The petition, which says ‘trial Putin’, was launched earlier this month after the Russian leader launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine. In just a few weeks, it reached its goal of almost 1,500,000 signatures.
The Nuremberg trials were held after the end of the Second World War to hold members of Nazi Germany responsible for invading other countries and committing serious crimes, including the Holocaust.
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“As citizens around the world, we urge you to hold Putin and his accomplices personally responsible for their illegal occupation of Ukraine, by creating a new Special Court to punish the crime of aggression. We also urge you to consider the International Criminal Court’s alleged war crimes and crimes in Ukraine,” the petition reads. We call on you to support its separate investigation of crimes against humanity. Without such responsibility there will never be peace. We count on you.” message was shared.
It was also stated in the petition that this lawsuit to be filed against Putin was to protect not only Ukraine but the rest of the world.
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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba also announced plans to set up a tribunal to bring Russian leaders and Putin to justice after the brutal attacks on Ukraine.
Minister Kuleba stated that Russia openly rejected Ukraine and the right to exist of the Ukrainian people with this aggressive war and the reasons it has stated, and this points to the inhuman ideology of Russia, on which the crime of aggression is rooted.
Kuleba said he was “confident” that he and other global leaders could successfully sue Putin and Russia for unjustified violence against Ukraine.
THERE IS A GROWING CRIME LIST
Wayne Jordash QC, a British humanitarian lawyer working in Ukraine, told Sky News the prospect of Putin’s trial is likely as there is a “growing list of crimes” allegedly committed by the Russian military under his command.
He also added that as the war continues to escalate, Russian troops’ “disappointment” with the occupation, which has been consistently halted by Ukrainian citizens, has led to an increasing number of war crimes.
“The conflicts gradually escalated into one where the Russians either didn’t care what they were hitting or deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure to intimidate and dominate the civilian population. We’re definitely talking about war crimes in every town and city attacked,” he said.