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Reported deaths, human rights issues and crimes against humanity as defined by the International Criminal Court Statute which Belarus did not sign or ratify. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Belarusian_protests#Death...

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29-year-old Konstantin Shishmakov (Belarussian: Kanstantsin Shyshmakou), director of the Bagration Military History Museum in Vawkavysk, disappeared on 15 August. As a member of the election commission, he refused to sign the protocols, called his wife at about 5 pm and said: "I will not work here anymore, I am going home." But he never came home. Later he was found dead in a river. This was announced by the search and rescue squad "Angel".

Disgusting. I hope someone saves the archives and lists of members of security forces, so they can get what they deserve.

no hope. What you'd want to punish them for, in some specific places are considered as the skills in high demand. At the end they will run, say for example, to Russia, like this one for example from the Ukraine security forces:

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-berkut-commander-gets-second...

" the former Berkut riot-police commander in connection with the lethal suppression of the 2013-14 Euromaidan protests. Yet in Moscow, Kusyuk is now a colonel in the Russian Interior Ministry's OMON force and was seen on August 3 overseeing the arrests of demonstrators calling for fair municipal elections in the capital."

Telegram channels like https://t.me/terroristybelarusi collect personal information of state officials involved in atrocities. Makes for interesting reading, especially when you see photos of pretty-looking girls that tortured dozens of men and beat women out of consciousness.

Check this one [1], the first 4 photos are of the most famous torturer.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%...

Argh. Photos are shuffled constantly. It's the slightly fluffy brunette with curly hair.

If Belarus didn't sign or ratify it then what's the relevence? Not saying the situation isn't dire anyway but it seems like when the EU gets mad at the US for not acknowledging their toy court.

Belarus’s human rights abuses and crimes against humanity (as defined by the ICC) are highly relevant no matter whether its government signed the statute or not, or whether its government trolls consider it a “toy court”.

So then it should be easy to explain the relevance of the ICC in this situation instead of just saying it's "highly relevant".

Some countries have the Universal jurisdiction [1].

The idea is that whenever the crime happens, it can be tried in the country. Even US had a couple of cases where Universal jurisdiction was applied.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_jurisdiction

That doesn't really make the ICC relevant in a way worth acknowledging since by definition the same applies to many places at the same time.

Every country that implements Universal jurisdiction can try foreigners pretty much like ICC, yep.

Well, Belarus still has a KGB... that's nice. https://kgb.by

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