For me and my colleagues ' who since 1998 have worked in securing forensic evidence of these types of crimes in Afghanistan, Guatemala and other places ' it is apparent that identifying and collecting evidence of international crimes like killing civilians during conflict is beyond the capabilities and resources of local police crime scene teams, criminal investigators and prosecutors. This means that in the case of the Ukraine war, a new, unbiased judiciary and investigatory organization will likely need to be set up to handle the claims and questions about tens of thousands of victims on all sides. This will take decades of work and cost a large amount of money, requiring the support of rich countries. War crimes, under international law, happen when civilians, prisoners of war, hospitals or schools ' essentially anyone and anything that isn't involved in military activities ' are targeted during a conflict. Both the Ukrainian government and Donetsk People's Republic, a Ukrainian...
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