Current WAR CRIMES Bashar al Assad Dictatorship - Syria

[Zidane98]

I don't think the UNSC members can veto a recognition of the ICC's jurisdiction. Syria could request / recognise ICC jurisdiction.

I'm not sure how past crimes that pre-date the date of referral to the ICC prosecutor are treated or investigated, or if they're basically outside the ICC's remit.

Syria can accept an ICC mandate for jurisdiction without being an ICC member. This is what Ukraine has done as of 2015 and this is why the ICC has been able to issue an arrest warrant against Putin for the war crime of forcible transfer of Ukranian children on a large scale to Russian territory along with Russia's child commissioner.

An ICC mandate cannot however be backdated.


War crimes can be investigated and charged in states that are not ICC members or do not have an ICC mandate for jurisdiction.


This however requires a UNSC resolution for such an investigation to proceed. From ICC webstie:

Jurisdiction​

The Court may exercise jurisdiction in a situation where genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes were committed on or after 1 July 2002 and:

• the crimes were committed by a State Party national, or in the territory of a State Party, or in a State that has accepted the jurisdiction of the Court; or (this does not apply to Assad)
• the crimes were referred to the ICC Prosecutor by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) pursuant to a resolution adopted under chapter VII of the UN charter.

In the case of Assad there is a 100% certainty that Russia will veto any UNSC resolution for the ICC to investigate Assad.


Another example is there was a UNSC resolution tabled for an ICC investigation into the MH17 shootdown as a war crime. At the time Ukraine did not have an ICC mandate and was not an ICC member. So, a resolution was tabled in the UNSC for ICC jurisdiction on the case. Russia vetod this immediately for obvious reasons.

 

[Kurve]

There's another mass grave estimated by workers responsible for covering it over, to hold 150,000 bodies. It's just over the fence to a Russian and an Iranian base, now abandoned.

 

[Zidane98]

There's another mass grave estimated by workers responsible for covering it over, to hold 150,000 bodies. It's just over the fence to a Russian and an Iranian base, now abandoned.

When Russia eventually leaves Ukraine similar horrors await.

 

[Kurve]

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

The USA - damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

 

[faible]

The USA - damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

The UN aren't the USA.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

The UN aren't the USA.

The UN only don't

 

[faible]

The UN only don't

So edgy.

 

[BFew]

Assad's dual citizen British wife will be lucky to ever leave Russia Alive.
Maybe in a spy swap one day?

Kremlin denies Assad's Brit wife is trying to divorce fallen dictator

Asma al-Assad, 49, is currently exiled in Moscow with the toppled dictator, having left behind their lives of luxury in Syria. The former first lady is said to be dissatisfied with her life under the guard of Putin.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Kurve]

Assad's dual citizen British wife will be lucky to ever leave Russia Alive.
Maybe in a spy swap one day?

Kremlin denies Assad's Brit wife is trying to divorce fallen dictator

Asma al-Assad, 49, is currently exiled in Moscow with the toppled dictator, having left behind their lives of luxury in Syria. The former first lady is said to be dissatisfied with her life under the guard of Putin.

www.dailymail.co.uk

They were already separated I think? Agree, she might be stuck in Russia.

 

[Kurve]

New identities.

 

[Mofra]

Assad's dual citizen British wife will be lucky to ever leave Russia Alive.
Maybe in a spy swap one day?

Kremlin denies Assad's Brit wife is trying to divorce fallen dictator

Asma al-Assad, 49, is currently exiled in Moscow with the toppled dictator, having left behind their lives of luxury in Syria. The former first lady is said to be dissatisfied with her life under the guard of Putin.

www.dailymail.co.uk

She'd want to book the ground floor in any hotel she stays at. Moscow windows can't be trusted

 

[Kurve]

About 27,000 photos of dead and tortured civilian detainees were smuggled out of secret Syrian government archives by a military defector codenamed "Caesar" and made public in 2014. They were presented to the United Nations as evidence of the Bashar al-Assad regime’s killing of 11,000 civilian detainees in a single region from March 2011 to August 2013.

After the search for justice failed to produce any prosecutions, victims’ families turned to courts in Europe.

This documentary film follows two of these cases for more than five years – one in Spain, where a woman identifies her brother as one of the bodies from the "Caesar" photos, and the other in France, where lawyer Clemence Bectarte triggers an investigation into the disappearance of her client’s brother and nephew in a detention centre in Damascus.The Lost Souls of Syria features testimony from "Caesar", his accomplice "Sami" and other Syrians.

 

[craffles]

Assad's dual citizen British wife will be lucky to ever leave Russia Alive.
Maybe in a spy swap one day?

Kremlin denies Assad's Brit wife is trying to divorce fallen dictator

Asma al-Assad, 49, is currently exiled in Moscow with the toppled dictator, having left behind their lives of luxury in Syria. The former first lady is said to be dissatisfied with her life under the guard of Putin.

www.dailymail.co.uk

If she’s alive, she’s doing better than all of her husbands victims. Can’t imagine she would be all that safe in the UK either.