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mass violence, extremism, TJ, hum rights, intl law, tech, anthro, US/Asia/Cambodia, UNESCO Chair in Genocide, Director @Rutgers_CGHR
Mar 14, 2023 6 tweets 9 min read
🚨 NEW PUB ALERT 🚨

** The #ICC is opening war crimes cases against #Russia -- so why isn’t the #USA helping? **

Read my @latimes op-ed to find out…

latimes.com/opinion/story/… #AtrocityCrimes: Like others, U.S. politicians have decried Russia’s atrocity crimes in #Ukraine. President #Biden called it a #genocide. VP Harris recently said the U.S. has determined Russia has committed #CrimesAgainstHumanity.
theguardian.com/world/2023/feb…
Feb 19, 2023 9 tweets 6 min read
**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…