Ukraine Will Turn Yanukovych Case Over To The Hague
The whereabouts of Ukraine's ousted president Viktor Yanukovych remain unkown, but the country's opposition-led parliament says any war-crimes prosecution of the former leader would come in The Hague's International Criminal Court.
The opposition, which took control after Yanukovych fled the capital, has not yet formed a government. But its leaders have said they want to ensure the former president and other officials are held accountable for the deaths of protesters during months of demonstrations.
NPR's Peter Kenyon reports for our Newscast unit from Kiev:
"The resolution represents an effort to grant the international criminal court in the Hague jurisdiction over the deaths of protesters in Kiev's Independence Square. The health ministry says 88 people were killed. Yanukovych remains at large, last seen in the pro-Russian Crimean peninsula.
"The new government remains unformed, meanwhile, with an economic crisis looming. Calls for an urgent donor's conference are getting positive responses, but no date has been announced.
"And tensions with Russia are on the rise. There are growing calls in pro-Russian eastern Uukraine for Moscow to step in and protect Russian citizens in Ukraine, but world leaders, including Russia, continue to call for a unified Ukraine."