documentation of Ukrainian war crimes and atrocities

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A large scale mine sweeping operation in underway in south-eastern Ukraine as numerous unexploded shells and missiles remain in the area after months of deadly conflict.

Despite the ceasefire between the government troops and the self-defense forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk Republics, locals remain in constant danger from unexploded devices, which they call “the army's gifts".

"Gifts" from the Ukrainian army.

The Holocaust in Dnepropetrovsk Style or ... the MASS KILLING OF JEWS  by the Ukrainian regime

From a story of hacked e-mails of the CLOSEST associate of Ukrainian oligarch Kolomoysky, Boris Albertovich Filatov, we have the following:

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7. September 12, 2014 11:20
Subject: Parasyuk
Pankevich to Filatov:

“No, it is not all, Boris. Your idiots slaughtered 37 civilians, 19 of them were Jews! And you know where I got such a detailed information? Yesterday night somebody dug out the garbage bags and boxes with the remains of all those 37 people! You know me well, I would not have mind, if all 37 had been Jews, but do you realise, that this kind of Mini-Holocaust that your fighters committed will not die down in time? Do you have an idea how to move it ahead and present to the public? Didn’t you have enough trouble with the Trade Union Building (May 2, Odessa—edit.), did you? Do you realise that it was not some mushroom hunters, who found the mass grave? That there was a certain person who pointed out those bags and boxes? Give it a thought, my dear Boris, either nobody recognized your guy in captivity (Parasyuk is one of most visible members of Kolomoisky mercenaries, captured but claimed to be able to escape because nobody recognized him—edit.), or he sang to them like a nightingale while in captivity. Please, be so kind to make sure that your Parasyuk will not come close to our current affairs. Only God knows, what kind of person he became after captivity.”

The following commentary was added ...

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  It is not fully clear from the message of Pankevich when exactly the execution took place—allegedly in May—but the bodies were dug out only now. From the correspondence it follows that one of the detachments of battalion “Dnepr” exterminated 37 Ukrainian civilians, 19 among them were Jewish. Considering very strong nationalistic atmosphere in such paramilitary units, the events looks a sort of a Ukrainian-made Holocaust. Of course, very few details. Who found the bodies? In which way they were identified as Jews? Who organized the burial, putting the bodies in garbage bags?

Levin also writes to Filatov, conveying to him the rumors about executions of Jews. Let me remind you that Levin allegedly is the chairperson of Jewish religious community in Kiev as well as the president of the International Forum of Russian-speaking Jewry. However, the plan “whom to blame for executions of Jews” is actually ready ...

Dnepr is the private army of the Ukrainian-Israeli (dual passport) oligarch, Kolomoysky, aka Benya.

Fine. Let's wait till the bodies are exhumed and then you can apologize for trivializing the mass killing of Ukrainian Jews.

5 horrors, likely by the Western (and Canadian) sponsored Ukrainian puppet regime, that remain poorly investigated and unresolved.

In no particular order, these brutal deaths involved HUNDREDS of civilians ....

1. Mass graves in Donetsk. The brutal regime, while carrying out its admitted "anti terrorist" campaign, claims that it "wasn't there". The victims had their arms tied behind their backs and were shot, point blank, multiple times;

2. Slaughter in Maidan. Over 100 [protestors and police alike] shot dead, 1,000 or more injured,  by unknown snipers. Not so unknown, however, that the Estonian Foreign Minister  couldn't help but mention to EU mouthpiece C Ashton that the new regime doesn't want to investigate this brutal atrocity given that the snipers were allegedly hired by Maidan "leaders";

3. Massacre in Odessa. 50 dead, 250 injured as protestors were incinerated or shot as they leaped from a burning trade union building. No one responsible has been identified, serious allegations of falsification of the evidence have come out, so much so that a Ukrainian MP had her signature removed from the report because it was so full of lies and fabrications;

4. Russian Journalists killed and abducted from reporting from the war zone. Kiev has done little or nothing;  

5. Shelling, using heavy artillery, of civilian areas in Lugansk, Donetsk, etc. Hospitals, schools, residential areas were not spared. The barbarous Ukrainian regime blamed the resistance for shelling their own civilians.

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What has this regime done to investigate all this?

SQUAT! THAT'S WHAT!

More evidence of disgusting atrocities by the brutal Ukrainian puppet regime.

Warning: images of torture victims.

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Punitive troops from the "Aidar" battalion drowned a woman in a recreation zone that is located 10 kilometers away from Lugansk. Before the murder the national guardsmen tied the victem hand and foot, subjected her to cruel torture. Her jaw was broken and a finger was shot off.

