The prosecutor for the world’s only permanent war crimes court Tuesday formally requested to open the tribunal’s first inquiry into alleged abuses by Russia, by probing its 2008 war with Georgia.
In her request to a three-judge panel, prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said a preliminary investigation had found evidence of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Russian, Georgian and pro-Russian South Ossetian forces during the brutal, but swift, 2008 conflict.
Bensouda asked for permission to open an investigation into allegations of abuses from 1 July to 10 October 2008.
The initial inquiry had found "killings, forcible displacements and persecution of ethnic Georgian civilians, and destruction and pillaging of their property, by South Ossetian forces," Bensouda said.
There were also "attacks against Georgian peacekeepers by South Ossetian forces; and against Russian peacekeepers by Georgian forces".
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