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**Has Russia committed #genocide in #Ukraine?**

My op-ed in @thehill answers #yes. I discuss the politics of naming and differentiate between colloquial, legal, and social scientific understandings -- and their entailments. A thread 1/9
thehill.com/opinion/intern…
First, #colloquial understandings generally center on the killing of innocents. The Holocaust looms large as a prototype, but it can be applied widely to everything from abortion to AIDS. It can also encompass various sorts of mass atrocities 2/9
ushmm.org/genocide-preve…
Because of its capaciousness, the colloquial understanding can be misapplied and politically appropriated – as was the case with Russia’s baseless claims about genocide in Donbas. 3/9
theconversation.com/putins-claims-…
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Es ist wie immer. Irgendwas muss ja schief gehen.

Nachdem ich die Einleitung runter geredet habe, fiel mir dann auf, dass man mich nicht hört, obwohl es kurz vorher noch ging 😅

Sorry @JennyGnther! /TN
@JennyGnther Am 24.06. teilte mir die GenStaatsanw. München mit, wie der aktuelle Stand der Ermittlungen gegen den ehemaligen CSU-Abgeordneten Eduard Lintner ist.

Strenz und Lintner sind die 1. deutschen Politiker:innen, die ein lebenslanges Hausverbot im #Europarat erhalten haben. /TN Image
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