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Remarks by Harold Hongju Koh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2023

Harold Hongju Koh
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What was distinctive about this event is that it is not just the use of force for aggression. This is the use of blatant war crimes as a tool of naked aggression. The Russians started war crimes from day one, indiscriminate shelling from afar. We now see, in Bucha, that when they got up close, they tortured people; they bound them; in the case of women, they raped them; they summarily executed them; and they threw them into mass graves. This is one of the most blatant combinations of atrocity and aggression we have seen in many decades.

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Fractures in the Foundation: Is Waging Aggressive War Still Prohibited by International Law?
Information
Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 116 , 2022 , pp. 89 - 90
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The American Society of International Law

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