Inna Andalitskaya 01:13, 17.02.23 UNIAN
The document is ready for a vote in the Senate.
A number of US senators re-submitted a resolution to the US Senate that recognizes Russia’s actions in Ukraine as genocide of the Ukrainian people .
The Voice of America writes about this with reference to a message from the office of Senator Jim Rish from Idaho, who is a co-author of the resolution.
“A year has passed since the beginning of Putin’s brutal and unjustified war against Ukraine, and it is becoming quite clear that Russia is carrying out genocide,” Risch commented.
According to him, he “saw the atrocities with my own eyes” during a trip to Ukraine in June last year, and almost every day he “receives new reports about the inhuman actions of Russian soldiers against the innocent Ukrainian people.”
“The time has come for the US government to call it what it is and work with our allies to investigate and hold accountable those responsible for this atrocity,” he added.
In the resolution, the senators call on the United States, along with NATO and EU allies, to “support the government of Ukraine to prevent further acts of Russian genocide against the Ukrainian people.”
According to the legislator, this resolution, in particular, “supports tribunals and international criminal investigations to hold Russian political leaders and military personnel accountable for aggressive war, war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.”
The resolution on recognizing Russia’s actions as genocide on December 7 was supported by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and it is ready for a vote in the Senate.
The resolution was co-sponsored by Republican Senator Rish and Democratic Senator Cardin. In addition to them, the resolution was supported by 14 other senators from both parties. They introduced a similar resolution at the end of December last year, and once the new Senate begins its work, the procedure is to resubmit the resolutions.
“Vladimir Putin and all those who are leading and carrying out Russia’s barbaric invasion of Ukraine are committing genocide and they must be held accountable. Recent reports that many thousands of Ukrainian children are being forever separated from their families highlight the depth of these war crimes,” Cardin said.
He added that Ukrainians will continue to die “until Putin feels the consequences of his illegal and unprovoked attacks.”
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“He added that Ukrainians will continue to die “until Putin feels the consequences of his illegal and unprovoked attacks.”
I’m afraid he is correct. It is intolerable that civilians should continue to be deliberately murdered by savages, so the allies must finally agree to step up their game. No country since WW2 other than Russia has deliberately sought to rape, torture and murder civilians of their neighbours in industrial quantities.
Every Ukrainian child murdered from now on is of course the responsibility of the putler genocide regime, but when there is a nation with the awesome power of America choosing only to deploy a small fraction of that power to deter torture and mass murder, then the responsibility also falls upon them to put a quick end to it.
No more talk of “years of war.” Formulate a winning strategy now.
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