Posted on 10/29/2022 7:17:48 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
A report commissioned by the United Nations this month found Russian forces in Ukraine committed an array of war crimes, including summary executions, torture, rape and other acts of sexual violence against Ukrainian civilians.
The report by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine details violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in four regions occupied by Russian armed forces. The commission focused its investigations largely in the regions of Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Sumy.
In preparing the report, the commission conducted 191 interviews and traveled to 27 cities over five separate visits. In some cases, the commission found that Ukrainian forces committed war crimes against Russian troops, though those incidents were less frequent.
Moscow has repeatedly denied allegations that its forces deliberately target civilians since the full-scale invasion began in late February.
In one of the most disturbing examples of sexual violence, the commission details an incident involving a 4-year-old girl:
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
And this time, it’s not from UN troops!
Which 191 Individuals? Which Cities?
Why are the number of trips important?
Who is on the commission? How were they selected?
... and morons still ask “why don’t you surrender for peace”.
It wouldn’t be peace! It would be savage torture (just away from the western news)!
But Ukrainians know. That’s why Ukrainians of all life tracks fight like hell! You have lawyers, programmers and gas station attendants all together giving their all.
Fake.
Bad things happen in war.
Things get broken and people do not die pretty
The same UN that puts criminal pedophile “peacekeepers” around the world who engage in sex trafficking of children? That UN?
Russians gotta Russ.
“Fake”
An ignorant, lazy response so you get called out for it.
Do better.
Sickening.
Were they taking babies out of incubators?
There’s always two sides, and CNBC always tells the Leftist fascist side!
Keep pushing the amoral new world order where there is no United States of America, but a totalitarian authoritarian government the whole world is subjugated to.
Millions upon will be wiped off the face of the earth and their deaths celebrated and reported by the blood-thirsty.
The deliberate and cynical use, by Zelensky and his Globalist Masters, of Ukraine’s own civilians as human shields, as well as their use of churches, hospitals, schools, and private houses as weapons storage facilities and firing platforms, are severe war crimes and violations of international humanitarian law.
Severe war crimes.
SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
IN UKRAINE IN THE CONTEXT
OF THE ARMED ATTACK
BY THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
24 FEBRUARY — 15 MAY 2022
Placement of military objectives near civilian objects and the use of human shields
34. OHCHR is concerned that in the course of hostilities, both Russian armed forces and affiliated
armed groups as well as Ukrainian armed forces took up positions either in residential areas or
near civilian objects, from where they launched military operations without taking measures for the
protection of civilians present, as required under IHL.16 OHCHR is further concerned by reports of
the use of human shields, which involves seeking to use the presence or movement of the civilian
population or individual civilians to render certain points or areas immune from military operations.
The use of human shields is specifically prohibited by article 28 of Geneva Convention IV and
article 51(7) of additional protocol I.
35. OHCHR does not have reliable numbers on these cases, but the case of a care house in the
village of Stara Krasnianka (Luhansk region) has been emblematic in this regard. At the beginning
of March 2022, when active hostilities drew nearer to the care house, its management repeatedly
requested local authorities to evacuate the residents. This was reportedly impossible as Ukrainian
armed forces had allegedly mined the surrounding area and blocked roads. On 7 March, soldiers
from Ukrainian armed forces entered the care house, where older persons and residents with
disabilities and staff were located, as it had strategic value due to its proximity to an important
road. On 9 March, soldiers from Russian affiliated armed groups, who were approaching from
the opposite direction, engaged in an exchange of fire with soldiers from Ukrainian armed forces,
although it remains unclear which side opened fire first. During this first exchange of fire, no staff or
patients were injured.
36. On 11 March, 71 patients with disabilities and 15 staff, along with soldiers from Ukrainian
armed forces, remained in the care house with no access to water or electricity. That morning,
soldiers from Russian affiliated armed groups attacked the care house with heavy weapons, with
patients and staff still inside. A fire started and spread across the care house while fighting was
ongoing. Some staff and patients fled the care house and ran into the forest, until they were met five
kilometers away by Russian affiliated armed groups, who provided them with assistance. According
to various accounts, at least 22 patients survived the attack, but the exact number of persons killed
remains unknown.
37. By way of further example, in the village of Yahidne in Chernihiv region, which was controlled
by Russian armed forces from 3 to 31 March, 360 residents, including 74 children and 5 persons
with disabilities, were forced by Russian armed forces to stay for 28 days in the basement of a
school they had been using as their base. The basement was extremely overcrowded and people
had to sit for days without an opportunity to lie down. There were no toilet facilities, water or
ventilation. As a result of the conditions, ten older persons died. The incident raises concerns that
Russian armed forces used civilians to seek to render their base immune from military operations,
while also subjecting them to inhuman and degrading treatment.
BTW, you forgot Point #9:
9. OHCHR has documented and verified allegations of unlawful killings, including summary executions of civilians in more than 30 settlements in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Sumy regions, committed while these territories were under the control of Russian armed forces in late February and March. In Bucha alone (Kyiv region), OHCHR documented the unlawful killings, including summary executions, of at least 50 civilians. Most victims were men, but there were also women and children. As the recovery, exhumation and identification of mortal remains is not yet over, the scale is yet to be fully assessed.
Chechens are very brutal
Shock! Said no one.
You are exactly correct.
They’re muzzie brutal.
If you think Russian soldiers are bad, you should find out what Japanese soldiers did in SE Asia during WWII. But nothing is as bad as nuking civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That was the ultimate brutality to incinerate civilans, women and children live.
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