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Who was aware of these atrocities under their command and didn't take steps to stop them. they were able to chase command responsibility all the way up to putin but in that case deliberate bombing hospitals, schools, marketplaces and apartment buildings. here others will be doing a similar analysis here. what's interesting is that there's no way putin can deny knowledge of the atrocities now everybody has seen them, but the question is what's he doing about them. and rather than saying oh, my goodness, these are horrible, i'm going to order russian soldiers to stop immediately, he's doing the ...

Top levels to establish their command responsibility for the commission of these crimes. that's a very, very tough pull in an international criminal tribunal. however, in this case, vladimir putin himself keeps incriminating himself every day. he leaves footprints all over the place as to his leadership and command of this entire operation. he also is showing no evidence whatsoever of trying to prevent this criminal conduct or of punishing any russian military who do commit these crimes. and that is very indicative of liability under command and superior responsibility. so i think that's going...

Civilian areas. >> joining us is the former u.s. ambassador at large for war crimes issues. how hard a job do you think he'll have in trying to find the chain of command for any war crimes or crimes against humanity that have been committed here? >> first, that was an excellent interview you had with him yesterday and very, very helpful. the difficulty will not be that difficult with respect to the top down character of this war of aggression. it's clear that vladimir putin is in control. he has superior responsibility. he has a group of generals who are clearly exercising command responsibili...

In the end, prominent military and political leaders were brought to justice. this is the bosnian serb leader radovan karadzic. no—one thinks he killed with his own hands, but he was convicted of commissioning the crimes of others, of command responsibility, and will never be released from prison. could vladimir putin face a similarfate? only, says one prominent war crimes prosecutor, if he is charged specifically with the crime of aggression, and no international court in existence today yet has the legal competence to do that. a number of governments are closely examining how you would cre...

We're seeing in mariupol. there's no question war crimes are taking place. one of the big questions is who is responsible. certainly the people on the ground are responsible. but the international criminal court, the most likely forum to prosecute these war crimes, it's going to look up the chain of command and it will look as far up as it can go. ideally you get a written order to go do this and do that, but it's rare to get that kind of evidence. in terms of establishing so-called command responsibility, in other words the commander criminally responsible for these kinds of atrocities, you n...