We had to basically wait close to half a century to have the third.ĪMOS: In the 1990s, two more tribunals, the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, then the first permanent tribunal, the International Criminal Court - it opened in 2002 - controversial ever since, says Douglas.ĭOUGLAS: The ICC has some pretty dramatic limitations.
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The companion trial in Tokyo was the second. This is now at least an attempt to reckon with the strong.ĪMOS: The reckoning Ukraine's leaders want is something like the Nuremberg Tribunal in 1945, where legal concepts created then are still in use today - crimes against humanity, genocide and the aim to make war itself illegal, to hold leaders accountable for the crime of aggression, says Douglas.ĭOUGLAS: It's worth remembering that the Nuremberg Tribunal - that was the very first international criminal tribunal in human history. LAWRENCE DOUGLAS: There had been many critics of international criminal law saying like, well, it only basically becomes a tool of reckoning with the weak. Security Council - that is a precedent, says Lawrence Douglas, a law professor at Amherst College in Massachusetts. A nuclear power with a permanent seat on the U.N. For one thing, 18 countries launched war crimes investigations across Ukraine to document Russia's atrocities. But the response to the invasion may change the odds. This will need time, a lot of time, and I'm not sure if this will happen, really.ĪMOS: To be frank, he's correct. He knows that it is a big ask to get the international community to back a war crimes tribunal. Let's hope that the top criminals will be sentenced at the international level.ĪMOS: Top officials can only be tried at the international level, he explains. Andrei Sheptytskyi, a political science professor in Ukraine before the war, stops to talk as he hands out coffee and cookies.ĪNDREI SHEPTYTSKYI: So of course, I would like to see Putin being judged for his crimes. When the talk turns to war crimes, they say they want accountability from higher up the chain of command all the way to Moscow. They sing familiar hymns, then gather in the church's tranquil backyard after the service to share the latest war stories from home. Their children wear blue and yellow hair ribbons and woven wristbands. NPR's Deborah Amos has this report.ĭEBORAH AMOS, BYLINE: Ukrainian exiles come to church in downtown Warsaw draped in the Ukrainian flag. Now calls are growing to set up an international tribunal to prosecute top Russian officials. Children under 12 are free.The Russian invasion of Ukraine has raised an old question - is aggressive war illegal? The crime was first introduced more than half a century ago after the Second World War at the Nuremberg Tribunal. Day passes are $10 and can be purchased in advance online or at festival ticket booths offered by Redstone Federal Credit Union.
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