War Crimes (w/ AMB Stephen Rapp)
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
President Biden this past Monday doubled down on his charge that Vladimir Putin's Russian forces were committing war crimes in Ukraine. Biden referenced the grotesque images emerging from Bucha showing Ukrainian citizens, their hands tied behind their backs shot and killed by Russian soldiers, their bodies dumped on the streets. Eye-witnesses describe the discovery of mass graves and reports of looting, rape, and other atrocities. Coming on top of Russian missile strikes on a maternity ward and other residential areas. The latest evidence would seem to cry out for a full-scale investigation for war crimes. But how would a war crimes prosecution actually work? And is there any realistic chance that Putin himself would be held accountable? We talk to Stephen Rapp, who formally served at the State Department as US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes.
GUESTS:
- Stephen Rapp, Fmr. United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues in the Office of Global Criminal Justice
HOSTS:
- Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
- Daniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
- Victoria Bassetti (@VBass), fellow, Brennan Center for Justice (contributing co-host)
RESOURCES:
- Yahoo News' Dylan Stableford and Colin Campbell's article on Biden claiming Putin should face war crimes - Here.
- Yahoo News explainer: What is a War Crime? - Here.
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| 0:00.0 | I got criticized for calling food to war criminal. |
| 0:05.0 | Well, the truth of the matter is so it happened in the group. |
| 0:09.0 | This warrants the enemy as a war criminal. |
| 0:12.0 | But we have to gather the information. |
| 0:14.0 | We have to continue to provide Ukraine with the weapons they need to continue the fight. |
| 0:19.0 | And we have to gather all the detail. |
| 0:22.0 | So this can be, we actually have a war crime trial. |
| 0:25.0 | This guy is brutal. |
| 0:27.0 | And what's happening in the Rukha is outrageous. |
| 0:30.0 | And everyone sees it. |
| 0:32.0 | Up to Allah. |
| 0:34.0 | No, I think it is a war crime. |
| 0:37.0 | That was President Biden on Monday, doubling down on his charge |
| 0:41.0 | that Vladimir Putin's Russian forces were committing war crimes in Ukraine. |
| 0:46.0 | Biden referenced the grotesque images emerging from Bukha, |
| 0:49.0 | showing Ukrainian citizens their hands tied behind their backs, |
| 0:53.0 | shot and killed by Russian soldiers. |
| 0:55.0 | Their bodies dumped on the streets. |
| 0:58.0 | I witnesses described the discovery of mass graves and reports of looting rape and other atrocities. |
| 1:04.0 | Coming on top of Russian missile strikes on a maternity ward and other residential areas, |
| 1:08.0 | the latest evidence would seem to cry out for a full-scale investigation for war crimes. |
| 1:14.0 | But how would a war crimes prosecution actually work? |
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