Senate debates
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
Questions without Notice
Ukraine
2:49 pm
Jacqui Lambie (Tasmania, Jacqui Lambie Network) | Hansard source
Minister, article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court states that it is a war crime to intentionally direct:
… attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities; …
Putin's men are killing kids. I don't doubt they're doing it on his orders and I don't doubt you do either, so I'm asking you: are you going to have the courage to come out and call him what he is? Putin is a war criminal. When is Australia's foreign minister going to call him what he is? He is a war criminal. Call it!
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