The US State Department has deleted evidence of Vladimir Putin’s war crimes as there is an global arrest warrant on the Russian leader.
The US State Department has given Putin one “hell of a favour” deleting Russia’s war crimes since the invasion started on 24 February 2022.
The evidence was held on a secure database, Yale sources told the Independent which is code named “Caesar.”
“The 1996 Jones War Crimes Act, a federal criminal statute, prohibits all violations of the Geneva Convention as part of US criminal law. It is a war crime under Geneva to destroy evidence of a war crime,” the Yale expert told The Independent.
Elon Musk cut funding to the Yale University’s Humanitarian Research department which had been compiling an enormous and complex database of war crimes committed by Russian troops which includes some 35,000 children kidnapped from occupied regions in Ukraine, in February.
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Yales University’s department works closely with Save Ukraine who are an amazing charity that has repatriated more than 600 children from Russia.
Save Ukraine’s website states that Russia is deliberately trying to “erase their identity, turning them into hostages of its policies” and they are “depriving Ukrainian children of their freedom.”
The Independent reported a Yale source said the US State Department deleted the evidence of war crimes, and this would have been used to help Save Ukraine bring the kidnapped children back home.
This evidence was to be used to prosecute those responsible for the kidnapping of the children, including the Russian dictator, Putin.
”It is unclear whether it was by accident or intent, but it may reveal or it may cause potential criminal liability for the Trump administration, given international prohibitions against the destruction of war crimes evidence,” the Yale insider told The Independent.
The Trump administration could be liable for deleting the evidence of war crimes which was to be used by the International Criminal Court.
Yale researchers and solicitors were also forced to stop sharing evidence and data with the European Union who are investigating the war crimes of the kidnapped children through EUROPOL.
“They [the state department] deleted the crime base on the arrest warrant on Putin… whether they did it by accident, or they did it on purpose it’s a hell of a favour,” the Yale source told The Independent.
“The worst part of this is not that it screws up prosecution, that’s bad. The worst part is that it screws up our active efforts to try to get the kids back across the front line, physically,” they added
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