![]() The International Rescue Committee (IRC) aid agency last week said Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s grain exports would increase global prices and increase food shortages in some of the world’s poorest countries. Ukraine could really be a test case here.” I think Ukraine, with the political interest and the realpolitik, could really genuinely be the first case for starvation. ![]() He said: “We are seeing a lot of momentum. The crime was in 2019 widened to include starvation in non-international armed conflicts, such as civil wars. The crime has so far never been brought to prosecution, but he said the idea had gained traction. He said: “We believe very strongly that through conduct in the offensives that we have documented, starvation crimes are fairly clear and we hope to provide the ICC with a submission so that they may take it forward.” Yousuf Syed Khan, a senior lawyer with an international human rights law firm, called Global Rights Compliance, has been working with Ukraine’s prosecutor general to document suspected crimes. The Rome statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the legal basis of the Hague-based body, defines a starvation war crime as: “Intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare, by depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including by willfully preventing relief supplies as provided for in the Geneva Conventions.” Investigators said the Kremlin’s weaponisation of food had ranged from attacking food queues to blockading grain exports, destroying farming infrastructure and diverting captured Ukrainian supplies to Russia. The United Nations said Russia has been carrying out an average of one attack every other day since Moscow pulled out of the international Black Sea deal to transport Ukraine’s grain to the world’s markets. ![]() Last week, Russia continued to strike Ukrainian grain export ports on the Danube river and in the Odesa region. The targeting of Ukraine’s agriculture, its farmland and grains stocks, and even civilians searching for food, amounts to a weaponisation of starvation and a clear war crime, investigators argue. War crimes investigators say they aim to bring the first international prosecution for starvation following Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian food supplies and farming. ![]()
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