Putin Should Be Tried For War Crimes

[Stargazer]

Will it happen?

[jim360]

Hopefully. But a lot of things have to go right first.

[pastafreak]

You do know this is Chatterbank?

[Stargazer]

Where should I have posted it?

[ducksie]

Stargazer, News, current affairs

[davebro]

won't happen imv.

[youngmafbog]

Its difficult when we didnt prosecute Blair/Bush.

[THECORBYLOON]

How about News? War crimes are hardly suitable for, "the home of natter and nonsense" are they? 

[youngmafbog]

I'm sure the Ed can move it.

[royfromaus]

It's an opinion. Not news.

[Stargazer]

Sorry everyone who complained. I did not realise that ChatterBank was meant to be for frivolous chatter only. I will be more careful next time.

[dannyk13]

I doubt that you would get a conviction on what he is responsible for at the moment.
//War crimes. Violations of the laws or customs of war, including: atrocities or offences against persons or property, constituting violations of the laws or customs of war//

[Sqad]

You have to be on the losing side before you are tried for war crimes ;-)

[Peter Pedant]

oh yes well done S
The victors write the histories.... Goebbels

( and I am assured thousands of others)

[Peter Pedant]

keep on posting star gazer and ignore

I posted a short obit on Luc Montagnier ( dead white scientist) and oh god the squawking, I cd hear from my bedroom window - deffo wrong place and wasnt it Luke? ( no)

[naomi24]

Very good, sqad. :o)

[Peter Pedant]

It took me a few minutes to get my head together on this
PINOCHET was involved - not as war crimes but human rights violation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment_and_arrest_of_Augusto_Pinochet

You will note they got two magistrates to issue warrants and nil so far for Putin

There was a long fight over this - as you can read. Scarred by, no less the House of Lords case had to be pleaded again ( = successful appeal that one of the judges was biassed - wow!).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment_and_arrest_of_Augusto_Pinochet

Trump by the way is very keen to insist he is immune from suit of any kind for anything he did as president

The governor of Gaza was warned if he landed in Brussels he would be arrested for human rights abuses - and he didnt go.

and that is all I have

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Bow_Street_Metropolitan_Stipendiary_Magistrate,_ex_parte_Pinochet

this is the one where Lord Foo-foo is as bent as a corkscrew or as the official report has it: "one of the Law Lords had links to one of the intervenors in the case, Amnesty International, thereby creating an appearance of bias"

so long story short - maybe / possibly

[Stickybottle]

Even if he lost how would they get him to The Hague for trial ?
The odds of the next Russian leader handing him over are zero
As much as I would like to see it sadly it will never happen

[ynnafymmi]

Wheres Lee Harvey Oswalds Russian brother when we need him most?

[Peter Pedant]

Oh whilst I am about it
Goering's war crimes trial ( the one where the american lawyer - ex supreme ct judge - screws it up) - was marked by the plea: " you cant screw me for indiscriminate bombing of civilian populations because the Allies did it themselves"

and look what I found a few days ago: The White Rabbit: played by Kenneth More - Frederick Yeo Thomas, french resister, appears at Nuremberg at the trial of skorzeny ( the one what rescued Musso inter alia). YT says the charge of dressing in the enemies uniforms and er shooting them would have to be abandoned, as the Americans did it as well.


Le dernier jour du procès du commando allemand Otto Skorzeny, le 9 septembre 1947, son témoignage contribue à l'abandon d'un chef d'accusation, celui de port d'uniforme ennemi, et finalement à l'acquittement de Skorzeny.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Yeo-Thomas

My siblings met Yeo Thomas in Paris but I was too young 1957

Legal process may not be the answer

[Peter Pedant]

// how would they get him to The Hague for trial ?//

they cant travel - see above - wasnt there a plan to do what to Mugabe? I cd be wrong, I dont care, this is AB. Only prob was that he was head of state and not post - at the time