Subject: Chinese Professor Says All Ukrainians Fair Game After Bucha Massacre Tue Apr 05, 2022 9:08 pm
A man in Bucha stands next to the graves of civilians, who local residents say were killed by Russian soldiers, on April 4, 2022.
Quote :
Yi Shen
Professor, Fudan University, Department of International Politics “Didn't Ukraine distribute guns (to civilians)? Since then, all Ukrainians can be regarded as combatants, [like those] captured by the United States in Guantanamo.” Source: Weibo, April 3, 2022
After Ukrainian forces announced they had retaken the Kyiv region on April 2, scenes of horror were discovered in the city of Bucha.
Russian forces have been accused of carrying out mass killings there. Journalists from multiple news agencies have documented mass graves, streets littered with corpses, and dead civilians with their hands bound behind their backs, bearing close-range bullet wounds.
World leaders have condemned what Ukrainian authorities are calling war crimes.
Russia is claiming the photos and videos from Bucha were staged.
Your daily #Fakes pushed by the Western media Russian troops committed atrocities in Bucha The @mod_russia and the city’s mayor confirmed that the troops left the city on March 30. It’s yet another provocation in order to stir emotions and call for more weapons pic.twitter.com/28KCcHOLED — Russian Mission in Geneva (@mission_russian) April 3, 2022
On April 3, a user on China’s Twitter-like social media platform Weibo asked Yi Shen, a professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University who has 1.7 million Weibo followers, about the images civilians corpses in the Kyiv region. The user said those images would create a wave of “anti-Russian public opinion.”
Yi, replied that Ukrainian civilians may be fair game in Russia’s so-called “special military operation.”
“Didn't Ukraine distribute guns (to civilians)? Since then, all Ukrainians can be regarded as combatants, [like those] captured by the United States in Guantanamo,” Yi wrote.
“First, they are not civilians, but combatants; second, they are not soldiers and do not enjoy the protection of the Geneva Convention rights system. The United States has already demonstrated [it], and Ukraine can't jump out of this box.”
A Lecturer at Fudan University, Weibo OP specializing in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict with over 1.7M subscribers justifying a potential massacres of Ukrainian civilians by the Russian military. #TheGreatTranslationMovement#大翻译运动#UkraineRussiaWar pic.twitter.com/IztM8bWUiT — The Great Translation Movement 大翻译运动官方推号 (@TGTM_Official) April 4, 2022
To say all Ukrainians can be viewed as combatants is blatantly false. Even Ukrainians who joined the Territorial Defense Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, like civilians, are entitled to Geneva Convention protections. To treat all Ukrainians as enemy combatants is illegal.
First, when Russia launched its full-blown invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy tweeted: "We will give weapons to anyone who wants to defend the country. Be ready to support Ukraine in the squares of our cities.”
We will give weapons to anyone who wants to defend the country. Be ready to support Ukraine in the squares of our cities. — Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) February 24, 2022
Those who wished to take up arms were given a streamlined process to join the Territorial Defense Forces— the reserve component of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
On March 5, The National Guard of Ukraine (Ukraine’s national gendarmerie) announced that 100,000 Ukrainians had joined the Territorial Defense Forces.
Prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion on February 24, Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Force was made a standalone branch of the country’s armed forces. That made it a military, and not paramilitary organization.
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Chinese Professor Says All Ukrainians Fair Game After Bucha Massacre
Subject: Chinese Professor Says All Ukrainians Fair Game After Bucha Massacre 
Tue Apr 05, 2022 9:08 pm
Russian troops committed atrocities in Bucha
The @mod_russia and the city’s mayor confirmed that the 
troops left the city on March 30. It’s yet another 
provocation in order to stir emotions and call for more weapons pic.twitter.com/28KCcHOLED
