 As Vladimir Putin continues to pound civilian targets in Ukraine, a human rights coalition is recording each war crime ready for the day when the perpetrators face justice. The Tribunal for Putin (T4P) represents 24 groups undertaking exhaustive work to hold the Russian president and his accomplices accountable for tens of thousands of acts of brutality. Ideally this would be at The Hague in the Netherlands, and while it may not happen soon, the coalition has resolved to help build a solid legal framework, even if takes decades. At present, there are more than 8,700 deaths on the T4P's live system from more than 44,900 incidents — with the toll rising every day. Each is recorded on a vast database and mapped to the location where it was recorded, with the intention that every single one is investigated. Denys Volokha, media director of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, one of the tribunal's three trustee groups, wants the international community to show the perpetrators that 'there is no impunity for them'. The groups have joined forces because the scale of the work would be a challenge for any country — let alone one under wartime conditions. 'We have more than 44,800 cases, mainly involving Russian shelling and missile attacks on residential areas, and have identified more than 8,000 victims across the different regions of Ukraine,' Mr Volokha said. A scorched residential block in the neighbourhood of northern Saltivka which lies in the Kharkiv region (Picture: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group) Russian forces have left a scene of devastation in the Ruski Tyshky village in the Kharkiv region (Picture: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group) 'We are part of Tribunal for Putin, so we are united with the Ukrainian Centre for Civil Liberties and human rights organisations all over Ukraine to d){kind=link}
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As Vladimir Putin continues to pound civilian targets in Ukraine, a human rights coalition is recording each war crime ready for the day when the perpetrators face justice.
The Tribunal for Putin (T4P) represents 24 groups undertaking exhaustive work to hold the Russian president and his accomplices accountable for tens of thousands of acts of brutality.
Ideally this would be at The Hague in the Netherlands, and while it may not happen soon, the coalition has resolved to help build a solid legal framework, even if takes decades.
At present, there are more than 8,700 deaths on the T4P’s live system from more than 44,900 incidents – with the toll rising every day.