Editorial: The carnage in Bucha was evil. Its architect, Vladimir Putin, must be held accountable
by Chicago Tribune Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune
Apr 06, 2022
3 minutes
The images bring to mind Srebrenica, the Bosnian town where Serb troops tortured and summarily executed thousands of Bosnians, mostly men and boys, in 1995. The international community branded that horrible chapter of the Bosnian war as genocide, and it’s with the specter of Srebrenica that the world now must investigate the atrocities revealed this weekend in Bucha, a small Ukrainian town northwest of Kyiv.
Bodies of men in civilian clothes lay in the streets, some of them with their hands bound behind their backs. They were shot dead while Russian troops occupied
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