Russia would have urged the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo to formally accuse Germany before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for the alleged crime of “genocide” in the Gaza Strip, in Palestine, as revealed by the American media. POLITICAL.
Intelligence officials and Western diplomats told the news portal that Russia, which is one of the most “prominent” allies of the Sandinista dictatorship, “probably pressured its allies in Nicaragua to use the so-called Genocide Convention of 1948 and persecute Germany before the ICJ.
One of the sources stated that the Nicaraguans “They have no reason to get involved in a conflict over the Middle East”.
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The informants said that Nicaragua’s accusation against Germany “surprised many observers in Berlin and beyond,” since a week before the dictatorial couple filed the lawsuit, on March 1, the German Foreign Ministry said that Both nations maintained a “close friendship.”
“Since the ICJ has not established that a genocide occurred, Germany cannot be guilty of acting as an accomplice. Furthermore, there is no precedent for accusing a third country of responsibility for war crimes committed by another,” the experts explained.
Officials say that although Nicaragua’s case is “baseless,” the genocide accusation before the ICJ is “a humiliation” for Germany. “Germany’s crimes against humanity during World War II brought them to the Genocide Convention and (the country) has spent decades trying to convince the world that it adheres to the highest standards of human rights and international law.” », they add.
However, Western informants felt that Vladimir Putin, Russia’s dictator, “seems to delight in offending, especially, the Germans. “Humiliation may well have been part of the calculation.”
For the moment, the officials pointed out that Russia “will use the Nicaragua case against Germany and the separate genocide process initiated by South Africa against Israel to undermine the legitimacy of the court” and, in addition, “argue through its propaganda channels that Russia “He is a victim of a double standard.”
«Russia will say: ‘you are pushing cases against us but you are supporting Israel for the same thing. “This undermines the authority of the ICJ,” said one of the informants.
Ortega accuses Germany of committing “genocide”
The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo accused Germany before the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, Holland, for alleged “acts of genocide”, as an attempt to “distract” the world from the recent accusations presented against it by the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua (GHREN), which directly accused the ruling couple of committing “crimes against humanity” and “human rights violations” against the Nicaraguan people.
Through a statement, released on March 1, in the official media, the couple in power announced the initiation of a lawsuit against the German government, because it committed “violations of the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment.” of the Crime of Genocide, to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols, to the ‘intransgressible’ principles of international humanitarian law and other peremptory norms of general international law, in relation to the occupied Palestinian territory, in particular the Gaza Strip ».
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The Sandinista regime assures in its statement that “Germany has provided political, financial and military support to Israel knowing, at the time of authorization, that the military equipment would be used to commit serious violations of international law.”
On April 11, the Ortega dictatorship ordered the closure of the Nicaraguan embassy in Berlin, Germany, a source from the defunct diplomatic headquarters confirmed to the German Press Agency (DPA) and also made official as ambassador concurrent in Germany, based in Austria, to Sabra Amari Murillo Centeno, in the midst of the controversy generated by the Managua regime before the international court.
