“Biden’s rhetoric is timely for resisting the threat of imminent genocide and for drawing attention to the gravity of what Ukraine’s people are suffering. When the leader of a powerful country speaks up before that particular hell manifests, it augments urgent global action needed to prevent genocide — an international legal obligation,” Professor Hannah Garry writes in a recent op-ed for The Hill.
Garry writes further on the “mounting evidence of specific genocidal intent to destroy Ukrainians as a national group,” calling on world leaders to speak up about the thread of genocide under their legal obligation to prevent it.