In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Care to explain how 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 aren’t literally all being ticked off by Russian forces in Ukraine? any one of those actions is sufficient.
Even according to your own source… Russia is ticking most of those stages- 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 10. the only one (so far as I know,) not being actively engaged in is “symbolization” and I would suggest that’s not necessary for a genocide. at least not in a literal “force them to wear symbols of their oppression” level of symbolization.
Genocide is defined, under international treaty- specifically, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide , aka, the Geneva Convention.
Specifically, Article 2 defines genocide as:
Care to explain how 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 aren’t literally all being ticked off by Russian forces in Ukraine? any one of those actions is sufficient.
Even according to your own source… Russia is ticking most of those stages- 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 10. the only one (so far as I know,) not being actively engaged in is “symbolization” and I would suggest that’s not necessary for a genocide. at least not in a literal “force them to wear symbols of their oppression” level of symbolization.
and you’re also participating in #10, too.
That’s enough. We’re done here.