PANEL DISCUSSION "A Question of Genocide: How to Qualify Atrocities Being Committed by Russia in Ukraine?"
of Fulbright Alumni, experts in the legal and historical dimensions of the concept of "genocide." 18th May 2022 It was very timely to exchange views on the qualification of atrocities committed by Russian military against Ukrainians since 24th February 2022 in the frame of full-scale aggression of Russia against Ukraine.
Secial attention was paid to the existence of intent of Russian political and military leadership to destroy the Ukrainian nation, the issue of targeted group of this alleged genocide and to genocidal acts committed by Russian military. Though international and domestic jurisdictions are very cautious concerning a crime of genocide being committed in Ukraine as the evidence of genocide is most difficult to obtain, "genocide is too big an issue to be left to lawyers" (Prof. Eugene Finkel). The world already knows that there is ongoing genocide of the Ukrainian nation committed by Russia.
SPEAKERS: Roman Serbyn (Professor Emeritus, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
"Russia’s Annexationist War Against Independent Ukraine in the Light of the 1948 UN Convention on Genocide"
Gennadi Poberezny U.S. Fulbright Scholar 2019-2020 in Ukraine(Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA)
(Ukrainian Free University, München, Germany)
"Misunderstandings of the genocide concept and the challenges of qualifying crimes in Ukraine"
Myroslava Antonovych Fulbright Visiting Scholar 1995-1996 (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine)
(Ukrainian Free University, München, Germany)
"Ongoing Russian Genocide against the Ukrainian Nation"
Oleksandr Pronkevich Fulbright Visiting Scholar 2003-2004 (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Mykolaiv, Ukraine)
"Writing and Speaking about the Genocide in the Spanish Language"
MODERATOR
Kristina Hook U.S. Fulbright Scholar 2018-2019 in Ukraine (Kennesaw State University, GA, USA).