SvennoJ said:
@Ryuu96 knows a lot more about this but the ICC has issued arrest warrants against Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova for the war crime of abducting children from Ukraine, which is one of the items in the Genocide conventions. |
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
- Killing members of the group;
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
It's genocide according to the UN's own definition but it's a bit of an "attempted genocide" because Ukraine is actually able to fight back unlike Palestinians so it is a much slower process, Russia has repeatedly said that Ukraine as a state, as a people, don't exist and obviously make attempts to wipe them out, the mass killings, the rapes, the poor conditions inflicted upon Ukrainians in occupied territories which force them to leave, the ecocide by blowing up dams contributes to that genocide, the forcibly abducting of children to Russia.
It was actually Ukraine who requested the court investigate Russia's claims of "genocide" in Donetsk and Luhansk.
Anyway, both situations are horrific, in their own way, the only difference like I said is that Ukraine can fight back and like you said, Ukraine can move, not even necessarily out of the country but they can move to "safer" parts of Ukraine still, Gaza Strip is a tiny strip of land, densely populated, surrounded by Israel and their only route out is via the sea (obviously not a good option) and Egypt who are barely letting them pass.
So there's way more civilian casualties in Palestine but Ukraine still has hundreds of thousands innocents killed by Russia (I'm counting soldiers because I consider the vast majority of those Ukrainian soldiers to be innocent), millions displaced out of the country, thousands of civilians killed and thousands of children abducted so it meets the definition of genocide in my eyes.
I don't really like making these comparisons though, both are horrific but they're also very different in their own ways, Israel needs less support, Ukraine needs more support. All I would want to say is that, Ukrainians are not the enemies of Palestinians and vice versa, Western hypocrisy is not Ukraine's fault and there are many who support Ukraine and are against Israel's current actions.