A year after Russia’s crimes in Bucha came to light, Ukraine marches toward justice for its civilians

It has been a year since the world first saw the bloated bodies in the streets and heard the testimonies of people who had survived the systematic torture, rapes and executions that took place during the month-long Russian occupation of the Kyiv suburb of Bucha. Ukrainian authorities quickly declared it a “new Srebrenica.”

Payam Akhavan, a Canadian human-rights lawyer who advises the ICC prosecutor’s office on issues of genocide, called Bucha “a microcosm” of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. “It’s about destroying the Ukrainian people. It’s about, at the very least, destroying their identity, destroying their existence, not just as a sovereign state but as a nation.

“It is conceivable that one could have a similar approach to the extermination of the civilian population here in Bucha,” he said. “But just because an act is not genocide doesn’t mean that the perpetrators are not culpable for other crimes.”scene of angry mourning “We will never forget the victims of this war, and we will certainly bring all Russian murderers to justice,” Mr. Zelensky wrote on social media. “We will never forgive. We will punish every perpetrator.”

The Kremlin has dismissed the ICC warrant for Mr. Putin’s arrest as “outrageous and unacceptable” and vowed to ignore the court. Russia has also falsely claimed that the well-documented massacre in Bucha was either faked or carried out by Ukrainian forces. Mr. Akhavan called the large-scale abduction of Ukrainian children one of the most “disturbing” things he’s seen in more than 30 years as a human-rights lawyer. But he said the arrest warrants demonstrate that perpetrators are starting to be held to account.

If they only knew that their own President was behind their suffering and pain 😢 They need new leadership, not this.

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