Article 6 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal
The charter was established as a result of the trial of the Nazis at Nuremberg.
Article 6 identifies three major offenses: Crimes Against Peace, War Crimes
And Crimes Against Humanity.
The conduct of Russia’s war in Ukraine infringes upon all three offences as demonstrated below.
Crimes Against Peace: defined by Article 6a, are concerned with the “planning, preparation, initiation, or waging of wars of aggression...”
War Crimes: defined by Article 6b, are described as “violations of the laws or customs of war. Such violations shall include, but not be limited to, murder, the ill-treatment or deportation of civilian residents of an occupied territory to slave labor camps or for any other purpose, the murder or ill=treatment of prisoners of war or persons on the seas, the killing of hostages, the plunder of public or private property, the wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, and any devastation not justified by military necessity.”
Crimes Against Humanity: defined by Article 6c. Following the genocide of the Jews by the Nazis, and in order to clarify Article 6c of the Nuremberg tribunal, crimes against humanity were defined by the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide of 9 December, 1948 in the following way: “Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) killing members of the group; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”
Guilty.