How social media might bring war criminals to justice in Ukraine:
above 60. These attacks, among other actions, led President Joe Biden to call Russia’s president Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” last week, while the Russian government has falsely claimed the maternity hospital was taken over by military radicals.
Mariana Vishegirskaya walks down stairs in of a maternity hospital damaged by shelling in Mariupol. She survived the shelling and later delivered a baby girl in another hospital.here’s precedent for communications technology to advance the cause of preventing war crimes.
on social media, including Twitter, Facebook and Telegram, which falsely claimed the maternity hospital in Mariupol was empty and being used as a military outpost and calling pregnant women in the photographs “crisis actors.” The Russian government has already been laying the groundwork for why it believes the hospital lost its protected status, even as two adults and a child died and 17 people were injured.
Criminal prosecution is but one piece of the global accountability framework that is supposed to prevent these war crimes from happening in the first place. It relies on a combination of hard power tactics, like prosecution and sanctions, and soft power tactics, like naming and shaming by the U.N. or NGOs and the collection of independent information about the attacks. But the system can also be thwarted by individuals and governments who just don’t seem to care about the consequences.
For the past 40 years, Stover of Cal-Berkeley’s Human Rights Center has worked on forensic investigations of war crimes from Argentina to Bosnia to Rwanda to Ukraine. When it comes to collecting evidence, there are three types: testimonial, documentary and physical. But digital technology – from satellite images to social media accounts to smartphone video – is playing an increasingly important role in piecing together what happened.
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