Erik Møse, Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UN HRC) Impartial Worldwide Fee of Inquiry on Ukraine, stated throughout a press convention on 16 March that the Fee’s investigation into human rights violations in Ukraine has not discovered proof that Russia dedicated genocide in Ukraine.
Supply: Interfax-Ukraine, citing Møse’s assertion throughout a UN HRC press conference
Quote from Møse: “We’ve got not discovered that there was genocide inside Ukraine.”
Particulars: Møse stated that in the course of the investigation the Fee has famous “that there are some points which can increase questions with respect to that crime… [i.e., the crime of genocide – ed.] however we’ve not but put in any conclusion right here”.
Background:
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On 7 December 2022, the US Senate Committee on Overseas Relations endorsed a resolution recognising Russia’s actions in Ukraine as genocide.
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On 8 December 2022, Canada and the Netherlands filed a joint declaration of intervention within the Worldwide Prison Court docket case regarding Allegations of Genocide below the Conference on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Ukraine v. Russian Federation).
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On 4 March 2023, Vsevolod Kniazev, Chairman of Ukraine’s Supreme Court docket, said that Ukrainian courts would quickly start to listen to legal proceedings on warfare crimes dedicated by the Russian Federation regarding the genocide of the Ukrainian Individuals.
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