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Helló Magyar reported that Gordon Bajnai, a former Hungarian prime minister, would put Russian President Vladimir Putin on trial. Mr Bajnai is among, for example, former British prime ministers Gordon Brown and Sir John Major. The cause of the petition is the assault on Ukraine and the horrors the Russian army commits in the country.
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Based on avaaz.org, almost 1.3 million people signed the petition. It aims to bring Russian President Vladimir Putin to the international court. The signers would like the Russian president to answer for the war crimes the Russian army allegedly committed against civilians in Ukraine. “As citizens from across the world, we urgently call on you to hold Putin and his accomplices personally accountable for their illegal invasion of Ukraine by creating a new Special Tribunal for the punishment of the crime of aggression. We also call on you to fully support the International Criminal Court’s separate
investigation into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine.
There will never be peace without such accountability – we are counting on you” – the petition says.
According to Helló Magyar, there are two former British prime ministers among the signers: Gordon Brown and Sir John Major. That is what all Hungarian media outlets spotted. BBC and other international news websites highlighted Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba, who was the originator of the petition. Besides, the American-Hungarian former Nuremberg prosecutor, Benjamin Ferencz, and the former Head of the European Court of Human Rights, Sir Nicolas Bratza, also supported it. However, Helló Magyar’s author, Tamás Ulicza, noticed that even a former Hungarian Prime Minister signed the petition.
Gordon Bajnai was a Hungarian PM between 2009 and 2010.
The Socialists and the liberal SZDSZ elected him after Ferenc Gyurcsány’s resignation. Mr Bajnai was followed by Viktor Orbán, after Fidesz’s landslide victory in 2010 April.
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War crimes against Ukrainians?
Gordon Brown told BBC that since the fall of the Berlin Wall “we’ve assumed that democracy and the rule of law will prevail”, but that Mr Putin “is replacing that by the use of force”. “If the message is not sent out now then we face aggression in other countries which may go unpunished as well,” he told Radio 4’s Today programme. When asked if he considered the Russian president a war criminal, he replied:
I wonder what people think what a war is. A war kills civilians, destroys infrastructures, kills and maims soldiers, destroys weapons and enriches the Military Industrial Complex. It is evident that wars have been the same, the old photographs of WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Serbia, Korea and even the 30 and 100 year wars (where castles and fortresses were burned down) demonstrate the destruction. Cemeteries are filled with tombs in honor of the dead fighting men, most of who were ordered into battle, regardless the chances of survival. There is no honor in a war. The idea is to kill the enemy.
Could this melee have been avoided between Russia and the Ukraine? This need not have happened if Ukraine (urged by the Biden Administration) would have achieved neutrality and did not threaten Russia to join NATO.. Now, Ukraine is fighting a proxy war on behalf of the US with Russia.
Men have not learned from history and are just as inane as in the middle ages.
And what about Georgia, Finland, Sweden, Moldova. They now want to join NATO, will that be Biden’s fault too