Here's a very broad look at war crimes and the international justice movement.
, which compiled information about the International Criminal Court.The International Criminal Court has specific definitions for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression. Read about them in this guideSpecifically, targeting civilian populations, violating the Geneva Conventions, targeting specific groups of people and more could be potential Russian war crimes.
Russia, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, has veto power over council actions. It was requests by 39 national governments, most of them European, that sparked the current investigation. That perception of slow and ineffective justice will test the system of international law, Khan told CNN's Anderson Cooper last year.Why would a Ukraine prosecution be different?
All of this stems from the precedent of the Nuremberg trials to bring Nazis to justice after World War II and held by the Allies, including the US, the Soviet Union, France and Germany.Why aren't the US and Russia ICC members?
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