Kiev accuses Moscow for manipulating the genocide convention to justify the invasion of Ukraine. Russia remained silent to these accusations. The decision of the Hague judges will be rendered in the coming days.
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Russia remained silent facing the accusations of Kiev before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Ukraine pleaded alone, Monday, March 7, during hearings at the Peace Palace in The Hague. At the opening of the debates, the President of the ICJ, Joan Donoghue, deplored the Russian government’s decision “not to participate in the oral procedure” no more details. One of Russia’s lawyers, French Alain Pellet, had announced last week, in a letter, give up defending Russia.
“They are not in front of a court of law, they are on the battlefield to lead an aggressive war,” denounced Ukraine. At the head of the delegation, Anton Korynevitch spoke for many minutes the “vital” urgency to act and order Moscow to suspend his military operation. By grabbing the ICJ two days after the beginning of the war, Ukraine said in essence: “Let’s settle that in civilized nations. Deposit the weapons and advance your evidence,” explained the diplomat. He wants to believe that Moscow “knows that international law accounts. Otherwise why Russia would try to justify his aggression?”.
In order to seize the court, Kiev accuses Moscow for abuse of the convention for the prevention and repression of genocide to justify his war. By announcing the entrance of his troops in Ukraine on February 24, Vladimir Putin had said he wanted to warn a genocide in the Donbass, east of Ukraine. “It’s a terrible lie,” denounced Anton Korynevitch. But “when Putin ment, the Ukrainians, our citizens, die,” he said visibly moved.
“Russia salt the memory of the Holocaust”
He then mentioned the current disaster: “The Russian bombs and missiles falling on our cities”, the “millions of people in danger”, the 15,000 people, most often women and children, Filling in the Kiev Metro Tunnels … The diplomat, representative of President Volodymyr Zelensky in Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014, deplored no longer able to “provide the services of the State with those residing in the occupied territories , including anti-Covid vaccination. “
With his argument, Kiev also wanted to once again alert on the risks of Russian aggression beyond the borders of Ukraine. “Russia saliates the memory of the Holocaust by saying that it wants to denazify the Ukraine”, but “we must remember that during the Second World War, the Ukrainians and the Russians have fought together. We must remember that On the ashes of Europe, after the Second World War, the world has built the pillars of modern international law, “the Charter of the United Nations and the Genocide Convention.
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