The Hague, Netherlands. Ipinahayag ng International Criminal Court (ICC) kahapon na nagpalabas sila ng arrest warrant laban kay Russian President Vladimir Putin hinggil sa insidente ng “unlawful deportation” ng Ukrainian children.
Sinabi ng Hague-based ICC na nag-isyu rin ito ng warrant laban kay Maria Lvova-Belova, presidential commissioner for children’s rights ng Russia.
Sinabi ng Moscow nitong Biyernes na “walang kahulugan” ang desisyon ng ICC.
“The decisions of the International Criminal Court have no meaning for our country, including from a legal point of view,” ayon kay Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
“Possible ‘recipes’ for arrest coming from the international court will be legally void as far as we are concerned,” dagdag niya.
Hindi miyembro ng ICC ang Russia.
“Today, pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court issued warrants of arrest for two individuals in the context of the situation in Ukraine: Mr Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Ms Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova,” pahayag ng ICC.
Si Putin “is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.”
Sinabi ng ICC na may petsang February 24, 2022 ang mga krimen, nang sakupin ng Russia ang Ukraine.
“There are reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the aforementioned crimes,” ayon dito.
Responsable umano si Putin sa “failure to exercise control properly over civilian and military subordinates who committed the acts, or allowed for their commission.”
Diumano ay hindi isinasapubliko ang arrest warrants upang protektahan ang mga biktima at mga saksi, ayon dito.
Ang ICC ang korte na tumutugis sa mga bansa na hindi dumidinig ng war crimes at crimes against humanity.
Inilunsad ni ICC prosecutor Karim Khan ang imbestigasyon sa pinaniniwalaang war crimes at crimes against humanity sa Ukraine ilang araw matapos ang pag-atake ng Russia.
Gary P Hernal started college at UP Diliman and received his BA in Economics from San Sebastian College, Manila, and Masters in Information Systems Management from Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University in Oak Brook, IL. He has 25 years of copy editing and management experience at Thomson West, a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters.
