March 2022 – War Crimes Research

Never say never? The ICC, Putin and Ukraine

by Rachel Kerr On 1 March 2022, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, QC, announced that he was able immediately to open an investigation into the situation in Ukraine. Earlier the same week, Khan had indicated that he was seeking authorisation to do so, and suggested that it could be expedited …

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Putin and the End of ‘Genocide’?

by James Gow When Russian President Vladimir Putin justified his attack on Ukraine as ‘genocide’ prevention, the hollowness was astounding, the term emptied of meaning. It has become stock for one side to cry ‘genocide’ in pretty much every violent conflict of the past three decades. Those cries usually come from those subject to attack …

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