International Genocide Remembrance Day - Russia will be held accountable for its crimes against the Ukrainian people
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On December 9, the whole world commemorates the victims of genocide, remembering historical atrocities such as the Holocaust, the Holodomor, the Srebrenica massacre, and other massacres based on ethnicity, nationality, religion, or other grounds. Russia's war against Ukraine is also an act of genocide.
Today, on December 9, many countries around the world the memory of the victims of genocide is being honored in many countries, UNN reports.
The event was launched by the United Nations in 2015 in honor of the fact that on December 9, 1948, the Convention on the on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted on December 9, 1948.
The most horrific cases of genocide
In the twentieth century, tens of millions of people became victims of of ethnic cleansing, brutal killings on national or religious grounds: the murder of of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks in the 1915s and 20s, the Holocaust, massacres of by the Hutu people of their Tutsi opponents in Rwanda in 1994, the 1994, and the massacre of Bosnian Muslims by Serbs - the Srebrenica Massacre.
A separate line in this list is the Holodomor of the Ukrainian of the Ukrainian people in 192-33, organized by the Soviet government, which killed up to 10 million people became victims.
Russian aggression is a modern-day genocide
The full-scale aggression is another attempt by Russia to genocide against Ukrainians. More than 6,000 civilians have been killed as a result of shelling and rocket attacks, almost 20 thousand children forcibly taken to Russia. And these are only official figures.
It remains to be seen how many Ukrainians have been tortured in the temporarily occupied territories.
Even representatives of the International Criminal Courtwho who have experience in recording such crimes and now help specialists of Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise document the consequences of Russian aggression, for the first time faced the following the scale of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes of of aggression.
