means. but officers resisted as the massacre played out. meantime, vigils and memorials are giving families and the community a chance to grieve and of course, begin healing. but nothing will bring back the 21 people they ve lost. and we re now hearing for the first time from the mother of the gunman, salvador ramos. translator: i have no words. i have no words to say. i don t know what he was thinking. he had his reasons for doing what did he and please don t judge him. i only want the innocent children who died to forgive me. what do you tell their families? translator: forgive me. forgive my son. i know he had his reasons. what reasons could he have had in. translator: to get closer to those children instead of paying attention to the other bad things. i have no words. i don t know. cnn s ed lavandera begins our coverage. reporter: two days after the mass shooting at robb elementary, the story of what happened when the gunman arrived on the campus has fundame
here. cnn, ukraine. so a group of international legal analysts has now weighed in on whether russia s actions in ukraine constitute genocide. a new report says that russia bears state responsibility for direct and public incitement to commit genocide. the report concludes that all 151 countries that signed the genocide convention have a duty to stop what is happening in ukraine. earlier we spoke with the author of that report. he said that ukraine represents a unique situation because the atrocities are going on every day. and that signatories to the convention have a responsibility to act. the implications are very clear. it was set up to prevent genocide on.