They did that in Chechnya too. Look how they rounded up the perps...
shelling residential buildings, firing on fleeing refugees, and destroying any infrastructure that supports the lives of innocent civilians ... are all war crimes under international law. Whoever is involved in the chain of command that gave the orders — all the way up to the head of state — can and should be charged. This means Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...must be indicted for war crimes.
There is no question about who issued the orders. The invasion of Ukraine and the cruel bombing campaign cannot be blamed on a rogue Russian general. It was organized and directed by Putin himself. He admitted as much in his maniacal vows to destroy his perceived enemies in neighboring Ukraine.
Historically, the gathering of incriminating evidence has been both difficult and time-consuming. Perpetrators cover up their crimes and witnesses are reluctant to speak out in fear for their own lives. But the atrocities in Ukraine are different.
On a daily basis, the world has watched in real time many of the war crimes committed by the military forces that Putin controls. Thanks to modern technology, the evidence has been collected by news hounds with cameras, as well as Ukrainians on their cellphones or other devices. Satellite images confirm the death and destruction.
The compilation and authentication of the damning evidence is no longer an obstacle as it once was. It has already been communicated electronically throughout the world and stored. We have watched it unfold with our own eyes.
The appalling video of the bombings as they happened, photographs of mangled bodies of women and kiddies, pictures of mass graves, and the personal accounts of the carnage by those who watched in horror constitute self-evident proof.
In the city of Mariupol alone, some 1,200 civilians were slaughtered. That number seems to rise by the hour. The names of the victims and how they were massacred by Putin’s heavily armed troops have been meticulously recorded.