The former Chief Prosecutor of U.N.'s Nations War Crimes Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Carla Del Ponte, has called for an International Arrest Warrant to be issued for Russian President Vladimir Putin. She said there were clear War Crimes being committed in Ukraine.

“Putin is a war criminal,” Carla Del Ponte told the Swiss Newspaper Le Temps, in an interview published Saturday.

She said she was particularly Shocked by the use of Mass Graves in Russia’s War on Ukraine, which recalls the Worst of the Wars in the former Yugoslavia.

“I hoped never to see mass graves again,” she said. “These dead people have loved ones who don’t even know what’s become of them. That is unacceptable.”

Other War Crimes she identified in Ukraine included: Attacks on Civilians, the Destruction of Civilian Buildings, even the Demolishing of entire Villages, and with the withdrawal the placing of land mines, that if not Detonated for a set time, automatic Explodes.

She said the Investigation in Ukraine, would be easier than that in Yugoslavia, because the Ukraine had requested an International Probe.

The current International Criminal Court (ICC), Chief Prosecutor, Karim Khan, visited Ukraine last month.

If the ICC finds Proof of War Crimes, she said, “you must go up the chain of command until you reach those who took the decisions.”

She said it would be possible to bring even Putin to account.

“You mustn’t let go, continue to investigation. When the investigation into Slobodan Milosevic began, he was still president of Serbia. Who would have thought then that he would one day be judged? Nobody,” she sad.

Del Ponte added that Investigations should be carried out into possible War Crimes committed by both sides, pointing also to Reports about the alleged Torture of some Russian Prisoners of War by Ukrainian Forces.










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