Nobel Peace Prize 2022: Laureate’s Ukrainian organization calls for Putin to be tried by international court

The head of the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties, who was honored with the award today Peace Nobel together with imprisoned Belarusian activist Ales Bilyatsky and the Russian human rights organization Memorial; asked for the creation of an international court to try Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Necessary establish an international tribunal and bring to justice Putin, (Belarusian President Alexander) Lukashenko and other war criminals» wrote Alexandra Matviychuk on her Facebook page.

“The UN and member states must solve the problem of the “responsibility pit” and give a chance for justice to the hundreds of thousands of victims of war crimes. Without it, a sustainable peace in our region is impossible,” he explained.

As he said, “Russia should be expelled from the UN Security Council for systematically violating the Charter of the United Nations.”

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According to the NGO’s website, “the global initiative ‘Breaking Russia’s Impunity for War Crimes’ was created in response to the widespread attack by the Russian Federation in February 2022.”

Since its inception invasion of Ukraine on February 24, “we are documenting the war crimes of Russian soldiers in Ukraine across the country” Anna Trutsova, press officer, explained in Kyiv at the headquarters of the NGO.

“The Ukrainian people are today the main pioneers of peace, in which one must exist without aggression,” the director of the office of the Ukrainian presidency, Andriy Yermak, wrote on Telegram.

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded today jointly to Belarusian activist Ales Bialatsky, who is still a prisoner in his countrythe Russian NGO Memorial – whose dissolution was ordered by the Russian authorities – and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties.

The Nobel Committee has an interesting take on “peace” if representatives of countries that attacked a third get the Nobel Prize together” Mihailo Podoliak commented on Twitter. “The Russian and Belarusian organizations failed to organize the resistance to the war,” he said.

The Russian Memorial organization and Belarusian human rights defender Ales Bialatsky are victims of repression in their countries.

Belarus offered its territory for Russian troops to invade Ukraine.


Source: News Beast

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