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Speaker 1: Welcome back to It Could Happen Here, a podcast about

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Speaker 1: world stuff fallen apart, putting it back together, all that

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Speaker 1: good stuff. Today we're actually covering something that's at the

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Speaker 1: intersection of all of that, both how fucked up things

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Speaker 1: are and the attempt to make them more just, more equitable,

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Speaker 1: less nightmarish. We're talking about war crimes, the International Criminal Court,

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Speaker 1: and most specifically the warrant that was just issued for

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Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin's arrest, which is something you've probably heard about

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Speaker 1: on the internet. People have various takes on this in

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Speaker 1: order to kind of talk about what's actually been done,

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Speaker 1: what it actually means, and sort of the history of

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Speaker 1: attempts to hold the leaders of nations to account for

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Speaker 1: war crimes. I want to talk to Nick Waters. Nick,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Higher Nick, you and I have

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Speaker 1: some connections outside of this. First off, you're you're here

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Speaker 1: on the show today because you work in an investigatory

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Speaker 1: investigative capacity. Geez, can you tell that I'm not used

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Speaker 1: to waking up this early for Belling Cat where we

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Speaker 1: both work together. Your focus has been primarily on war crimes.

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Speaker 1: You've been covering Ukraine lately, but you have a pretty

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Speaker 1: wide purview and a pretty wide base of experience, including

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Speaker 1: crimes in Libya. Um and yeah, I wanted to talk

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Speaker 1: to you a little bit. First off, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: Thanks very much, mate, Um of behind the Bastards. I

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Speaker 1: have the largest knife I could find in this place

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Speaker 1: mean I thought I should have one just in case.

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Speaker 1: That's that's good, I've got um. Well, yeah, I actually

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Speaker 1: am more or less knifeless here. I do have a

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Speaker 1: nine millimeter in the desk, but somewhat more limited span

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Speaker 1: of uses. Now, Nick, you and I. You and I

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Speaker 1: have shared one of the strongest bonds that two men

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Speaker 1: can share, which is eating some really delicious a rep us.

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Speaker 1: But we also share an interest in the somewhat difficult

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Speaker 1: history of attempts from our species to kind of grapple

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Speaker 1: with the nature of war, crimes, of acts of genocide

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Speaker 1: and hold people to account for them. I kind of

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Speaker 1: think before we get into what's happened with Putin, we

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Speaker 1: should talk about what the ICC is and what its

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Speaker 1: history comes from. Because this it actually dates back a

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Speaker 1: little over one hundred years, attempts to make the ICC.

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Speaker 1: I think nineteen nineteen was the first convention in which

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Speaker 1: really have some sort of court put together to attempt

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Speaker 1: to hold leaders and individuals to account for committing war crimes. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a familiar with the kind of the very

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Speaker 1: long history of attempts at international justice. Suffice to say

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Speaker 1: that so far hasn't worked out quite how I think

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Speaker 1: international Justice good idea hasn't happened yet pretty much. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean there's been lots of yeah, lots of agreements obviously,

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Speaker 1: other agreements about how not to kill people in the

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Speaker 1: as part of that, like Roman Statue which created the ICC. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was agreed in nineteen ninety eight. So yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: I need to say, like before we kind of get

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Speaker 1: because I know all the lawyers out there will be

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Speaker 1: like angry about it. So nick I wanted to talk

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Speaker 1: So Russia doesn't recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC. So

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Speaker 1: But in other ways it's it's a big deal in

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Speaker 1: is that is a war crime, that is an act

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Speaker 1: of genocide. Yeah, so I think the actual crime is

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Speaker 1: recorded about sixteen thousand cases of forcible deportations of children.

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Speaker 1: That's not like a final number, just like the death

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Speaker 1: put him on trial, and you know, he becomes like

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Speaker 1: It's still worth doing this. And that's I think where

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Speaker 1: The fact that this is happening at all, as flawed,

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Speaker 1: as imperfect as the whole and it's you know, people

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Speaker 1: number of different acts of their states and militaries. But like,

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Speaker 1: It's definitely a meaningful like it's very much like a

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Speaker 1: statement of intent from the ICC, and especially from the

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Speaker 1: and he's kind of like, as far as I can tell,

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Speaker 1: good a note as any to end on, Nick, Do

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Speaker 1: you want to direct anybody towards um place they can

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Speaker 1: can donate or something they can or a place they

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Speaker 1: can go to read up more on this series other

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Speaker 1: issues of international criminal justice. I mean, yeah, I'd direct

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Speaker 1: people to to Bellencato coom, which is who I work

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Speaker 1: for my twitters and non school Waters eighty nine. I

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Speaker 1: I don't know. You may, yeah, but I past occasion

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Speaker 1: every so often, But yeah, felling out the com would

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Speaker 1: be you wor'd recommend that's where like our work is anyway. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: Nick Waters, thank you so much for coming on, for

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Speaker 1: lending your expertise here. That's going to do it for

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Speaker 1: word here so many times. Have a lovely day, everybody.

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