The Road Not (Yet) Taken: A Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. | Andrew Forde, Opinio Juris https://opiniojuris.org/2025/04/16/the-road-not-yet-taken-a-special-tribunal-for-the-crime-of-aggression-against-ukraine/ #CrimeOfAggression #Russia #Ukraine #CouncilOfEurope
#CrimeOfAggression
“In May, the #CouncilOfEurope & #Ukraine formally endorsed the creation of a special tribunal for the #CrimeOfAggression…. This development marks a major milestone in Ukraine’s fight for accountability in the wake of #Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022 & has the support of at least 37 other countries… A core group of…experts has…finalised the statutory documents…& Ukraine has submitted them to the COE for formal adoption.” | International Bar Association https://www.ibanet.org/Endorsement-for-special-tribunal-a-major-milestone-in-Ukraines-fight-for-accountability
BREAKING: Today, a group of European ministers traveled to Lviv to reaffirm their strong support for a Special International Tribunal for the #CrimeOfAggression against #Ukraine —urging other states and int'l orgs to actively back justice for this leadership crime.
mfa.gov.ua/en/news/lviv...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of...
US 2025: oligarchy, greed, extreme arrogance, and Trump’s threats of #CrimeOfAggression -a serious violation of international law.
Tech moguls invested in #Greenland mining also gave Trump campaign $243m: report 👇
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Tech moguls invested in Greenl...
"[...]We also draw attention to the fact that the acquisition of territory by using force cannot be recognized as lawful[...]"
https://legal.social/@voelkerrechtsblog/114351778342518114
#CrimeOfAggression #Art8bisRomeStatute
#IntLaw
Ukraine
#russia #ruZZia
The prospects of a special tribunal for the #CrimeOfAggression of the #RussianInvasionOfUkraine look good for May 2025 [1][2][3].
The prospects of a special tribunal (with full governmental institutional support) for the #CrimeOfAggression of the #USInvasionOfIraq are waiting for the govts of e.g. IQ, BR, IN, ZA, NG, KE, CL to organise and commit resources. BushJr will be 90 in 2036: still time to prosecute!
@fennix threatening to do so is already the #CrimeOfAggression!
Quick reminder, dass bereits Planung und Vorbereitung den Straftatbestand des Verbrechens der Aggression erfüllen können (#Art8bisRomStatut - Absatz 1):
> "Im Sinne dieses Statuts bedeutet «Verbrechen der Aggression» die Planung, Vorbereitung, Einleitung oder Ausführung einer Angriffshandlung, die ihrer Art, ihrer Schwere und ihrem Umfang nach eine offenkundige Verletzung der Charta der Vereinten Nationen vom 26. Juni 1945 darstellt, durch eine Person, die tatsächlich in der Lage ist, das politische oder militärische Handeln eines Staates zu kontrollieren oder zu lenken."
Q:https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/2002/586/de
#VerbrechenDerAggression #CrimeOfAggression
#Art8bisRomeStatute
#Völkerrecht #Völkerstrafrecht #InternationalLaw
@smaurizi A #Manicheist approach to defending Europe against the current RU #CrimeOfAggression and likely future RU crimes of aggression is more likely to split than unite pro-human-rights groups+individuals (cf [1][2]).
Calling for e.g. 1% of EU GDP to be invested in concrete, evidence-based #peace tools [3] (not just abstract postmodernist blabla) *would* be able to unite many people+groups.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_war_of_1971
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian%E2%80%93Vietnamese_War#Invasion_of_Kampuchea
@w7voa since the #USA is a #VetoPower, it'll get away with everything, including the #CrimeOfAggression!
#ICC += 1; /* as of today 1 Jan 2025 */
However, #Ukraine will only be forbidden from the #CrimeOfAggression starting from 25 October 2025.
Rogue states maintain their "right" to carry out #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Genocide and the crime of agresssion .
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_parties_to_the_Rome_Statute
@europesays Even the "#StatusQuoAnteBellum" (1991-2012) would've been a #victory for #Russia by #LackOfAccountability & #LackOfConsequences.
- Since #WhatYouAllowIsWhatWillContinue applies espechally to #politics...
#RUpol #UApol #Russia #Ukraine #Europe #CrimeOfAggression #BudapestMemorandum
@knightsbridge I mean I know at least 3 cases of #LGBTQIA that fled #Russia for #Germany that I can name - one person I've been on a first-name basis - so it's not as if this is new.
- They all fled before #Putin started his #CrimeOfAggression against #Ukraine, so the numbers would've only gone up as more and more heterocisbinary dudes get #conscripted into the #MeatGrinder...
I mean, everyone who can got themselves a #passport before that war started and they all do the #Georgia - #Serbia move once a year like #NFKRZ aka. Roman...
Good analysis esp. considering both Ukranian and ruZZian (surficial) motives. What I miss are the following points:
1. The only negotiations (ger.: Verhandlungen), that will end this war and make future ones more unlikely, are court hearings (ger.: Gerichtsverhandlungen) in #TheHague. It's basically both, the conjunctive *and* the conditional meaning of #NoJusticeNoPeace. Neither will there be peace, as long as the felon of the #CrimeOfAggression is not sentenced, neither will there be #peace under a broken law resp. under an accepted law breach. As the members of the International Law Association Committee have put it: "[...]Accordingly, states must cooperate to bring this aggression to an end through lawful means; they must not recognize as lawful any situation it creates; nor may they render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation.[...]" (S: https://www.justsecurity.org/80454/statement-by-members-of-the-international-law-association-committee-on-the-use-of-force/)
Bitte immer mitbedenken, was ein Land-gegen-Frieden-Deal im Hinblick zukünftige Konflikte bedeuten/implizieren würde. Danke.
6/6
Die #Ukraine hat es verstanden; Moldau ,Tschechien ,Polen, Skandinavien und das Baltikum auch. Wann verstehen wir es? Wann verstehen wir endlich #putin |s Motive und wann verstehen wir endlich endlich, was #nojusticenopeace bedeutet? Wann, verdammt?
#Völkerrecht #VerbrechenderAggression #crimeofaggression #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine #ruleoflaw #rechtkommt #WirNennenIhnDenRussischenKrieg
#FCKputin #Raschismus #ruscism
@iryna
Markus #Pindur 's #DLF -comment on the #MSC from feb 18th 2024: "[...] #Nawalny 's death should once again open everyone's eyes to the nature of the russian regime: imperialistic outwardly, repressive inwardly, brutal in all directions. There will be no peace with putin. The Ukranians are aware of this. The silence above the tombs of #Butcha and #Irpin remind them of what peace under #putin looks like.[...]"
Client Info
Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.04
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst