The International Criminal Court (MUS) in The Hague completed an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Russian-Georgian War, continued from July 1 to October 10, 2008. This was announced on December 16 by the prosecutor Mus Karim Khan, who acted as the prosecutor in the case.
Tbilisi filed a lawsuit against Russia in the Hague court in 2008. Within eight years (from 2008 to 2016), the Mus conducted a preliminary investigation, after which, in January 2016, the Khan’s Office began to study the materials in the case of the war in Georgia.
As a result, the court decided that four people were guilty: Mikhail Minzaev, who in 2005-2008 was the “Minister of Internal Affairs” of the so-called Republic of South Ossetia; Hamlet Guchmazov, who in 2008 was the “head of the pre -trial detention center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia”; David Sanakoev, in 2008 – “Commissioner of the President of South Ossetia on Human Rights”; Major General of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Borisov, participant in hostilities in Afghanistan and Chechnya. Since 2002, he was deputy commander of the Airborne Forces for airborne training. He died in November 2021.
According to the Mus, these people are responsible for illegal imprisonment, torture and inhuman appeal, humiliation of human dignity, taking hostages and illegal movement of civilians during the Russian-Georgian war.