As Vladimir 's war in enters its second year, investigators are collecting evidence of possible to bring before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.If Putin is eventually put in the dock, his prosecution would be in the tradition of the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders which led to our modern system of international justice: when 'genocide' and 'crimes against humanity' became a part of international law. The opening words at Nuremberg by America's chief prosecutor Justice Robert H. Jackson, on November 21, 1945, have gone down in history as one of the most influential pieces of oratory in the canon of international law.Here, we reprint them – but slightly adapted from the charge-sheet against 22 Nazi leaders, including Hermann Goering and Joachim von Ribbentrop, to fit the accusations that might one day soon be laid against Putin.
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