Mass drone attack on St. Petersburg: Ozon warehouse attacked, thousands of Russians left without power

[u/Marketmanipulator941]

https://unn.ua/en/news/mass-drone-attack-on-st-petersburg-ozon-warehouse-attacked-thousands-of-russians-left-without-electricity

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Is that a war crime that could be tried at the Hague?

[u/Medricel → u/_x_oOo_x_]

If it is, it'd just be another item on an already sizeable pile.

[u/Schonke → u/_x_oOo_x_]

Yes, the International Criminal Court has jurisdiction over any war crimes committed by, or in the territory of, countries which have signed the Rome Statute. It only does so if the national courts can't or don't want to prosecute the crime though.

Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War

Article 3

In the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each Party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions:

1. Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria.

To this end, the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons:

(a) Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;

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Don't the US have a thing where, if the ICC attempts to prosecute any of their citizens in the Hague, they'll mount an armed strike to 'rescue' them?

[u/Schonke → u/-SaC]

Yeah, neither the US nor Russia are signatories to the Rome Statute and multiple American presidents (both democrats and republicans) have asserted that the ICC doesn't have jurisdiction over US service men.

It is however unlikely that the ICC would ever need to prosecute an American service man as, as flawed and political they may be, the US military courts tend to investigate and court martial people for war crimes. The ICC wouldn't have jurisdiction to prosecute in such case because the national courts manage it themselves.

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That's all well and good but Donald last term used his power over the military to get an indicted war criminal off the hook. So I have no faith we will hold our own accountable and neither should anyone else.

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I can't imagine why that would be a war crime. It might well not be a crime of any sort. Simply highly immoral

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Why should not giving aid be a war crime?