nobody s beneath it. but whether you re a private or a captain or a colonel or a general or a civilian superior, the basic principles apply to you. nobody gets the get out of free card, nobody gets a free pass. every individual must act with responsibility in the in their contact and there is this personal accountability. superior orders is not a defense. it is not enough, um, to attack a civilian object and attack women and children, for example, to say i was told to do so. this is an opportunity and a responsibility to mobilize the law, and set it into battle. not on behalf of ukraine or against russia, nor on behalf of russia against ukraine. but on behalf of humanity. ukrainian officials have claimed that russia s actions in ukraine constitute genocide ask earlier this week, u.s. president joe biden also called it genocide. white house, though, said he was not making any legal judgment. on thursday, though, the
principle in nuremberg that crimes are committed by men, not abstract entities. individuals who have power, whether it s rape, a gun, mortar, a shell or a missile from an airplane. there are obligations. people cannot under the laws of war do what they want with impunity. how is it possible to go from just holding a private or a sergeant responsible versus this is systemic. they were told to do this. and it goes up the ladder and you hold colonels, generals, commanders, president putin responsible. how does that work? the important thing is i think it s nobody is above the law. nobody is beneath it. but whether you re a private or a captain or a colonel or a general or a civilian superior, the basic principles apply to you. nobody gets a get out of jail free card, nobody gets a free pass. every individual must act with
doing aerial strikes or targeting decisions or you re a civilian superior, under the statute, there is responsibility. you ve seen images of residential buildings being struck by a tank just firing sbiet or a missile hitting it. what do you have to prove in each incident? what you really have to show is firstly that s a civilian area, there was not belligerent fire. for example, there were not mortars coming from that location. someone needs to speak to witnesses, look at satellite evidence, look at intercepts from the area to try to look at what it deliberately targeted. was it just civilian or just a portion of that or a legitimate military target. if somebody is found guilty, if vladimir putin, anybody, is found guilty, no matter what level, what do you do about it? the first thing we re looking at all sides. we re independent, we re impartial you re an apolitical actor. we re looking at all sides