How to Make the Identification of War Criminals Inevitable?

Last week, I moderated an expert discussion titled "How to Make the Identification of War Criminals Inevitable?" The discussion was organized by the Center for Civil Liberties, which brought together speakers from the most active and influential organizations in this field: the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, the Office of the Prosecutor General, the War Archive, Investigation.Info, the Ukrainian Helsinki Union on Human Rights, and the Kharkiv Human Rights Group.

We did not discuss the idea of ​​amnesty for Russian war criminals. Such an option simply should not exist in the future.

We discussed something else: How can we collaborate more effectively to identify war criminals? What international institutions and mechanisms can assist in identification? What criminal databases exist, and how can they be used? Why is the participation of civil society organizations in documenting war crimes important?

Representatives of the Coordination Headquarters and the Office of the Prosecutor General presented a new state project, "Repentance." It allows Russian war criminals to atone for or mitigate their guilt by reporting their crimes. Russians who witnessed war crimes can also report the crime. It's time for these people to consider their fate. The future of the Russian regime is becoming increasingly uncertain as its aggression against Ukraine continues. With each passing day, the collective West's desire to eliminate its root cause—the Russian regime—intensifies. The war will end, but this desire will persist. Once the Russian regime is destroyed, war criminals will be left without protection. This is inevitable, and we are preparing for it.