escape their village by car. just hours after president biden first used the word genocide to describe russian atrocities, clear patterns of international humanitarian law by russian forces here. experts from the organization for security and cooperation in europe, or osce, say they found credible evidence suggesting violations of quote, even the most fundamental even rights have been committed. another horrifying example, dozens of local officials, activists and journalists being abducted by the russians and forcibly disappeared. the whereabouts of many of those detained, still unknown. the report cites many well documented cases of the use of cluster munitions, rockets or bombs that hold dozens of smaller bombs inside and are designed to discharge over a wide area, inflicting as much damage as possible. this video shows what appear to be cluster bombs exploding in chargive in the east. you can see at least four
criminal court. he s also a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. ambassador, thank you for joining us. let me put up the definition of genocide. it includes a mental element. an intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnic group. also causing killing, bodily or mental harm, destructive conditions, preventing births and transferring children to mothers of another group. so what do you think has vladimir putin checked enough boxes here for this to be genocide? he s actually checking all the boxes, jake. the evidence is coming in. international lawyers, myself for quite a number of days now saying that the red lines of genocide are being approached very, very quickly. first we were able to determine war crimes as a crime by the russian military.
i am reminded it was only last month that the u.s. formally declared that myanmar committed genocide against the rohingya. it is a common argument to say that we have to have an official designation by our government of genocide before we fulfill our obligations under the genocide convention. wrong. because if you wait for that, then you wait for years. we just came out in the u.s. government with a determination of genocide against the rohingya in myanmar, which was the ethnic cleansing campaign of 2017. that s five years ago. and we just came out with the lawyers determination that that, too, was genocide. so how do you responsibility to this in real-time if you have to wait for an official designation? of course, it is very important to get that and courts will want that. they will look to that as evidence that can be presented in a court of law against a particular individual, or in the
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