The work of the International Criminal Court is essential, but it's not enough. That's why I ask Canada to also think about other possibilities to strengthen how perpetrators are brought to justice; international criminal courts focus only on several cases, and we don't know what cases they will choose for investigation.
For us, it's very important to stop the cycle of impunity and to bring to justice all of the people who committed these war crimes by their own hands—all commanders, all political leadership—and who created the situation whereby these war crimes became possible. It's very important.
I have documented war crimes for eight years already. We have united in other efforts with Russian human rights defenders and with human rights defenders from Moldova and Georgia. We identified the same people who committed war crimes in Chechnya, Transnistria, Abkhazia, Ossetia, Crimea and in Donbass. I'm sure that if we united our efforts with human rights defenders from Syria, we would find them in Syria.
It's stated that Russia uses war as a tool to conduct its geopolitical goals. Russia wasn't held accountable for what it did in Chechnya. Russia wasn't held accountable for what it did in Abkhazia, Ossetia or Syria, even when it used chemical weapons against civilians.
It's time to stop this cycle of impunity. In addition to the International Criminal Court, we have to support the idea that the Ukrainian president announced yesterday to create an international hybrid tribunal. It would be very good if Canada decided to lead this process and to create such a coalition, which could bring this idea into force and provide justice for all of the victims of war crimes in Ukraine.
Thank you.