Ukraine war: Amal Clooney calls for UN penalties for war crimes

Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, wife of George Clooney, spoke at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York on Wednesday. The gathering discussed how Russia could be held accountable for violations of martial law. In Amal Clooney’s eyes, the alleged war crimes that could have been committed by Russian soldiers in Ukraine were also made possible by turning a blind eye to human rights violations in other countries. Because many perpetrators would assume that they would often get away with it. She cited crimes in Darfur, Myanmar, Yemen and Syria as examples. The actions in Bucha in Ukraine reminded her of massacres in Syria. The images of killed Ukrainian civilians from Bucha, a suburb of the capital Kyiv, caused horror around the world in early April.