Amid Russian military atrocities in Ukraine, U.S. senators have begun drafting a bill that would allow courts to try war crimes cases even if neither party is a U.S. citizen.. It is reported by The New York Times.

Bilateral Senators Reach Agreement to Prepare and Amend War Crimes Act 1996. They plan to give U.S. courts the power to try cases of war crimes and atrocities committed abroad, even if neither party is a U.S. citizen.. The brutal crimes of the Russian military against the civilian population of Ukraine pushed the senators to this idea..

The idea is to identify, arrest and prosecute war criminals, even if they committed crimes in other countries and then came to the United States.

The bill was inspired by the leading legislators of the US Senate Judiciary Committee, Republican Charles E.. Grassley for Iowa and Democrat Richard J. Durbin from Illinois. They are currently negotiating with members of the House of Representatives about a possible accompanying bill..

“The United States should not be a safe haven for war criminals who want to escape justice in their home country,” said Senator Grassley, in a commentary for The Times.. “This bill sends a strong message that people who commit war crimes are not welcome here and should be punished, no matter where their offense was committed or who they were victims of.”.

Senator Durbin said the legislation would fill " ) laws"

" We have the authority and responsibility to ensure that the United States is not used as a safe haven by the perpetrators of these heinous crimes,"

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The War Crimes Act, passed by Congress in 1996, incorporates part of the international law on war into domestic American law..

This act made it a crime prosecutable by the Department of Justice for committing a " Serious violations include the deliberate killing of civilians, torture, biological experiments, and "

Recall that in early April, the whole world was shocked by the atrocities committed by Russian invaders in the territory of Bucha, Irpen and Gostomel, Kyiv region. Civilians were found tortured or shot, many bodies were in mass graves, and many women and girls were raped by the Russian military. And while Russian propaganda is trying to convince that the soldiers of the Russian army do not commit any war crimes on the territory of Ukraine, the infidels themselves in telephone conversations boast of their atrocities.