Its a shame because they're prominent voice on lemmy. Good on the admins for not tolerating this. I don't understand the point of targeting a person you don't like on the internet just because they said something that upset you and spamming their post with downvotes. If you don't like someone block their ass and be done with it. I agree with the perspective that its harassment (and an incredibly petty ineffective form of it at that)
Human rights law professor and former UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Juan E. Méndez, commented in April 2022: "I think this deserves an investigation. Of course, it would be a serious mistake to ignore the fact that many of the victims so far were clearly civilians, perhaps because they were Ukrainians – this is a national origin, a condition that fits into the partial definition of genocide ... But that the fact that civilians are killed is not necessarily genocide"
Way to link a source that confirms that these claims have not been confirmed. It says that NGOs suspect there may be a genocide ongoing. And it's linked to one NGO that I haven't heard of.
You know what's really interesting is that, when this went to the ICJ for Israel-Palestine, they almost immediately made Israel take a step back on Palestine because they were worried about their protection, but they haven't done the same thing for Ukraine and Russia, even though they're engaged in court in the same way, even though Russia is also accusing Ukraine of committing a Russian genocide in the Donbas region.