Posted on 10/15/2022 11:27:33 AM PDT by dennisw
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Ukraine Official Fired Over Handling of Russian Sexual Assault Claims
A Ukrainian official has been relieved of her duties over her handling of reports detailing sexual assault allegations made against Russians in Ukraine.
On Tuesday, the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, removed Lyudmila Denisova, the parliament’s commissioner for human rights, from her post, according to Ukrainska Pravda. No new appointment has been made to fill the role.
The move to dismiss Denisova came after outrage about the wording used in public reports about alleged sexual assaults committed by Russians, as well as the alleged dissemination in those reports of unverified information. Despite accusations from Ukraine, the Kremlin has repeatedly denied that Russian soldiers have committed war crimes or sexual assaults during the invasion.
Last week, Ukrainian media outlets and journalists signed an open letter in which they requested that reports concerning rape and sexual assault be “published with caution,” particularly when involving children, according to an English translation of the letter.
The open letter also stated that “it is important to understand that sexual crimes during war are an instrument of genocide, an instrument of waging war without rules, but they cannot serve as illustrative material to inflame the emotions of the audience.”
The letter from the journalists indicated how reports from Denisova went into great detail about the alleged rape of children, some as young as 6 months old, by Russians.
The letter also criticized Denisova for including details of cases that the journalists said were unverified and asked her to “check the facts before publication” and “disclose only information for which there is sufficient evidence.”
The letter went on to say that the information put out by Denisova’s office is regarded as factual by the media, and is then used in articles and in speeches by public figures.
According to the online Ukrinform news platform, one member of the Ukrainian parliament, Pavlo Frolov, provided a number of reasons why Denisova was removed, including “the numerous details of ‘unnatural sexual offenses’ and child sexual abuses in the occupied territories, which were unsupported by evidence and only harmed Ukraine.”
-yeah—is the Red army composed of guys over about 65?
This is the greatest propaganda campaign in my life.
I’m only in my 40’s.
;)
There’s a famous image of two girls, legs tied spread apart, tied to a lamppost with their skirts and panties off.
This really does read like allied propaganda circa 195 right there with debreasted Belgian nuns and the ‘crucified Canadian’.
A punchline to a 70’s joke.
Never gets old.
;D
We were lied into other horrible wars by some of the same bipartisan neocon villains.
For example, Victoria Nuland was a big promoter of the bogus “Iraq WMDs” lie that lead to at least 200,000 dead Iraqi civilians.
And she’s still at it.
He’s also giving them Nature’s Balance to give them back their Va Va Voom!
bingo
One of your fellow Putin Stooges posted directly to you that I should be raped and murdered by Russian invaders.
This. Rape is horrible and it was terrible what the Russians did as they moved into Germany, but total war is a very nasty business and that’s why wars should be avoided.
Americans think war looks like the video game style of Gulf War 1 or the lawyer-controlled wars of Iraq and Afghanistan where the ROEs caused us to have to buy off the enemy in one country (Iraq) and totally lose and leave with people hanging off the landing gear in the other (Afghanistan).
“It is well that war is so terrible lest we grow fond of it” — Robert E. Lee
Sounds like more propaganda.
Sounds like their source was Christopher Steele. Do people here even think when they read this stuff. Did Trump pee on Russian prostitutes?
Biden sending Z-slinky Viagra immediately.
Didn’t Hillary say this about Libyan government before she and Obama launched a bombing war on Libya?
Oh well, at least the UN isn’t claiming the Russians are bouncing babies off of bayonets. That propaganda line was discarded after being used in WWI.
Are they trying to imply that Russia only has old men left to send into battle?
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