According to the militia, apparently the Aidar troops killed not only this civilian resident of Donbass, but also their own comrades – they finished them off during the retreat. One of the disfigured corpses of the natonal guardsmen was found in a golf-club. In the same place they also found a dry ration and a Czech-English dictionary, announces LifeNews.

Tortured and murdered by the Ukrainian regime.

The deafening silence also applies to the human rights organizations in the West. They could give a shit about the horrific atrocities against ethnic minorities in Ukraine - like those in Novorossiya -

VV Putin, President of Russia wrote:

I would like to touch upon another acute issue, one that can leave none of us indifferent – I am referring to the developments in Ukraine. We have all been following them lately. These developments have revealed a large-scale crisis in terms of international law, the basic norms of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. We see numerous violations of Articles 3, 4, 5, 7 and 11 of the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and of Article 3 of the Convention on Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of December 9, 1948.

We are witnessing the application of double standards in the assessment of crimes against the civilian population of southeastern Ukraine, violations of the fundamental human rights to life and personal integrity. People are subjected to torture, to cruel and humiliating punishment, discrimination and illegal rulings.

Unfortunately, many international human rights organisations close their eyes to what is going on there, hypocritically turning away. Meanwhile, look at what is happening now, in the course of the election campaign – and this has to do with voting rights – do we not see it? Those in disagreement are beaten up and humiliated all the time. What kind of democracy is it that is being imposed on this territory...

Putin also notes the crimes against religious believers ... while the human rights activists in the West say nothing. Squat.

"You know, the media has shown over the past few days – today and yesterday – they are celebrating OUN-UIA, this nationalistic, pro-fascist organisation; it is practically an official celebration in Ukraine accompanied by calls for reprisals against representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchy. All this while the Patriarch is doing everything to stop the fratricidal conflict. The Patriarch himself and other Church Primates are doing so much and are being attacked: 18 churches have already been taken away and believers are chased out of churches. Where are the human rights activists regarding the right to religious worship and freedom of religion? There is almost total silence here, by the way. Not a word, as if nothing is happening, while this is very serious. People are being chased out of churches, beaten up and humiliated and their property is taken away."

Russian President meets with civil society and human rights organizations

While pro-Nazi, Bandurist elements continue to hold public marches honouring their predecessors, a review of the horrific atrocities of those predecessors might be in order. The following link provides a list of documented atrocities against civilians by OUN-UIA.

They are calling their current marches, "The March of Heroes".

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“The March of Heroes”—a torchlight procession of Right Sector activists—took place today in Odessa. It was arranged by two nationalist social and political organisations: Social-Nationalist Assembly (SNA) and the social organisation “Patriot of Ukraine”. They were joined by fighters of the Azov Battalion, who had returned to civilian life from the ATO zone as a result of the recent troop rotation. Azov is staffed by activists of the SNA and, according to the organisers of the march, “it was initially considered a Right Sector battalion.” Right Sector football fans and other “patriotic youth” also participated in the procession. The march has threatened to become the main event in the city of late. A “March of Heroes” was also held in Kiev and Kharkov. It is not yet clear what the consequences are for the residents of those cities. We will probably find out later. However, we take this opportunity to recall some of the “heroic deeds” engraved in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army’s history.

And here are some of the things those "heroes" did ...

WARNING: gruesome atrocities listed!

