Eugene Finkel's comments follow Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky's claim that Russia sought 'the elimination of the whole nation.'
l, who was born in Lviv, western Ukraine, and grew up in Israel, is an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies .thread that sparked much comment on Monday, he said that he had resisted applying the term the genocide. What changed his view was"more and more evidence" that Bucha"was not an exception" combined with,"more importantly, explicit official rhetoric," from Moscow.
As a genocide scholar I am an empiricist, I usually dismiss rhetoric. I also take genocide claims with a truckload of salt because activists apply it almost everywhere now. "I have read a lot of Russian nationalist rhetoric in my life," he wrote,"this is not some wild intellectual fantasy, it is a clear, actionable statement of intent by a state agency. The U.N. definition is problematic, but in this case it fits like a glove."that proving genocide"in legal terms is tougher."
Human Rights Watch said it had documented cases of Russian forces committing war crimes against civilians in occupied areas of the Chernihiv, Kharkiv, and Kyiv regions of Ukraine. The cases included rape, summary executions, and other forms of unlawful violence and threats.
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