A New Nuremberg-Style Tribunal Awaits Putin’s Arrest, Extradition
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Commanders ordering Russia’s missile blitzkrieg on Ukraine, and issuing threats to blast Western Allies with nuclear ICBMs, might one day be tried in the International Criminal Court or the new Nuremberg-style Special Tribunal. (Photo by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA / AFP) (Photo by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Russia’s repeated threats of war against any state that moves to arrest Vladimir Putin for war crimes, under a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court, violate the United Nations Charter, and its escalating aggression could endanger the entire world order, says a prominent Irish legal scholar on international law. So far Kremlin commissars have threatened to wage war against two nations—Germany and South Africa—to stave off Putin’s detention, and have even provocatively warned that the headquarters of the ICC, in the Dutch city The Hague, could be blasted by Moscow’s missiles. These threats run “contrary to international law, specifically the prohibition of the threat or use of force under United Nations Charter Article 2,” says Dr. Andrew Forde, assistant professor of European Human Rights Law at Dublin City University in Ireland. Article 2, Dr. Forde tells me in an interview, is the central pillar of the UN structure, and states: “All [UN] Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.” The UN was designed by the Allies in the twilight times of World War II, and during the dawn of the post-war era, “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind,” the organization’s co-founders state in the Charter’s preamble. These “Peoples of the United Nations” added they aimed “to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security,” and to ensure…
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