All posts tagged "War Crimes"

The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the U.S. could be inadvertently helping Russian President Vladimir Putin cover up alleged Russian war crimes involving children.

The controversy revolves around a now terminated, U.S.-funded initiative that contained "a sensitive database detailing the mass deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia," The Post reported. The project was headed up by Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab, but that contract was recently scrapped by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.

When the it abruptly ended, researchers reported losing "access to a trove of information, including satellite imagery and biometric data tracking the identities and locations of as many as 35,000 children from Ukraine."...

The French Foreign Ministry has emphasized its "firm opposition" to Israeli plans to launch a military ground offensive against the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. "France also recalls that the forced displacement of a civilian population constitutes a war crime under international law," the ministry said in a statement on Monday. The French government demanded that the Palestinian militant group Hamas immediately release all hostages, and that parties to the conflict agree to a permanent ceasefire that protects the needs of the civilian population. French President Emmanuel Macron h......