- The Click Times: US President Joe Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin is committing a “genocide” in Ukraine. In Ukraine, there are growing concerns about the killing of civilians and the possibility of a new Russian attack in the eastern part of the country. Biden told reporters in Iowa on Tuesday about plans to curb the rise in gasoline prices in the United States.
- This is the first time the US President, who previously believed Putin was a “war criminal,” used the word “genocide” to describe what happened in Ukraine.
- Biden later stuck to his characterization, saying Putin was “trying to erase the idea of being Ukrainian.”
“I called it genocide because it became increasingly clear that Putin was trying to erase the idea that he was Ukrainian, and there was more evidence,” Biden said Air Go to return to Washington. From Iowa I said when I was preparing to ride To Force One. - “We have lawyers decide internationally whether it’s an option, but to me it seems like that,” he said.
Biden’s comment was issued shortly after Ukraine accused Russian troops of attacking a station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk and killing more than 50 people, accusing images of corpses around the world on the streets of a town near Kieu. Continues to be done. - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky previously said that atrocities committed in Bucha and other parts of the capital are equivalent to “genocide.” Some European leaders have also urged Moscow to accuse Moscow of denying targeting civilians in its invasion of Moscow.
- However, in accordance with the long-standing Protocol, the Biden administration has discontinued the use of the term “genocide” because of the significant implications of its strict legal definition and claims.
Biden was previously asked by a reporter if the killing of Bucha was equivalent to a “genocide” and replied, “No, I think it’s a war crime.” - Experts warned against using the word “genocide” to describe what happened in Ukraine and said that alleged human rights abuses should be investigated first.
- “I think it deserves an investigation,” Juan Mendes, a former UN special adviser on the prevention of genocide, recently told Al Jazeera. “Ignoring the fact that so far many victims were clearly civilians was certainly a serious mistake and was probably targeted because they were Ukrainians-it is the origin of the country.
“But the fact that civilians are dying is not necessarily genocide.” - The UN Convention on Genocide defines genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group”, including killings and birth control measures.
In late March, the US State Department said it had found that some Russian forces had committed “war crimes” in Ukraine. - Foreign Minister Antony Blinken said at the time there had been numerous credible reports of “indiscriminate attacks and attacks targeting civilians” since the Russian invasion began in late February.
It is unclear what political effect Biden’s use of the word “genocide” would have.
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