by Antonio Polito
“Bodies on balconies, graveyard silence everywhere.” Civilian casualties would have reached the number of three thousand. That is what the statute of the International Criminal Court in The Hague says
What is happening in Mariupol?
“I’m sure I’ll die soon. It’s a matter of days. In this city everyone is constantly waiting for death ». A citizen of Mariupol, Nadezda Sukhorukova, wrote it on Facebook, which was relaunched on Twitter by Anastasiia Lapatina, journalist of the Kiev Independent. In her war diary, Nadezda tells of “corpses lying on balconies, of a graveyard silence everywhere”. “I hope nobody ever sees what I saw,” said Greek consul in Mariupol, Manolis Androulakis, the last European diplomat to leave the besieged city. “Mariupol becomes part of the cities completely destroyed by war: Guernica, Coventry, Aleppo, Grozny, Leningrad”. According to the Ukrainian commander of the Azov detachment, Major Denys Prokopenko, the number of civilian casualties has reached three thousand. But “no one can say the exact number as the dead are buried in mass graves, without names. Many lie unburied on the street. Some people remain buried alive under the rubble ». But “a week may not be enough to take control of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol,” admits one of the besiegers, the head of the selfproclaimed Donetsk Republic, Denis Pushilin, quoted by Interfax. Mariupol, the city’s martyr who answered no to Russian surrender, is a resistance that will go down in history.
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Is it a war crime?
The Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court in The Hague in 1998, defines a war crime as “voluntarily causing great suffering or serious injury to physical integrity or health; Destruction and appropriation of property not justified by military necessity and carried out illegally and indiscriminately on a large scale; intentional attacks on civilian property, ie property that is not a military target; carry out intentional attacks in the knowledge that civilians will be killed, civilians injured or civilian property damaged; Attacking or bombing cities, villages, houses or buildings that are not defended and do not constitute military targets; intentionally direct attacks on buildings dedicated to worship, education, the arts, science, humanitarian purposes, historical monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are gathered. According to the European Union’s other foreign policy representative, Josep Borrell, “what is happening in Mariupol is a huge war crime”.
Meanwhile in Italy
The seventeen MPs from Alternativa c’e, a group of defectors to Grillini, have announced that they will leave tomorrow’s parliamentary session to avoid hearing Ukrainian President Zelenskyy’s speech.
“In order not to fight there will always be many pretexts under all circumstances, but never under all circumstances and in every age it will be possible to have freedom without the struggle!” (Che Guevara) “
March 21, 2022 (change March 21, 2022 | 20:17)
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