#Russia_War: The evidence of Bucha is enough to invoke that Russian forces committed war crime by targeting civilians. Genocide apparently does not apply as the crimes were not committed by military forces originating from the territory where the killing takes place. Russian⤵️
forces are an aggressor who killed Ukrainian civilians. The Genocide Convention specifies two main elements: 1) A mental element: the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such"; 2) A physical element, with five acts:⤵️
a) Killing members of the group (ethnic, religious etc.); b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures⤵️
intended to prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. The killing of civilians in Bucha & overall in Ukraine are warcrime committed by the Russian side. But the int. lawyers will find it difficult to codify them as genocide.
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