![]() Prime among these examples of propaganda has been the call on the state news agency RIA Novosti for the “liquidation” of Ukrainians opposed to its invasion (that would be virtually all of them). Many experts have pointed to the dehumanising Russian state propaganda against Ukrainians as evidence of intent to wipe out a group of people. “As a scholar of the Holocaust and a descendant of Holocaust survivors, I am well aware of the need for caution, and in the past have criticised the governments of many post-Soviet states – including Ukraine, where I was born – for misusing the term. The massacre was perpetrated by the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska under the command of Ratko Mladić (Photo: Armin Durgut/AP)Įugene Finkel, an international affairs expert at Johns Hopkins University declared: “Genocide is unfolding before our eyes,” in the Washington Post. A Bosnian Muslim woman holds a banner with pictures of victims of the Srebrenica massacre during a peaceful protest in Sarajevo, Bosnia. General Richard Dannatt, the former chief of the general staff in the UK, said on Tuesday the situation in Ukraine was “increasingly” looking like a example of genocide. So at what point do the killings in Ukraine officially become genocide under the UN convention? And should the use of a simple word alter how we perceive such deaths? There are military experts, historians and legal experts who agree with Zelensky. ![]() ![]() In the present UN convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. “It has become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of being able to be Ukrainian,” the US president said.īut these declaration raises a number of questions. On Tuesday this week, Joe Biden agreed it was genocide. ![]()
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