Re:BND Intercepts Radio Traffic Discussing the Murder of Civ...
by trhway on Sunday April 10, 2022 @05:13PM
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POW status doesn't shield from prosecution for war crimes and crimes against humanity. So, imagine what you come up upon enemy soldiers who have committed a war crime. Even if these soldiers are otherwise eligible for POW status, you aren't going to give them it, and instead you're going to arrest and put these soldiers into the war crimes prosecution/punishment process.
As genocide and ethnic cleansing are the officially declared major goals of the war, anybody participating in any way on Russian side is immediately guilty, just by mere fact of participation in the war, of those crimes. As a result any Russian soldier is subject to criminal prosecution the moment they captured.
Some situations seem to be even more straightforward:
In the video the Ukrainians say "marauders" about those Russians, and the Russian armored carrier in the video has various civilian property loaded on it (and the marauding by Russians is very widespread). Officially marauding in Ukraine right now is a war crime punishable by prison, while on practice in various regions the regional administration has declared it as punishable by shooting on the spot.
As genocide and ethnic cleansing are the officially declared major goals of the war, anybody participating in any way on Russian side is immediately guilty, just by mere fact of participation in the war, of those crimes. As a result any Russian soldier is subject to criminal prosecution the moment they captured.
Some situations seem to be even more straightforward:
>[2] https://rumble.com/v104l5t-ukrainians-kill-captured-russian-...
In the video the Ukrainians say "marauders" about those Russians, and the Russian armored carrier in the video has various civilian property loaded on it (and the marauding by Russians is very widespread). Officially marauding in Ukraine right now is a war crime punishable by prison, while on practice in various regions the regional administration has declared it as punishable by shooting on the spot.