1/ Russia violates Articles II and III-c of the Genocide Convention, as concluded by the recent analysis from the human rights experts who also studied Holocaust, investigated #UyghurGenocide, Daesh crimes against humanity, Boko Haram atrocities, Rohingya genocide, and much more
2/ The report was prepared by @TheRWCHR and @NewlinesInst; @yonahdiamond is the principal author. Among >30 contributors are @TimothyDSnyder, @EwelinaUO, @SusanBenesch, Prof. David Crane (founder of @ImpunityWatch, served as Chief Prosecutor for SCSL) newlinesinstitute.org/an-independent…
3/ The Genocide Convention, adopted by @UN, obliges State Parties not to commit genocide, prevent it and punish it. As of 2019, the convention was ratified by 152 states, including Russia.
The report concludes that... un.org/en/genocidepre…
4/ ...Russia bears State responsibility for direct and public incitement to commit genocide, a punishable act under Article III-c of the Genocide Convention.
@JuliaDavisNews shows numerous examples of hate speech in Russian state media. Here's one:
5/ And here's the extract from the article named "What Russia should do with Ukraine" published earlier by Russian-government-funded media RIA Novosti. Russian media love using the words "erase," "eliminate," and "eradicate" when speaking about Ukraine
6/ RISS, a Russian govt think tank, was absolutely OK with publishing a collection of essays called "Ukraine is Russia" in 2014, and the recent lunatic tweets from Dmitriy Medvedev are well in line with his statements from 2016
7/ And that's just the tiny fraction of such examples.
Hence, the report concludes that statements like that from Russian officials, when taken as a whole, point toward a “general plan” to destroy the Ukrainian national group in part, which demonstrates genocidal intent.
8/ Moreover, the report states that the pattern of Russian military atrocities in Ukraine, when viewed in their totality, falls under the definition of genocidal acts listed in Article II-a,b,c,d,e and can point toward genocidal intent against the Ukrainian group. Examples👇
9/ Genocidal acts under Article II:
a) Killing members of the group
b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
RU did: mass killings, bombardment of residential areas, deliberate attacks on shelters, and evacuation routes justsecurity.org/81143/the-osce…
10/ Article II-c: Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
RU did: systematically strike power sources...
Photo 1,2: destroyed CHPs in Okhtyrka and Sumy. Photo 3, libkos: disrupted water supply
11/ ...RU is targeting water supply, medical facilities, food warehouses, and aid distribution centers. This reveals a military strategy of deliberately inflicting fatal conditions on Ukrainian inhabitants.
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
12/ Article II-d: Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
The report indicates that rape and sexual violence might cause well-documented destruction through extreme trauma that can lead to suicides, STDs, and an inability or unwillingness to procreate...
13/ ...The scale of the reports of sexual violence and rape in RU-occupied areas shows a systematic pattern. Such cases were documented by @UN and @hrw representatives
hrw.org/news/2022/04/0…
14/ It is worth noting that some earlier reports (back in 2000) of @hrw from Chechnya show that using rape as a weapon of war is nothing new for Russia. #russiaisaterrorisstate #ArmUkraineNow
hrw.org/news/2000/03/2…
15/ I would add that the recent horrific news about the torture of Ukrainian POW might be falling into the same pattern as mass rapes and be not only a sickening war crime but also a violation of Article II-d of the Genocide Convention.
16/ Article II-e: Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
Russian officials don't even hide this fact.
17/ Article II-e: Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
Russian officials openly talk about the need for the transferred to Russia UA children to be "re-educated"
18/ From afterword of @IrwinCotler: "In summary, the report highlights our responsibility to prevent, and protect from, further mass atrocities and incitement to genocide. [..] we can no longer say that we do not know. We know, and we must act."
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