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in bucha seem to be like that. when you have people whose hands are bound and by all indications are executed, that s a classic war crime. other war crimes are the indiscriminate bombardment of civilian areas that we ve seen in other parts of ukraine. so that is pretty straightforward. genocide is an entirely different crime. i have to say there s always this tendency to have charge inflation. you have like war crimes isn t bad enough, even though these are horrible crimes. genocide is a particular and requires an intent to eradicate in whole or in part in this case an ethnic or national group. the whole question is intent. it s not enough to have just a handful of executions. there has to be an effort to eradicate at least part of this group. so i think that s why the white house has backed away from that because that s a much more substantial charge and it requires a very extensive pattern in order to demonstrate that kind of intent. the other question that just came up is where can