest warrants for Russia’s ex-minister of defence and current army chief of staff for alleged war crimes in Ukraine after a missile campaign targeting Ukrainian power plants and other civilian infrastructure during the full-scale invasion.
Ex-minister of defence Sergei Shoigu and the chief of the general staff of the Russian armed forces, Valery Gerasimov, are accused of the war crimes of directing attacks at civilian objects and of causing excessive incidental harm to civilians or damage to civilian objects. They are also accused of crimes against humanity.
The Hague issued warrants for their arrest, but they are unlikely to be able to serve them as the pair are in Russia, which is not a party to the ICC and has denounced the court. Ukraine is not a member of the ICC but has given the court jurisdiction to prosecute war crimes committed on its territory since 2022.
Shoigu was removed as the minister of defence last month but has remained a senior government official as the head of Russia’s security council.
The court has previously issued warrants for the arrest of Vladimir Putin and Russia’s human rights ombudsman, Maria Lvova-Belova, for their role in the forcible deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. A number of the children have been adopted by Russian officials or put up for adoption under false identities.
The Ukrainian president, Volodomyr Zelenskiy, said the ICC’s decision to issue the warrants against Shoigu and Gerasimov was “a clear indication that justice for Russian crimes against Ukrainians is inevitable”.
He wrote on Telegram: “Every criminal involved in the planning and execution of these strikes must know that justice will be served. And we do hope to see them behind bars.” He added that he looked forward to “more arrest warrants in order to deprive Russia of its sense of impunity”.
Announcing the warrants, the court wrote there “are reasonable grounds to believe that the two suspects bear responsibility for missile strikes carried out by the Russian armed forces against the Ukrainian electric infrastructure from at least 10 October 2022 until at least 9 March 2023.
During this timeframe, a large number of strikes against numerous electric power plants and substations were carried out by the Russian armed forces in multiple locations in Ukraine”.
The court said it had “reasonable grounds to believe that the suspects intentionally caused great suffering or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health, thus bearing criminal responsibility for the crime against humanity of other inhumane acts”.
Russia has argued that electrical infrastructure in Ukraine represents a legitimate military target. The strikes have led to rolling blackouts across Ukraine, and have threatened crucial supplies of heating to the population in winter when temperatures fall below freezing.
WAR CRIMES: US SUED For Arming Israel For Widespread Atrocities on Palestinians
US Violating LAW to Fund Israel Despite Human Rights Abuses, Lawsuit Says
Obey the Law: Palestinians Sue State Dept. Over Israeli Arms Transfers Despite Human Rights Abuses
Suit claims state department is deliberately bypassing the Leahy Law by failing to sanction Israeli units accused of widespread atrocities in Palestinian territories
The Guardian 19 DEC 2024
Israel accused of act of genocide over restriction of Gaza water supply..Human Rights Watch says Israeli forces have acted deliberately to cut availability of clean water
US State Department Made Loopholes For Israel Amid Gaza War.... Influenced by The HUGE Amount of Monetary Donations The US Receive From Israel
The state department is facing a new lawsuit brought by Palestinians and Palestinian Americans accusing the agency of deliberately circumventing a decades-old US human rights law to continue funding Israeli military units accused of widespread atrocities in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The lawsuit, which was filed on Tuesday, marks the first time that victims of alleged human rights abuses are challenging the state department?s failure to ever sanction an Israeli security unit under the Leahy Law, a 1990s-era law that prohibits US military assistance to forces credibly implicated in gross human rights violations.
The plaintiffs include Amal Gaza, a pseudonym for a mathematics teacher from Gaza who has lost 20 family members; Shawan Jabarin, the director of the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq, who endured six years of arbitrary detention in the West Bank; and Ahmed Moor, a Palestinian American with relatives in Gaza who have been repeatedly displaced by the ongoing Israeli offensive. (Moor has written opinion pieces for the Guardian.) Along with two other plaintiffs, they are demanding judicial intervention to force the US to comply with the law.
With the death toll in Gaza since last October reportedly approaching 45,000 and humanitarian aid to the territory severely restricted, the legal challenge represents an attempt to force the administration to implement a law that has been seen as effective in helping the US to stem human rights violations by foreign military units in central America, Colombia, Nepal, and other countries.
The Leahy Law was designed to prohibit foreign governments from providing US assistance to any security forces that the US identifies as being ineligible due to a gross violation of human rights. But, as one former state official told the Guardian earlier this year:
The rules were different for Israel, due to the HUGE amount of monetary donations the US receive from Israel...
The lawsuit was filed in Washington DC district court.
Also taking part in the suit is Said Assali, a Palestinian American who had six family members killed in airstrikes in Gaza since the bombardments and incursions from Israel began last year.
I?ve had ... immediate relatives, cousins and other family that have been murdered in Israeli airstrikes, Assali told the Guardian. As an American, this is a clear violation of our laws, and it is violations the state department is carrying out actively and aggressively ? and its using our tax dollars.
