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Putin ‘unfazed and unrepentant’, despite war crimes


John Sparks - Africa reporter

John Sparks

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The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, can now be arrested in 123 countries – but he knows that no one will detain him in Crimea.

The peninsula was captured by Ukraine in 2014 and the longtime Russian leader returned to celebrate the 9th anniversary of its annexation.

It’s a good place to see – and be seen.

Putin looked calm and unrepentant, a day after he was indicted by the International Criminal Court for deporting children from Ukraine to Russia.

And this is almost certainly the problem.

“This is good,” he said as he was led around a renovated arts complex by local dignitaries.

“What’s the total, an art school?” he asks.

“An art school and a children’s camp. We agreed that we would choose very talented children,” replied a local priest.

He doesn’t seem to care that Russia’s president and children’s commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, is wanted for the abduction of more than 100 children.

The allegations should be easy to prove.

During a nationally televised meeting, Putin and Lvova-Belova casually discussed how she adopted a 15-year-old Ukrainian boy.

According to the former United Nations special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, Ben Emmerson, the indictments are a sign of intent to act on behalf of criminal court judges.

“I think for many international criminal lawyers it is a fresh and encouraging sign that Prosecutor (Karim Ahmad) Khan is making the decision here to prosecute first, a case that he He knows he can prove with very little difficulty. But as I said, more certain fees must be followed.”

Mr. Emmerson said that the ICC sent a strong message to all those involved in war crimes in Ukraine, whether committed in the past or planned in the future.

“The court and prosecutor have decided that the indictment should be made public immediately, certainly sending a very clear signal that those responsible for the crimes in this war will be held accountable first. international criminal court.”

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