ICC Complaint Against Western Companies Supplying The Russian War Crimes Machine

Note: We are seeking Universal Jurisdiction by all countries and international bodies against the war crimes and crimes against humanity included in this ICC complaint. Some of these companies and the people running them are not in ICC member States. In many cases the ICC may still have jurisdiction because Ukraine is an ICC member state.

Since the beginning of Russia’s all out invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia has been sanctioned extensively. However, high end machine tools and the software and technical support services required to maintain them have for the most part not been sanctioned and are mostly provided by companies in Europe and East Asia. Machine tools and software have military and non military applications, but since Russia’s full mobilization at the start of the war, All machine tools are only used for military production. The machine tools, software, and technical support services have been mostly used to manufacture long range Russian missiles (although now they are being used for artillery production). These missiles are almost exclusively used to directly target civilians in places like apartment buildings and schools or to destroy critical infrastructure that civilians need to stay alive such as power grids in the winter which the civilians use for heat.

The important points are:

1. European and East Asian companies provide machine tools, software, and Technical Support to Russia.

2. Russia only uses these tools and services for the military.

3. The Russian War Crimes Machine uses them to build weapons to commit war crimes since these weapons are almost always targeted at civilians.

4. The companies providing them with these tools and services are aware that they are committing these war crimes with the Russian War Crimes Machine (or else they are bending over backward to not figure out what’s going on).

This can’t be stressed enough. Firms in places like the EU, UK, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan provide constant updates and service these highly specialized machine tools. They see into the manufacturing process because they the hands of their customers every step of the way. A good analogy would be if you ran a poison gas company during World War 2 and making tons of poison gas for several years that you ship to camps, where you also have installed special shower heads to spray the gas in showers. In this analogy you also send out technicians to fix the shower heads every time they have a technical issue. At the end of the war would the Allies have tried you for war crimes and crimes against humanity? The obvious answer is yes and it should be the same for these people and companies who are directly providing Russia with the capabilities to attack civilians. All equipment and services must be stopped immediately and everyone involved must be prosecuted. Unfortunately stopping all of this will not immediately destroy the Russian War Crimes Machine but it will over time cause lost of problems for them.

This ICC complaint calls for prosecution of everyone involved in providing the Russian War Crimes Industrial Complex with the equipment and continued support and maintenance services for that equipment to produce the weapons Russia uses for the deliberate targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure with the explicit goal of mass murdering civilians. This should include, but not be limited to employees, owners, and executives of the companies providing such equipment and services along with prosecutions of the companies themselves. This complaint also asks that in cases where the ICC does not have jurisdiction that the ICC fully cooperate with those who do have universal jurisdiction and can investigate and prosecute. Thank you!

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