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
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.
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.
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…
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.
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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But yeah, I'm also annoyed with the Presidential office letting the dude sniff around. Alas, many Ukrainians still can't resist the charm of big foreign news magazine correspondents
I am seriously at my fucking limit. Are you kidding me? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? COMPARING THE DUDE WHO WAS PARTICIPATING IN [ETHNIC] RUSSIAN MARCHES TO THE PERSON WHO FOUGHT APARTHEID??? ARE YOU INSANE
I get why such ridiculous comparisons are made. Because people completely misunderstand the structure of oppression in Russia and how ethnic Russians have historically been a dominant group. Navalny is imprisoned due to a power struggle *within the dominant group.*
This is also why people are constantly misunderstanding the relationship between Ukrainians and Russians, that of the oppressed group fighting for liberation and the oppressor. That's why people still seriously use the term "Russophobia."
I honestly hate to see Russians winning prestigious prizes, grants, giving talks, writing books, all this BS, while so many bright Ukrainians are risking and sacrificing their lives fighting RU aggression
All these awarding bodies and research institutions are so full of shit.
None of them are innovative anymore. None of them are challenging the existing status quo.
It's not about intellectual courage. It's about patting each other's backs because you know someone who knows someone who is said to be genius because they graduated from that very prestigious place where those people who are now in the govt went too
This is the thread with the examples of Russians cheering on the deaths of Ukrainians. Mind you, RU started dehumanising us long before 2022 or even 2014, but that's a separate topic.
In no particular order, let's begin
Wall painting, although differing in style across Ukraine, was a traditional way to decorate houses in most regions; here are some photos of such traditional UA wall paintings collected in Dnipropetrovsk oblast in the 1920s. Source:[] libr.dp.ua/fullkr/index.p…
Traditionally, the paint for the walls consisted of clays of various shades mixed with natural dyes and pigments from berries, fruits, herbs or soot. With the discovery of aniline dyes, they were brought into use, too, although not everyone could afford those at the time.
With the development of the dye industry, such paintings also started to replace more expensive and labour-intensive tapestry and embroidered cloths (rushnyk) as decoration or became complementary to them.
Below are some examples of such paintings mimicking rushnyk and tapestry
In 2022, I had an opportunity to prepare a series of interviews with UA chemists for @ChemistryWorld and a follow-up later. Now, I’ll refer to those (and some more) articles to illustrate how one can support UA science. This applies not only to chemists 1/ chemistryworld.com/opinion/living…
Most of the suggestions are relevant to any field. Also, please consider sharing this thread because I feel like it is something often overlooked, all while scientific development is absolutely crucial, including for improving our defence capabilities in the future
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Let’s be clear, no country dedicates as much attention to science and education as it should. But some can afford more than others. The country surviving the invasion obviously faces some extra obstacles. That is on top of already existing problems 3/