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Sec. Blinken says we cannot become ‘numb’ to Putin’s war crimes, vows ‘accountability’
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated the U.S. can not turn out to be “numb” to photographs of loss of life and destruction in Ukraine, vowing “accountability” for struggle crimes.
“You may’t assist however see these pictures as a punch to the intestine,” Blinken stated on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. He was reacting to pictures out of Bucha, Ukraine, close to Kyiv, displaying pictures of civilian males who had been reportedly executed and left on the streets, in response to town’s mayor.
Blinken stated the U.S. is documenting any potential struggle crimes and vowed “accountability.”
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“We have stated earlier than Russia’s aggression that we thought it was doubtless that they might commit atrocities. Because the aggression, we have come out and stated that we imagine that Russian forces have dedicated struggle crimes. And we have been working to doc that to offer the data that we have now to the related establishments and organizations that may put all this collectively and there must be accountability for it.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks after viewing the “Burma’s Path To Genocide” exhibit at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Monday, March 21, 2022. Blinken says the violent repression of the largely Muslim Rohingya inhabitants in Myanmar quantities to genocide. The declaration on Monday is meant to each generate worldwide strain and lay the groundwork for potential authorized motion. (Kevin Lamarque, Pool by way of AP)
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“I believe a very powerful factor is we will not turn out to be numb to this. We won’t normalize this,” Blinken added.
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Host Dana Bash additionally added that Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Sunday that “Russians goal to eradicate as many Ukrainians as they will,” and requested Blinken if he sees this as “genocide.”
“We’ll look laborious and doc all the things that we see, put all of it collectively. Ensure that the related establishments and organizations which might be this, together with the State Division, have all the things they should assess precisely what occurred in Ukraine,” Blinken responded.