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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Stephanie van den Berg and Anthony Deutsch

Explainer-How to prove genocide, the most serious war crime?

FILE PHOTO: Forensic technicians exhume the bodies of civilians who Ukrainian officials say were killed during Russia's invasion and then buried in a mass grave in the town of Bucha, outside Kyiv, Ukraine April 8, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

Washington and Kyiv are accusing Russia of genocide in Ukraine, but the ultimate war crime has a strict legal definition and has rarely been proven in court since it was cemented in humanitarian law after the Holocaust.

WHAT IS GENOCIDE?

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