Prosecutors who dealt with Kosovo: Russia committed crimes, but Putin can hardly be tried

Alex Whiting, deputy prosecutor at the Kosovo Specialised Prosecutor's Office with headquarters at The Hague and former prosecutor at the Former Yugoslavia Criminal Tribunal and the International Criminal Court (ICC), is seeing as an obstacle the fact that Russia is not a member of the latter.

This, along with other technical and technical reasons, since prosecution of high profile leaders becomes even more difficult because they are not usually on the scene of alleged war crimes.

War crimes have been historically difficult to investigate and often more challenging to prosecute. This is especially true when prosecutors seek to keep leaders or former leaders responsible”, said Whiting, the second man of the special court who is judging the top leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army, among them the president, Hashim Thaci, broadcast Klankosova. tv

That the way towards holding Putin and other Russian officials responsible for what is happening in Ukraine is long and complex, says former Chief Prosecutor of the Task Force, Clinton Williams, who conducted the investigation into the report claiming there has been illegal trafficking of human organs during the war in Kosovo.

But even this has no doubt about the nature of crime.

Of course, the discovery of troops with signs of execution as a gunshot wound to the head presents powerful evidence that war crimes have been committed. “When victims are found with bound hands, eyes bound and with signs of torture or sexual assault becomes an even more convincing case. There is no circumstances under which these actions are allowed, whether civilian victims or military personnel who were taken captive”, says Williams, who is also former US ambassador to war crimes cases.

Meanwhile, even former UN war crimes prosecutor Alex Batesmith says there is no possibility that the Russian president will be brought before the ICC.

However, there is no way on earth that Putin will be handed over to the International Criminal Court or be arrested and brought to this court without major intercstinctial conflicts or internal political changes in Russia that do not seem reliable that it could happen”, he told AP, Clankosova.tv reported.

These prosecutors join with calls, The Hague's former prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, who was the first of this international balance that called for an indictment against the Russian leader, as it was raised against former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. ( AP/Axios)