The previous chief prosecutor of the Worldwide Prison Court docket has known as for a global arrest warrant to be issued for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"Putin is a battle felony," Carla Del Ponte advised the Swiss newspaper Le Temps in an interview printed in a single day.
In interviews given to Swiss media to mark the discharge of her newest e-book, the Swiss lawyer who oversaw ICC battle crimes investigations in Rwanda, Syria and the previous Yugoslavia mentioned there have been clear battle crimes being dedicated in Ukraine.
She mentioned she was significantly shocked by way of mass graves in Russia's battle on Ukraine, which remembers the worst of the wars within the former Yugoslavia.
"I hoped by no means to see mass graves once more," she advised the newspaper Blick.
"These useless individuals have family members who do not even know what's turn out to be of them. That's unacceptable."
Different battle crimes she recognized in Ukraine included assaults on civilians, the destruction of civilian buildings and even the demolishing of complete cities.
She mentioned the investigation in Ukraine can be simpler than that in Yugoslavia as a result of the nation itself had requested a global probe. The present ICC chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, visited Ukraine final month.
If the ICC finds proof of battle crimes, she mentioned, "you could go up the chain of command till you attain those that took the choices."
She mentioned it will be doable to convey even Putin to account.
"You should not let go, proceed to investigation. When the investigation into Slobodan Milosevic started, he was nonetheless president of Serbia. Who would have thought then that he would at some point be judged? No one," she advised Blick.
Del Ponte added that investigations needs to be carried out into doable battle crimes dedicated by either side, pointing additionally to experiences concerning the alleged torture of some Russian prisoners of battle by Ukrainian forces.