While the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court have not (yet) tried Russia for genocide, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has delivered an early verdict on humanitarian law violations and war crimes. Russia’s March 9 attack on the Mariupol Maternity House and Children’s Hospital was “deliberate,” came with “no effective warning,” and constitutes a “war crime,” the 110-page report stated. Also, its March 16 attack on the Drama Theater in Mariupol, which was “clearly marked as housing children” and in which as many as 1,300 civilians had taken refuge, was also deliberate and constituted a war crime, the report said.
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