Ukrainian Soldiers – War Criminals, Torturing Russian Prisoners of War

Peter Koenig

RT Germany and Peter Koenig
27 March 2022

While President Biden is accusing President Putin as a war criminal, he seems to conveniently forget how his predecessors all the way back to 1960s, to and including Lindon Johnson have committed directly or by proxy war crimes around the world, in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Egypt, Korea, Vietnam, Yemen --- and the list is almost endless.

American initiated wars and conflicts have in the last 60 years killed between 20 and 30 million people. One wonders, who are the war criminals? Where do most war criminals abound as Presidents? -  the short answer is: In the freedom-loving United States of America. And they are literally all getting away with murder.

Western media fully ignore this fact when they repeat Biden’s accusation calling Mr. Putin a War Criminal and worse.

The West, perhaps out of desperation, since the end is near, has become a dystopian, lie-infested world, beset by untruths, censoring free-speech, deleting the truth for lies and more. Unknown in recent history.

Since Western war criminals literally are getting away with murder, Ukraine soldiers have taken a lesson and become some of the most atrocious war criminals in recent history. As reported by Russia Today, Germany, 27 March 2022, they are torturing Russian military prisoners of war in the most brutal ways, in total disregard of the Geneva Conventions on Prisoners of War; see this 3-min video by RT Germany https://de.rt.com/kurzclips/video/134788-video-soll-misshandlung-russischer-kriegsgefangener-durch-ukrainische-truppen-zeigen/.

The Geneva Convention on Prisoners of war dates back to 29 July 1929. It became effective in June 1931. The Convention has since been renewed, updated and adjusted on 12 August 1949, as a UN Human Rights Instrument – the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. It entered into force on 21 October 1950.

Article 3 of the Convention, specifies that Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated. Any unlawful act or omission by the Detaining Power causing death or seriously endangering the health of a prisoner of war in its custody is prohibited, and will be regarded as a serious breach of the present Convention. See this https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/geneva-convention-relative-treatment-prisoners-war .

Soldiers of the Ukrainian army are certainly not abiding by this law and must be held accountable by an International Court of Law judging war crimes.

Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he has worked for over 30 years on water and environment around the world. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for online journals and is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and  co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020)

Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
He is also is a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.