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Did Russian forces carry out genocide in Bucha, Ukraine?

The mayor of the town of Bucha confirmed that Russian forces killed more than 400 civilians in an attack on April 1. In the wake of the tragedy, gruesome images of bodies strewn on city streets surfaced, and the president of Ukraine called it “genocide.” Rate this story: https://santv.co/3rxAN3y. “They are lying there,” said Valadyslav Minchenko, a Ukrainian volunteer collecting bodies in Bucha. “Some of them shot in the head. Some of them blindfolded, with tied hands.” On ‘Face the Nation,’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the events in Bucha “genocide.” What is genocide? Article two of the 1948 Genocide Convention defines genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” According to the United Nations, Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term “genocide” in response to the Holocaust and pushed to have it codified as an international crime. World leaders split on calling the attack “genocide” Some world leaders have stopped short of explicitly blaming President Vladimir Putin for instructing Russian forces to commit genocide. “What Putin has done in Ukraine doesn’t look far short of genocide,” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said. However, President Joe Biden who originally called for Putin to face a war crimes trial has called the attack on Bucha a “genocide.” Genocide in recent history There have been several instances of genocide in the last century, including the Holocaust and Cambodian and Rwandan genocides. 1994: The Hutus murdered up to 800,000 people, mainly the Tutsi minority in the East African nation of Rwanda. 1975-1979: The Kymer Rouge massacred roughly 2 million people in Cambodia. 1941-1945: The Nazis killed around 6 million Jews in Europe during the Holocaust. Follow Straight Arrow News on social media — Facebook:   / straightarrownews   Twitter:   / straightarrow__   Instagram:   / straightarrownews   TikTok:   / straightarrownews   Subscribe to Straight Arrow News emails -- Weekly Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hxuRdj Opinion Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hS5VIX