THE crimes are piling up. Investigators and journalists have found what appears to be evidence of the deliberate killing of civilians in Bucha, a town on the outskirts of Kyiv, in Ukraine, and other nearby areas.
Ukrainian forces say they have found mass graves and there is evidence of civilians having been shot dead after their feet and hands were bound. There was also the bombing of a maternity hospital. The word children” was written in giant letters outside the building. In addition, there have been Russian strikes on a theatre in Mariupol which led to mass deaths. The latest is the bombing of a train station where hundreds of men, women and children were gathered to leave for safer areas.
As Russian atrocities against Ukraine build, so do the calls to bring the perpetrators to justice. US President Joe Biden and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson have both said Russian President Vladimir Putin should be tried for war crimes. “This can be an actual, have a war crimes trial, Biden said after horrific images of the killings in Bucha appeared online. Johnson said much the same after he paid a visit to Kyiv and toured the city with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In March, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Russia had destroyed apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, critical infrastructure, civilian vehicles, shopping centres, and ambulances”-actions that the US said amounted to war crimes.
Investigators from the International Criminal Court (ICC) are already working in Ukraine to gather and verify evidence, and a number of nations have already referred the case to the global court, signalling a strong push to bring such crimes to trial. Ukraine has also set up a team to gather evidence.
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