Bucha Genocide News Today

Torture. some with bound hands or close-range gunshot wounds. others were reportedly thrown into mass graves. moscow calls the reports of bucha fake and accuses ukraine of staging the scenes. but these satellite pictures from u.s. intelligence contractor maxar and an analysis by "the new york times" appear to corroborate the reports and videos of bodies lying in the streets out in the open for weeks, refuting russias claim that bodies were put in the streets after russian forces withdrew from th...

About this is ambassador pierre browchard prosper. paint a picture for us of what and how are war crimes, genocide, massacres, how are they defined and different? >> good morning. and thank you for having me. well, all of these are defined by way of international conventions that go back to really around the 1800s, 1907. and were all familiar with the geneva convention and the genocide convention. genocide is basically a crime where you have the intent to destroy a group in who or in part. crime...

Had the intent to destroy a group, a national ethnic, racial, religious group. to basically eliminate that group, destroy that group, in whole or in part. and what that means is that the type of attacks have to be such where youre killing the population. youre destroying its cultural infrastructure, youre transferring children from one group to another. basically, youre trying to make that group immaterial to you and to the rest of the world. it is something where evidence may be pointing in tha...

Spokeswoman says it points towards civilians being directly targeted in those towns. and a spokeswoman says it appears to be the direct killing and targeting of civilians in bucha. that would be against international human tlarn. weve all seen these images. people who appear to have been shot while riding on a bicycle. people whose hands are bound and appeared to then have been killed. there many more images that we have all seen, journalists who are following this, that were not able to show he...

Coming from the top and coming from putin. so it is something that needs to be investigated. and there needs to be accountability to not only to send a message to the russian forces and the russian leaders, but a message to the world, that this type of behavior will not be tolerated. >> there has been accountability in the past. very limited in nature, right? im thinking of some serbs, et cetera. but when zelenskyy says, and he calls what happened in bucha genocide, president biden has said that...