Canada’s parliament has unanimously condemned Russia’s actions in Ukraine as “genocide”.
The lawmakers agreed on Wednesday that there was “clear and ample evidence of systemic and massive war crimes against humanity” by Russian troops.
The presidents of Poland and the US have both labelled Russia’s killing of civilians “genocide”, but other world leaders – such as the president of France – have stopped short of the term.
International law defines genocide as the deliberate “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”.
Last year, Canadian MPs also voted to condemn China’s treatment of Uyghur people as genocide
BBC News.
