Amnesty International: Ukraine: Mounting evidence of war crimes and Russian involvement

[pampango]

Ukrainian militia and separatist forces are responsible for war crimes, Amnesty International said today. The organisation accused Russia of fuelling separatist crimes as it revealed satellite images indicating a build-up of Russian armour and artillery in eastern Ukraine.

Despite a fragile cease-fire, the situation on the ground remains fraught with danger and Amnesty International calls on all parties, including Russia, to stop violations of the laws of war. “All sides in this conflict have shown disregard for civilian lives and are blatantly violating their international obligations,” said Salil Shetty, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, who travels to Kyiv and Moscow in the coming days.

“Our evidence shows that Russia is fuelling the conflict, both through direct interference and by supporting the separatists in the East. Russia must stop the steady flow of weapons and other support to an insurgent force heavily implicated in gross human rights violations.”

The Kremlin has repeatedly denied any involvement in the fighting in Ukraine, but satellite imagery and testimony gathered by the Amnesty International provide compelling evidence that the fighting has burgeoned into what Amnesty International now considers an international armed conflict.

http://amnesty.org./en/news/ukraine-mounting-evidence-war-crimes-and-russian-involvement-2014-09-05

Finally something more than the "he (Russia) said, she (Ukraine) said", along with the "No we are not doing that and you can't prove that we are" denials from both sides, that we usually get.

[Peacetrain]

1. Prepare for Amnesty International to be thrown under the bus

by the Russia did no wrong crew, and America cannot criticize them because we are so bad bad bad.. take it to the bank..

[freshwest]

9. I've tried, but it always goes back to those rainbow cookies:

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Even after rebuttals:

President Barack Obama spent "$5 billion paying Ukrainians to riot and dismantle their democratically elected government."



http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/mar/19/facebook-posts/united-states-spent-5-billion-ukraine-anti-governm/

Found to be:





I posted on several items on this with many videos and pictures and links, but DU search refuses to show the post no matter how hard I try.

It appears that anything that is added to a Journal deletes it from regular search results.
Then going the Journal results in it going to a page that has NOTHING to do with the post and it's not there.

Going through My Posts likewise does not show. It was not a hidden post or anything. And it had replies, as well.

So all of that research gone to waste here. But I brought you some delicious cookies...

[NuclearDem]

2. Those Amnesty PNACers!

[Codeine]

3. Amnesty International are well-known

fascist sympathizers in the pocket of the MIC and Zionists.

, for the impaired.

[MrNJ]

4. NULAND !!!!11!one!

[geek tragedy]

5. The only ones who deny Russia's misbehavior

are those who support it, or in the case of MH17, are incapable of being disturbed by it.

One power handed out cookies, the other started a war by invading its neighbors.

[jeff47]

17. ...but they were damn good cookies. (nt)

[Comrade Grumpy]

6. AI reports the obvious. Both sides have committed war crimes.

[geek tragedy]

7. Some deny that Russia is a participant on

one side.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. Except the Catherina Crowd here insists that it's only the Ukrainian side to blame.

And that the separatists are innocent "anti-fascists" fighting against the junta.

It's the same thing they did with the Odessa riots.

[LanternWaste]

11. With an emphasis on...

With AI's emphasis on...

"Russia is fueling the conflict, both through direct interference and by supporting the separatists in the East. Russia must stop the steady flow of weapons and other support to an insurgent force heavily implicated in gross human rights violations.”

A statement heavily contested and rationalized by the somewhat more... dimwitted and dogmatic.

[Cali_Democrat]

10. I blame Victoria Nuland's cookies

She knew exactly what she was doing when she handed out those cookies to the Ukrainian protesters.

Her goal was to bring the universe directly under her control and she has succeeded beyond her wildest dreams.

She must be stopped.

[jeff47]

12. Hang on. Gotta wait for RT to tell me what to think.

Maybe Robert Parry will quote some unnamed sources about how Amnesty International is under Dick Cheney's control.

[NuclearDem]

13. I'm waiting on the six degrees of Bush family.

[jeff47]

15. Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll link it back to someone

named Буш. Which Google translate claims is the word "Bush" in Russian.

[AZ Progressive]

14. This doesn't change the fact that NATO has been surrounding Russia since the end of the cold war

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO#mediaviewer/File:History_of_NATO_enlargement.svg

You think the U.S. would act any differently? Remember Central America during the 80's?

[jeff47]

16. You have an odd definition of "Surround".

Your definition of "surround" apparently covers only one direction.

[geek tragedy]

18. And what Reagan did was acceptable? Not

his fault?

Wrong for Reagan, wrong for Putin.

[NuclearDem]

20. You mean when Reagan funded rape and murder terror squads in Central America?

[pampango]

21. Or that small countries, for some odd reason, have sought some protection from Russia.

Their experience of occupation and repression by the USSR for 45 years must have left them with an otherwise inexplicable desire to join an alliance that might help to keep history from repeating itself.

You think the U.S. would act any differently? Remember Central America during the 80's?

Reagan was right then and so is Russia now? Or Reagan was wrong then and so is Russia now? It is no wonder that so many fundamentalist and far-right republicans idolize Putin. He's bringing Reagan back to life in a different part of the world.

[MohRokTah]

19. .