Putin: Indicted War Criminal
American Diplomat
English - September 14, 2023 14:09 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 234 ratingsEducation Government travel diplomacy diplomat foreign international Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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BRICS, the economic alliance of nonwestern powers, just met in Johannesburg, with Putin conspicuously disinvited. Why? Putin is a war criminal indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), and South Africa, a member of BRICS but also a signatory of the ICC, is obligated to arrest Putin upon his arrival there. A complex situation! Which commitment to serve? Are war criminals today at greater risk of accountability than once upon a time? Amb. David Scheffer, a creator of the ICC, is optimistic.