Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday revealed that the Justice Department is contributing to international investigations into alleged war crimes in Ukraine, escalating the United States’ involvement in efforts to hold Russia legally accountable for atrocities committed during its invasion.
“The world sees what is happening in Ukraine. The Justice Department sees what is happening in Ukraine,” Garland said at a news conference at department headquarters in Washington. He was joined by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, FBI Director Chrisotper Wray and other senior national security officials to announce new actions against Russian criminal activity.
Wray specifically referred to images that emerged over the weekend from the Ukrainian suburb of Bucha outside the capital of Kyiv — where bound and battered bodies, bombed-out residential buildings, and bags of corpses lining mass gravesites were discovered after Russian forces’ retreat from the northen part of the country.
“This department has a long history of helping to hold accountable those who perpetrate war crimes,” Garland said, invoking his predecessor Robert Jackson — a former attorney general in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration who went on to serve as the chief U.S. prosecutor of Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials.
“Today, we are assisting international efforts to identify and hold accountable those responsible for atrocities in Ukraine, and we will continue to do so,” Garland said.
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By: Quint Forgey
Title: Garland: DOJ assisting international war crimes investigations in Ukraine
Sourced From: www.politico.com/news/2022/04/06/doj-war-crimes-investigations-ukraine-00023393
Published Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 10:16:53 EST
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