Among other things, it assures that Russian armed forces “bombed indiscriminately populated areas, killed civilians and destroyed hospitals and schools”.
The United Nations Office for Human Rights sees “more and more evidence” of war crimes committed in Ukraine, where “Russian forces have indiscriminately bombed populated areas, killing civilians and destroying hospitals, schools and other non-military infrastructure”.
In the eight weeks of conflict, “international humanitarian law has not only been ignored, but completely abandoned,” said the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Chilean Michelle Bachelet
The attack on the Kramatorsk train station on April 8, in which the death of 60 people and injured 111 otherssymbolizes a lack of respect for international laws prohibiting this kind of arbitrary military action, the high commissioner said.
The Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has documented the deaths of at least 2,345 civilians and 2,919 injured during the war, although Bachelet has emphasized that the actual number of casualties “could increase much more when the horrors come to light in areas of intense confrontation, such as Mariúpol”.
“The magnitude of summary executions of civilians in areas previously occupied by Russian troops is becoming known,” added the former Chilean president, who has called for efforts to preserve evidence of these crimes, the dignified treatment of the corpses. remains and psychological help for survivors and their relatives.
Source: EITB
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