The resolution was passed unanimously by the Sejm, the lower house of Poland’s parliament, on Thursday, the state PAP news agency reported.
Polish MPs said in their resolution: “The deliberate and systematic violence committed by Russian Federation forces against the civilian men and women of Ukraine bears the hallmarks of genocide.”
They added that mass graves and dead civilian bodies lining the streets of Ukrainian towns such as Bucha “are bloody evidence of the criminal aspirations of Vladimir Putin’s imperial policy.”
Lawmakers called on the international community “to react adequately to the scale of the barbarity committed against the Ukrainian people.”
‘Judge war criminals as a matter of urgency’
“The Polish Sejm expects an immediate creation of an international investigative commission to document and verify facts, accounts and opinions, and judge war criminals as a matter of urgency,” the declaration went on to state.
Poland’s lawmakers also called for Russia to be “suspended as a member of all international organisations that safeguard the modern legal and security order.”
In addition, they urged for the perpetrators of war crimes to be brought before the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
“Nobody who values human freedom, human rights and dignity, the rules of democracy and the foundations of civilisation, can be indifferent to the tragedy of Ukrainians,” the Polish MPs said.
“The countries and governments that are unable to join this coalition for justice, are instead joining, deliberately or otherwise, the coalition of Russian lawlessness,” the resolution concluded.
The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday suspended Russia from the UN Human Rights Council amid reports of "gross and systematic violations and abuses of human rights" in Ukraine.
Friday is day 44 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Source: IAR, PAP