THE WANTED


From a neutral standpoint, I suppose it would be fair enough to assume the Russian invasion of Ukraine as "bad in law", since it violates the UN Charter. Legal voices cite it as a crime of aggression under the Rome Statute, to which Russia had been a signatory in 1991... 

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has thus issued an arrest warrant for the Russian president. Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, too gives him company... 

The offence - forced deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia... 

Deportation of population is a crime as per the Rome statute. Initially a signatory, Russia withdrew from it in 2016 and also declared that it did not recognise the jurisdiction of the court... 

Ukraine, though not a signatory, gave ICC the nod to investigate war crimes committed on her soil, following which ICC officials in around four trips to Ukraine found evidence pointing to the Russian president's culpability... 

As things stand Putin and Lvova-Belova have no reason to worry as Russia does not recognise the court, without any question of extradition... 

Therfore, does the warrant really mean anything? 

Perhaps not for Putin; but perhaps yes for other senior persons in power, who could come in trouble should they choose to step out of Russian shores for work or leisure... 

However, the arrest and release of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London in 1998, and South Africa's refusal to arrest Sudanese dictator Omar Al-Bashir during his visit in 2015 despite the ICC not recognising immunity for heads of state in cases involving war crimes and crimes against humanity, show the complexities involved in implementation of such decrees... 

Nevertheless, the arrest warrant could be seen as the ICC’s stance against the impunity with which some people in power are wont to act, for whatever reasons or justifications, and also as a "wake-up call" to others harboring any such aspirations... 

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