Archive - 30/1/2016

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has launched an investigation of crimes committed during the armed conflict in South Ossetia in 2008, according to the document published on the official website of the ICC.

"After examining the application and supporting materials, the Chamber decided that there were reasonable grounds to believe that the crimes within the ICC's jurisdiction had been committed in Georgia", - the document says.

The State Adviser to the President of South Ossetia Konstantin Kochiev has stressed that for more than seven years since Georgia's attack on South Ossetia in 2008, no one in Georgia was prosecuted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, committed against the civilian population of South Ossetia and Russian peacekeepers.

"It gave formal grounds for the International Criminal Court to authorize a formal investigation on representation of the Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda - said Kochiev. - The Investigative Committee of Russia submitted to the International Criminal Court a huge amount of materials, confirming the guilt of Georgia."

According to Kochiev, "the ICC Prosecutor, apparently, will not collaborate with the authorities of South Ossetia in order to avoid even the hint of recognition of the international personality of our country."

"At the same time it is difficult to imagine that the ICC would violate the unwritten "concepts" and put in the dock the wards of the West - the criminal Georgian servicemen and representatives of the Georgian authorities "trained and equipped " by NATO members, who gave the criminal commands", -said the State Adviser to the President of South Ossetia.

According to Konstantin Kochiev, it is generally known that the "international justice" of The Hague is based on the principles of double standards, when the title of the US satellite is equivalent to the indulgence even for thosewho areobviously guilty of crimes against humanity.