The International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor said she had enough evidence to open an investigation into alleged war crimes during the 2008 conflict between Russia and Georgia, reports the International Business Times.
The preliminary evidence investigated by the chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s team suggests that at least 113 ethnic Georgian civilians may have been killed by South Ossetian militant forces.
Speaking on her preliminary investigations to ICC judges, Ms Bensouda said,
“There is a reasonable basis to believe that the war crimes of wilful killing, pillage and destruction of enemy’s property, as well as crimes against humanity consisting of acts of murder, forcible transfer of population and persecution were committed against the ethnic Georgian population in South Ossetia… by South Ossetian forces.”