On Friday, a UN human rights report is expected to address the issue of mass burial sites near Donetsk. This will be observers' regular report on the human rights situation in Ukraine.
Mass graves in eastern Ukraine
On September 23, reports came that Ukrainian people’s militia found mass burials in the area of mine No 22 “Kommunar” outside Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Medical examiners made a conclusion that the bodies found in one of the graves were killed by point-blank shots in the head.This area was previously controlled by the Ukrainian security forces and fighters of the Aidar battalion of the National Guard.
Prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic said in late September that around 40 bodies of civilians were found in one of the graves. Two others graves contained bodies of captured militia fighters and Ukrainian soldiers.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry believes the mass burial of civilians near Donetsk is a military crime that could have been committed by Ukraine’s National Guard, and insists on an urgent and comprehensive international probe into the case.
Kiev has rejected the claims.
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Duma speaker demands int’l tribunal for perpetrators of mass killings outside Donetsk...
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“We demand an international tribunal for those who are involved in these crimes against humanity,” Naryshkin said at a parliamentary conference, “New Security Challenges: the Role of Parliaments”, in Geneva.
Having mentioned such tragic episodes as the fire in Odessa’s Trade Union House, intentional bombings of residential areas in the south-east of Ukraine, the killing of journalists and the Malaysian plane crash over eastern Ukraine, Naryshkin said, “The search for the perpetrators in these and other outrageous crimes has been deliberately delayed”.
Naryshkin wondered if the same could happen with the investigation of mass graves in Ukraine's east. "Numerous tortured and killed people have been found outside Donetsk, in areas that were recently controlled by Kiev. And many more new secret burial places are found,” he said.................http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/752709
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