Could Putin be prosecuted for war crimes?
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🗓️ 28 March 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Hospitals bombed. Thousands of civilians killed. If war crimes have been committed in Ukraine, as many suspect, have the events of the past month exposed the laws of war as toothless?
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Guest: Professor Gregory Gordon, former war crimes prosecutor and professor of law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:00.0 | We already see President Putin committing what many in Congress are calling war crimes, |
| 0:15.8 | indiscriminate bombing, bombing places where they know civilians are hiding, pregnant |
| 0:20.1 | women and children if this forces are stalled. |
| 0:23.5 | What's next? |
| 0:24.5 | We certainly see clear evidence that Russian forces are committing war crimes. |
| 0:28.3 | And we are helping with the collecting of evidence of that. |
| 0:35.7 | The US State Department has formally declared that war crimes have been committed in Ukraine, |
| 0:43.7 | but still the bombs keep dropping. |
| 0:47.1 | As the world sits on its hands, have the laws of war been shown to be toothless? |
| 0:57.5 | We're listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday times. |
| 1:01.5 | I'm Manvin Rana, today will President Putin be prosecuted for war crimes? |
| 1:20.7 | Today we're talking about the laws of war, so let me introduce you to one of the world's |
| 1:26.3 | leading experts. |
| 1:28.5 | My name is Gregory Gordon, I am a former war crimes prosecutor, a professor of law at the |
| 1:34.5 | Chinese University of Hong Kong, and I have family work with the UN and the United States |
| 1:39.4 | Department of Justice. |
| 1:41.2 | And it was out the DOJ in America that Professor Gordon fought for justice in some of the worst |
| 1:47.3 | cases of war crimes in history. |
| 1:50.2 | So I was with what was called the Nazi hunting unit in the US Department of Justice. |
| 1:54.3 | It was kind of my dream job. |
| 1:56.1 | I got interested in this area because I was interested in prosecution of Nazi war criminals, |
| 2:01.2 | and I was interested in Nuremberg. |
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