Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeausaid on Wednesday that it is “correct” to describe Russia’s attacks in Ukraine as “genocide”, joining the president of state Joined, Joe Bidenwho used the same term a day earlier.
“It is absolutely correct that more and more people are talking about and using the word genocide in terms of what Russia is doing; what Vladimir Putin has done,” Trudeau told reporters in Quebec.
“We have seen this desire to target civilians, to use sexual violence as a weapon of war,” he said. “This is completely unacceptable.”
Trudeau also highlighted that Canada it was “one of the first countries” to initiate a process in the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to “ensure that Putin is held accountable for his actions, for his war crimes.”
Ukraine has been accusing Russia of committing war crimes and planning a genocide of its population even before the discovery of hundreds of murdered civilians and mass graves in the city of Bucha, which generated a wave of international revulsion.
Although Western countries had not come to use the term “genocide” in principle, in line with a long-standing protocol due to its strict legal definition and the strong implication that the accusation entails, now it seems little by little to change something in some powers. .
The American President, Joe Bidenaccused on Tuesday Putin of “genocide”, while giving a speech on gasoline prices in the state of Iowa. In his opinion “the evidence (of it) is mounting” and therefore it would be up to international courts to determine whether Russia’s actions in the neighboring ex-Soviet republic fit the term.
British Prime Minister, Boris Johnsonalso indicated last week that the alleged Bucha massacre “does not seem far from genocide.”
The government leaders of France Y Germany acknowledged on Wednesday that Russia had committed war crimes, but refused to repeat Biden’s accusation of “genocide“.
AFP
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