Many Ukrainian priests who support Russia will face Hague trial – Genocide researcher Totten

This was stated by American professor, genocide researcher Samuel Totten on Espreso.

He recalled that in Rwanda there were priests, relatives of Hutu killers, who called on the affected Tutsi people to come to churches as shelters, and then locked the doors and invited the killers who tortured people to death. There was also a radio station run by an extremist. Every morning, the Hutus were called to work, that is, to kill Tutsis.

"There is a direct parallel between what is happening in Ukraine and those Ukrainian  priests who, in fact, support Putin's actions. As far as I understand, they are   collaborators. These priests who speak on the radio or talk to the press, they are collaborating with Putin against Ukraine to force or try to force Ukraine to submit to the will of the Russians, and this is an international crime.

I'm ready to say here and now that many of these priests will end up in the dock at the International Criminal Court and then in prison, where they will have time to think that they are not true Christians but political agents of Putin," Samuel Totten emphasized.

• On April 7, Metropolitan Onufriy and more than 20 other priests of the UOC-MP were found to have Russian citizenship. The Moscow Patriarchate called this information "manipulative and unreliable."