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U.N. investigators report rape, torture of children among Russian war crimes
UPI ^ | SEPT. 23, 2022 / 2:17 PM | By Matt Bernardini

Posted on 09/23/2022 11:54:33 AM PDT by Red Badger

U.N. investigators released a report Friday detailing Russian war crimes in Ukraine. Photo by Vladyslav Musienko/UPI

Sept. 23 (UPI) -- A new repot by United Nations' investigators has concluded that Russian troops have raped and tortured children in Ukraine, carried out a large number of executions and committed other war crimes.

The Independent International Commission of Inquiry reported their findings Friday, after visiting 27 towns and settlements and interviewing more than 150 victims and witnesses. The commission also said they are currently investigating deaths in 16 towns.

"Based on the evidence gathered by the commission, it has concluded that war crimes have been committed in Ukraine," Erik Mose, the chairman of the three-member commission, told the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Mose said that a number of the attacks that were investigated appeared to have been carried out without distinguishing between civilians and combatants. Many of these attacks were classified as executions.

"Common elements of such crimes include the prior detention of the victims as well as visible signs of executions on bodies, such as hands tied behind backs, gunshot wounds to the head, and slit throats," Mose said.

Witnesses also told the investigators that they were forcibly transported to Russia and held for weeks in prisons and subject to various forms of torture. This is a subject of the ongoing investigations.

"As it continues its investigation, it will examine the forced transfer of people and the alleged expedited adoption of children," Mose said.

The investigators also worried about the mental health of children who have been affected. It found many cases where children were raped, tortured and even killed.

"The exposure to repeated explosions, crimes, forced displacement and separation from family members deeply affected their well-being and mental health," Mose said.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia
KEYWORDS: mattbernardini; surejan; surezel; zeroukiewarcrimes
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1 posted on 09/23/2022 11:54:33 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Related: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4095561/posts


2 posted on 09/23/2022 11:56:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Diesel Powered Trucks Are Now Racist, According to California?...................


3 posted on 09/23/2022 11:56:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Courtesy of the US and EU bought and paid for UN....


4 posted on 09/23/2022 11:56:58 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Red Badger

Ukies deserve it.

< / Putiphilia > </ sarc>


5 posted on 09/23/2022 11:57:52 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Who was Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: Red Badger
I'm of the opinion that Joe Biden is guilty of the same crime because of his total disregard of the border..
6 posted on 09/23/2022 12:01:38 PM PDT by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: cranked
Note how there ZERO Ukrainian war crimes.

No Narrative to see here, move along.

7 posted on 09/23/2022 12:03:00 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Red Badger

Have the UN looked at the crimes coomitted at our southern border?

Why not?


8 posted on 09/23/2022 12:06:15 PM PDT by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: Red Badger

No mention that the UN investigators were wearing red shoes.


9 posted on 09/23/2022 12:10:43 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Red Badger

“Russian troops have raped and tortured children ”

No surprise there… an age-old practice for Russian occupiers.


10 posted on 09/23/2022 12:32:02 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Slava Ukraini!)
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MOBILIZATION IN RUSSIA; ANNEXATION REFERENDUM IN UKRAINE; TRUE SIDE OF THE UN; WITH SCOTT RITTER.

[Take a break from the nonstop Globo Homo Empire propaganda machine.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTZ4ZR5xK3Q&ab_channel=Throughtheeyesof


11 posted on 09/23/2022 12:37:35 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Russian soldiers are widely known as rapists ...they’re leaders encourage it. Scum.


12 posted on 09/23/2022 12:56:57 PM PDT by toddausauras (Stop ALL immigration NOW. )
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To: Red Badger

Bullshit.


13 posted on 09/23/2022 1:09:18 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Red Badger

I believe the UN about as much as I would believe the Russians.


14 posted on 09/23/2022 1:10:38 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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The first casualty of war is truth......................


15 posted on 09/23/2022 1:11:42 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Hard to believe anything from this war....just have to wait for the facts.


16 posted on 09/23/2022 1:25:04 PM PDT by rrrod (6a)
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This is the official facts starting to come in.

“U.N. investigators released a report Friday detailing Russian war crimes in Ukraine.
Sept. 23 (UPI) — A new repot by United Nations’ investigators has concluded that Russian troops have raped and tortured children in Ukraine, carried out a large number of executions and committed other war crimes.”


17 posted on 09/23/2022 1:27:59 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: unread

There have been very few stories about the little girls being raped, sold and murdered at the border.
If I could magically make it happen, I would force Democrats/media to listen to the screams of the children forever!


18 posted on 09/23/2022 1:45:41 PM PDT by rrrod (6a)
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To: Travis McGee

“[Take a break from the nonstop Globo Homo Empire propaganda machine.]”

And go to a video of a convicted sex offender.

From Wikipedia:

“Arrests and conviction for sex offences.


Ritter was the subject in two law enforcement sting operations in 2001.[28] He was charged in June 2001 with trying to set up a meeting with an undercover police officer posing as a 16-year-old girl.[29][30] He was charged with a misdemeanor crime of “attempted endangerment of the welfare of a child”. The charge was dismissed and the record was sealed after he completed six months of pre-trial probation.[30][31] After this information was made public in early 2003, Ritter said that the timing of the leak was politically motivated in order to silence his opposition to the Bush administration’s push toward war with Iraq.[29][30][32]

Ritter was arrested again in November 2009[33] over communications with a police decoy he met on an Internet chat site. Police said that he exposed himself, via a web camera, after the officer repeatedly identified himself as a 15-year-old girl.[2] Ritter said in his own testimony during the trial that he believed the other party was an adult acting out her fantasy.[34] The chat room had an ‘age 18 and above’ policy, which Ritter stated to the undercover officer.[2] The next month, Ritter waived his right to a preliminary hearing and was released on a $25,000 unsecured bail. Charges included “unlawful contact with a minor, criminal use of a communications facility, corruption of minors, indecent exposure, possessing instruments of crime, criminal attempt and criminal solicitation”.[35] Ritter rejected a plea bargain and was found guilty of all but the criminal attempt count in a courtroom in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, on April 14, 2011.[2][36] In October 2011, he received a sentence of 1½ to 5½ years in prison.[37] He was sent to Laurel Highlands state prison in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, in March 2012 and paroled in September 2014.[38][34][31]”

Sorry, but I would take anything Ritter says with caution.


19 posted on 09/23/2022 1:49:44 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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Agree.. Ritter shouldn’t be a reliable source.


20 posted on 09/23/2022 2:36:07 PM PDT by rrrod (6a)
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