Tribune. The Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov, proclaimed him on April 3: “The whole world must know: during this century, humanity will live the new trials of Nuremberg. They will take place in The Hague, Kharkiv, In Bantcha or Irpine. “The next day, President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Russian people:” The time will come when each Russian will learn the whole truth about who, among his fellow citizens, killed. who gave orders. Closed his eyes on the murders (…) We are now in 2022. And we have more tools than those who continued the Nazis after the Second World War. “
Since the beginning of the aggression war led by Russia against Ukraine, the ability of Ukrainian leaders to prepare immediately, at the national level, the judgment of crimes committed against the civilian population is particularly remarkable, all As the fact that the International Criminal Court (ICC) diligences an investigation. At the trials held at the location of crimes may indeed be subject to those under a supranational authority, as was the case in 1945. And President Zelensky, with reason, therefore, that the means of investigation now available to the investigators are More numerous than at the end of the Second World War.
Face atrocities
Among these sources of information, the image plays a vital role. While the Nazis had prevented the production, and more the diffusion, of images of the crimes committed in the east and the destruction of the Jews of Europe, one of the first decisions of the US Attorney, a few days later The opening of the Nuremberg trial, had been to place the Nazis leaders in front of the images of the concentration camps taken by the Allies. The projection of images, qualified by the Court, had indeed three functions: attesting the crimes committed by making them credible; force the accused to face their atrocities visually; Crossing images with other documents and testimonials, submitting them to the contradictory debate specific to the judicial proceedings.
Today, in KharkiV as in The Hague, the first surveys carry out a documentation work including the rally of traces, written reports, testimonials and images. For its part, the Russian counter-propaganda, if it was able to deploy at its ease in the official media and on certain social networks under its influence, was so coarse and cynical that its pregnance is strongly limited.
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