INVESTIGATE COMPLICITY: Demand the ICC Probe External Actions Enabling War Crimes Against Civilians, specifically, actions by Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and Elon Musk that aided and abetted Russian War Crimes in Ukraine, and US War crimes against civilian vessels on the high seas. 

To: The Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (The Hague, Netherlands)
Petition Purpose: To formalize an investigation into policies, tech disruptions, and unprovoked maritime strikes that facilitate or constitute crimes against humanity and the arbitrary deprivation of civilian life.

The Statement of Urgency

We, the undersigned global citizens, petition the International Criminal Court (ICC) to expand its active investigations into the Situation in Ukraine and broader maritime jurisdictions. We demand accountability for external state policies and technological manipulations that actively facilitate the targeting of civilian infrastructure, as well as unprovoked, lethal military actions taken against civilian vessels on the high seas. Under the Rome Statute, no entity or state official operates with impunity when their direct actions aid, abet, or mirror the execution of war crimes.

The Grounding Evidence

1. Aiding and Abetting Through Technological Sabotage

The Sabotage of Defenses: The deliberate restriction and throttling of Starlink satellite terminal speeds used by Ukrainian defense forces has directly blinded localized air defense networks and disabled protective aerial drone systems. This was done with the full knowledge that doing so would facilitate war crimes, or with conscious disregard of its inevitable outcome.
A Shooting Gallery for Civilians: Human rights organizations have warned that removing these operational limits turns civilian spaces—including hospitals, schools, and residential sectors—into defenseless targets for targeted missile attacks.
The Intelligence Vacuum: The simultaneous withholding of critical missile-warning data and military intelligence from forces protecting civilian centers strips populations of early warning systems, effectively facilitating the kinetic bombardment of non-combatants. Under Article 25(3)(c) of the Rome Statute, providing the means or removing the shield for the commission of a crime constitutes aiding and abetting.

This throttling of Starshield and the simultaneous denial of intelligence constitutes an affirmative operational intervention into a live battlespace. The decision-makers possessed intimate, real-time knowledge of two incontrovertible facts: first, that Russian forces systematically and routinely target civilian population centers; and second, that severing Ukraine’s telemetry would render those civilian sites indefensible. When you remove the locks from a door knowing a murderer is standing on the porch, you do not get to claim the status of a neutral bystander. If an executive or a head of state intentionally strips away an active defensive barrier with the full awareness that intentional civilian slaughter and suffering will immediately follow, international law recognizes this not as prudent diplomacy, but as willful facilitation.
2. Direct Violations of Maritime Law and International Crimes

Unprovoked Attacks on Vessels: International concern has mounted over unprovoked, lethal military strikes conducted by United States forces against vessels on the high seas, notably in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.
Mass Casualties Without Armed Conflict: United Nations human rights experts have documented that these unprovoked actions have resulted in scores of civilian deaths. Executed entirely outside the context of self-defense or active armed conflict, these actions completely bypass judicial oversight.
Crimes Against Humanity at Sea: UN experts warn that utilizing military forces to carry out systematic, lethal strikes against civilian-occupied vessels—often utilizing perfidious methods like disguised aircraft—amounts to an arbitrary deprivation of life and constitutes a potential crime against humanity under international law.
Our Formal Demands to the ICC Prosecutor

We respectfully call upon the Office of the Prosecutor to utilize its independent proprio motu powers under the Rome Statute to:

Investigate Tech Complicity: Open an immediate inquiry into whether the sudden, unannounced throttling of Starlink capabilities and withholding of intelligence metrics meet the legal threshold for criminal assistance or complicity in war crimes against Ukrainian civilians.
Examine High-Seas Violations: Launch a formal assessment into lethal maritime strikes against civilian boats, identifying whether these state actions constitute systematic, widespread attacks on civilian populations.
Issue Warrants for All Enablers: Ensure that accountability is applied universally, pursuing arrest warrants not just for the kinetic perpetrators on the ground, but for any external actors whose material decisions consciously enable the slaughter of innocent populations.

For more information on Russian war crimes, see here.

To aid Ukraine in its war of self-defense, you can contribute at the official Ukraine web site here. 

No policy is above human rights. No state is immune to international law. Sign to demand a thorough, impartial investigation.