The complaint hones in on a litany of alleged violations committed by Israeli military units with US support, including torture, prolonged detention without charge, forced disappearance, and what the plaintiffs describe as actions amounting to genocide in Gaza. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcdftG1Q2ro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jMlLhdmC4Q
WAR CRIMES:Netanyahu Allowed to Holocaust Service DESPITE Arrest Warrant For GENOCIDE
Netanyahu Has an ICC Arrest Warrant For War Crimes-GENOCIDE. Polands Promise to Ignore It Would Be a Grave Mistake
Among Monarchs and Presidents, Focus of Auschwitz Anniversary is on 50 survivors
An audience including Britains King Charles III, King Felipe VI of Spain and King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, as well as Frances President, Emmanuel Macron, and the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, will hear their voices. Trump was NOT invited
AP 27 JAN 2025
PURE EVIL SATANYAHU
Allowing Israels indicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu safe passage to a Holocaust memorial service in Poland next Tuesday would make a mockery of Europes commitment to the International Criminal Court, according to Josep Borrell, the European Unions foreign affairs chief until last month.
Poland has promised Netanyahu safe passage to an Auschwitz memorial service.
Netanyahu is wanted by the ICC for war crimes-GENOCIDE, committed during Israels 16-month war on Gaza, including using starvation as a method of warfare deliberately attacking civilians murder and persecution. His former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant faces the same charges.
Yet Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk last week waived his countrys legal obligations as an ICC signatory to arrest Netanyahu, instead offering the Israeli leader unhindered travel to the 80th Auschwitz memorial service on 27 January
It would be a grave mistake for the Polish EU Presidency to welcome Netanyahu to an official Holocaust memorial ceremony, Borrell, who stood down as head of the European External Action Service last month, told The Intercept.
This would make a mockery of the EUs strong commitment to the International Criminal Court, which the EU27 unanimously reaffirmed in June 2023.
Without mentioning Poland by name, Sven Koopmans, the EUs Middle East peace envoy, told The Intercept that the ICC was supported by the entire EU including the institutions and the 27 member states and that includes all that comes with it.
It is unclear whether Netanyahu will attend the Auschwitz service, as he has in the past. Tusks offer has proved unpopular in Poland, and lawyers have warned of immediate and robust legal action in the Polish courts, if Netanyahu sets foot on Polish soil.
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Netanyahus Wife is Living Comfortably in Miami Looking For EXPENSIVE Real Estate
Locals in Miami are raising their eyebrows at their new neighbours, Sara Netanyahu and her son Nair
AP 27 JAN 2025
The wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been in South Florida for over 50 days and is believed to be living with her son Nair, who has been hiding out there the entire war.
Yair Netanyahu, 33, has been living in Miami since April 2023 and is protected by Shin Bet at an estimated annual cost of approximately $688,000.
Presumably, the cost has gone up now that his mother Sara has joined him (he has asked for more security due to his fear of assassination, despite publicly rebuking Shin Bet, the secret Service of Israel).
Spies said Sara has visited Mar-a-Lago, the winter White House several times and is now searching for a familial property to buy in the area.
While there are compelling reasons the family wants a foothold in Miami ? the warm weather, the proximity to U.S. President Donald Trump and more importantly, there is no war being waged in the South Florida metropolis, sources say Sara is there for another reason.
She doesn?t want to be indicted or arrested, which would likely happen if she goes back to Tel Aviv
WAR CRIMES: EX Philippine President FORCED Onto Plane After ICC Arrest WARRANT
Former Philippine President Duterte FORCED Onto Plane to The Hague After ICC Arrest WARRANT- Netanyahu NEXT, Then PUTIN?
A plane carrying the former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has left Manila after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity over his deadly war on drugs
BBC 12 MAR 2025
Rodrigo Duterte, Former Philippines President, After ICC Arrest WARRANT
He was taken into police custody shortly after his arrival at the capital's international airport from Hong Kong on Tuesday morning.
Duterte 79, contested his detention but within hours was on a chartered jet en route to The Hague in the Netherlands, where the ICC sits. Current President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said the country was meeting its legal obligations.
During Dutertes time in office, thousands of small-time drug dealers, users and others were killed without trial.
Marcos said his predecessor would face charges relating to what he described as Dutertes bloody war on drugs.
Interpol asked for help and we obliged, President Marcos told a press conference. This is what the international community expects of us.
Dutertes daughter Sara, who said she would accompany him to The Hague, is vice president and a political rival of Marcos. She has said the arrest amounts to persecution. Rodrigo Duterte has offered no apologies for his brutal anti-drugs crackdown, which saw more than 6,000 suspects killed when he was president from 2016 to 2022, and mayor of Davao city before that.
'If I committed a sin, prosecute me in Philippine courts, with Filipino judges, and I will allow myself to be jailed in my own nation, he said in a later video. In response to his arrest, a petition was launched on his behalf in the Supreme Court urging it not to comply with the request.
According to a statement from the courts spokesperson, the former president also called for a declaration that the Philippines withdrawal from the ICC in 2019 effectively terminated its jurisdiction over the country and its people.
The ICC says it still has authority in the Philippines over alleged crimes committed before the country withdrew as a member. - TAKE NOTE NETANYAHU, PUTIN & TRUMP
State media said more than 370 police had been deployed to the airport and to other key locations to ensure peace was maintained Dutertes arrest is the beginning of accountability for the mass killings that defined his brutal rule, said ICHRP chairman Peter Murphy.
The former leader had been in Hong Kong to campaign among the large Filipino diaspora there for the 12 May midterm elections, in which he had planned to run again for mayor of Davao.
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