The worse thing about #Bucha #Буча is that it is only beginning. We will see more news like that soon. We need to record everything and ensure justice. Last week I talked to @kelly_zvobgo and asked several ignorant questions about war crimes, genocide, and justice...🧵
Genocide is not just killings. It is a set of abuses, anxiety, sterilization – anything that would help to destroy a racial, ethnic, national or other group in whole or in part. So you don’t need mass killings for it to be genocide...
You don’t need it to be ethnic or racial group being targeted. So if lawyers and judges could establish that Putin intended to destroy in whole or in part the Ukrainian civic nation, that its national identity was targeted, this can be recognised as genocide
I asked "What kind of documentation should Ukrainians collect right now?".
The photographic and video evidence and getting it out of the country is very valuable because records can always be taken or destroyed....
The photographic and video evidence and getting it out of the country is very valuable because records can always be taken or destroyed....
Then, just the narratives of people, especially older people and the harms of their experience, because we don’t know if they end up surviving this conflict.
Any ability to make a digital preserve in the cloud, send it abroad or to be able to get them out with people as they are crossing the border will be vital to create this critical mass of documentation and testimony for later use.
We also talked about "transitional justice" which has 4 pillars: truth, justice, reparation, guarantees of non-repetition or non-recurrence. We talked "Truth Commissions" and sanctions. Video of our 60 mins talk with @kelly_zvobgo is here:
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