{"id":8393,"date":"2022-03-06T18:41:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T13:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polscienceweb.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=8393"},"modified":"2022-03-06T18:41:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T13:11:45","slug":"international-criminal-court-icc-has-announced-to-open-an-investigation-into-possible-crimes-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/polscienceweb.com\/index.php\/portfolio\/international-criminal-court-icc-has-announced-to-open-an-investigation-into-possible-crimes-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"International Criminal Court (ICC) has announced to open an investigation into possible crimes in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong><br>About War Crimes<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2022-03-06T18:41:33+05:30\">6th March 2022<\/time><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:27px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-verse\" style=\"font-size: 18.5px; text-align: justify;\">\n<summary class=\"wo-block-verse\" style=\"font-size: 18.5px; text-align: center;\">Read more<br><br><\/summary>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-verse\" style=\"font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\"\n>War crimes are a serious<strong>&nbsp;violation of humanitarian laws during a conflict<\/strong>&nbsp;(derived from the 1949 Geneva Conventions). Examples: Taking of hostages, willful killings, forcing children to fight, torture or inhuman treatment of prisoners of war, etc.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-verse\" style=\"font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\"\n><br>What is the distinction between war crimes and crimes against humanity? Genocide and crimes against humanity can occur in peacetime or during a military&#8217;s unilateral aggression against a group of unarmed people; war crimes must occur in the context of armed conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-verse\" style=\"font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\"\n>International humanitarian law lays down three principles to decide whether an individual or a military has committed a war crime:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-verse\" style=\"font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\"\n><li><strong>Proportionality<\/strong>: Prevents armies from retaliating violently in response to an attack.<\/li><li><strong>Precaution<\/strong>: Requires parties to avoid or minimize the harm to the civilian population.<\/li><li><strong>Distinction<\/strong>: To distinguish between civilian and hostile people and objects.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:17px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Has Russia committed war crimes in Ukraine?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-verse\" style=\"font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\"\n>Russian missiles rained death on the center of Kharkiv, Ukraine\u2019s second-largest city. Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine\u2019s president, said the missiles deliberately targeted civilians and described the attack as a war crime. The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has stated that he will &#8220;immediately proceed&#8221; with an investigation into alleged war crimes in Ukraine dating back to 2013 when protests erupted against a Russian government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:22px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/3\/2\/icc-to-begin-investigation-into-possible-war-crimes-in-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aljazeera<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About War Crimes War crimes are a serious&nbsp;violation of humanitarian laws during a conflict&nbsp;(derived from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","portfolio-category":[428,437,426],"class_list":["post-8393","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio-category-428","portfolio-category-march-2022","portfolio-category-newsfeed"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>An investigation into possible war crimes in Ukraine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What is the distinction between war crimes and crimes against humanity? 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