MOSCOW. Sept 3 (Interfax-AVN) - A consultative council at a senior Russian criminal investigation agency considered a proposal to take international judicial action "against persons who had organized and persons who had committed murders of Russian citizens in South Ossetia" during the August 2008 conflict, the agency spokesman said on Wednesday.
Vladimir Markin, spokesman for the Prosecution Service Investigation Committee (SKP), was referring to the agenda for an SKP consultative council meeting that, he said, included "prospects in terms of criminal law and international law for the criminal investigations by the SKP into crimes against the Russian peacekeepers and the civilian population of South Ossetia in the course of the aggression of the Georgian armed forces against South Ossetia in August 2008."
"In the course of discussion of prospects for the prosecution of persons who had organized and persons who had committed murders of Russian citizens in South Ossetia, speakers advocated the use of all legal means on the territory of the states that were parties to the conflict," Markin told Interfax.
The council also discussed a proposal to take the matter to the International Criminal Court, the UN International Court of Justice, and the European Court of Human Rights, he said.
The meeting also heard other proposals for the internationalization of criminal action against those held responsible for killings in the conflict, the spokesman said.