Public Security Minister Marco Mendicino says the extra group of RCMP officers being despatched to assist the Worldwide Prison Court docket (ICC) examine doable warfare crimes by Russia will likely be deployed “as shortly as doable.”
Mendicino informed CTV Information Channel’s Energy Play host Evan Solomon the members are a part of a extremely “specialised” crew that will likely be as much as the duty of holding Russia accountable for its unlawful invasion of Ukraine.
“This will likely be a crew of devoted specialists who perceive the way to accumulate proof which could possibly be marshaled right into a future prosecution that could possibly be put earlier than the Worldwide Prison Court docket…These people will likely be deployed as shortly as doable,” he stated on Tuesday.
Mendicino made the announcement about Canada’s contribution to the ICC’s ongoing investigations, following a request from the ICC’s workplace of the prosecutor, earlier within the day.
“Within the face of Putin and the Russian navy’s flagrant violation of worldwide regulation, Canada will proceed to work to make sure that they're held accountable for his or her unlawful actions,” a press release reads.
“Canadian investigators will likely be assigned to groups working to finish impunity for the perpetrators of probably the most severe crimes of concern to the worldwide neighborhood -- together with genocide, warfare crimes and crimes towards humanity.”
The RCMP at the moment has three investigators deployed to the ICC. The contingent will develop to 10 with Tuesday’s announcement.
Take heed to Mendicino’s interview on the high of this text.
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