Opinion: Why the US should investigate Russian aggression in Ukraine as genocide
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on April 9, 2022
While President Joe Biden has spoken openly about Russian war crimes, his administration has responded more cautiously to any references of genocide in Ukraine. And rightly so; genocide is a complex legal concept, which many experts consider difficult to apply and widely misused.
Genocide has often been described as the "crime of crimes" and a United Nations Special Rapporteur on the subject has called it "the gravest violation of . . .