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1. Nailing a big thick nail into the skull.
2. Scalping (tearing away of skin and hair from the head).
3. Hitting the skull with the handle of an axe.
4. Hitting the forehead with the handle of an axe.
5. Carving out an “eagle” on the forehead.
6. Nailing a bayonet into the temple of a victim.
7. Knocking-out of an eye.
8. Knocking-out of both eyes.
9. Amputation of the nose.
10. Amputation of an ear.
11. Amputation of both ears.
12. Spearing a child with a stake.
13. Transfixing the head with a sharpened thick wire stretched from one ear to another.
14. Amputation of lips.
15. Amputation of the tongue.
16. Slitting the throat.
17. Slitting the throat and pulling out the tongue through the wound.
18. Slitting the throat and inserting a snip into the wound.
19. Knocking-out teeth.
20. Breaking the jaw.
21. Tearing off the mouth from ear to ear.
22. Stuffing the mouth with tow while transporting still alive victims.
23. Slitting the neck with a knife or a sickle.
24. Striking the neck with an axe.
25. Сleaving the head with an axe.
26. Rotating the head 180 degrees backwards.
27. Crushing the head, gripped in a vice, tightening the clamps around it.
28. Decapitation with a sickle.
29. Decapitation with a scythe.
30. Decapitation with an axe.
31. Stabbing the neck with an axe.
32. Inflicting stab wounds to the head.
33. Slicing off narrow strips of skin from the back.
34. Inflicting other types of chopped wounds to the back.
35. Sticking the back with a bayonet.
36. Breaking ribs.
37. Hitting with a knife or a bayonet at heart or near it.
38. For women—amputation of the bust with a sickle
39. Amputation of the bust and sprinkling the wounds with salt.
40. For men—amputation of genitalia with a sickle.
41. Sawing the body of a victim in half with a carpenter saw.
42. Inflicting stab wounds to the body of a victim with a knife or a bayonet.
43. Piercing pregnant woman’s belly with a bayonet.
44. For adults—slitting the belly and pulling out the intestines.
45. Slitting the belly of a woman in late pregnancy and replacing the foetus, for instance with a cat or a rabbit, with subsequent suturing up of the wound.
46. Slitting the belly and pouring boiling water inside.
47. Slitting the belly, putting stones inside of it and throwing the victim into the river.
48. Slitting the belly of a pregnant woman, filling it up with broken glass shards.
49. Pulling out the sinews from groin to heels.
50. Inserting red-hot iron rods into vagina or anus.
51. Inserting pine cones, narrow tip forward, into victim’s vagina.
52. Inserting a sharpened stake into the vagina and pushing it until it comes out at the throat.
53. Slitting a female torso with garden scissors, from the vagina to the neck, pulling the intestines out.
54. Hanging a victim up by the intestines.
55. Insertion of a glass bottle into the vagina, and breaking the bottle.
56. Insertion of a glass bottle into the anus, and breaking the bottle.
57. Slitting the belly, filling it with animal feed, exposing a victim to starving pigs which eat the feed along with victim’s intestines.
58. Chopping off an arm with an axe.
59. Chopping off both arms with an axe.
60. Piercing the palm of the hand with a knife.
61. Amputation of fingers with a knife.
62. Amputation of a hand.
63. Burning the palm of a hand on a superheated coal furnace.
64. Chopping off the heel of a foot.
65. Chopping off the whole foot.
66. Fracturing hand bones with a blunt instrument at multiple points.
67. Fracturing leg bones with a blunt instrument at multiple points.
68. Sawing a torso, restrained by planks, half-and-half with a carpenter saw.
69. Sawing a torso half-and-half with a rip saw.
70. Amputation of both legs with a saw.
71. Sprinkling red-hot coal over tied legs.
72. Nailing hands to a table, and feet to the floor.
73. Nailing the victim’s hands and feet to the cross in a Catholic church.
74. Striking the back of a head with an axe, victims put lying on the ground.
75. Inflicting axe wounds all over the body.
76. Quartering of the whole body with an axe
77. Breaking bones of lower and upper extremities with a specially invented device.
78. Nailing a small child’s tongue to a table, so that the child is hanged up by the tongue.
79. Quartering a child with a knife, throwing the body parts all around.
80. Tearing open a child’s belly.
81. Nailing a small child to a table with a bayonet.
82. Hanging a male child by his genitalia from a door handle.
83. Knocking out the leg joints of a child.
84. Knocking out the arm joints of a child.
85. Smothering a child by rags put over the face.
86. Throwing a live child into a deep well.
87. Throwing a live child into a burning house.
88. Smashing babies’ heads by dashing them, held by the feet, against a wall or a furnace.
89. Impaling a child on a stake.
90. Hanging a monk up by his feet at the pulpit in a Catholic church.
91. Hanging a woman up by her feet on a tree, followed by amputation of bust and tongue, tearing open her belly, gouging her eyes and cutting out pieces of her flesh with a knife.
92. Nailing a small child to a door.
93. Hanging a victim up on a tree.
94. Hanging a victim up on a tree by the feet.
95. Throwing a victim into a lighted bonfire, while girls are dancing around and singing songs accompanied by live music from an accordionist.
96. Piercing a body with a stake, attaching it to the ground.
97. Tying a victim to a tree and shooting at him or her as at a target.
98. Taking a victim, naked or in only underwear, out in the severe frost.
99. Smothering a victim with a lathered noose.
100. Dragging a body on the ground, tied by a noose around the neck.
101. Tying up a woman with feet and hands to two trees, slitting her from groin to breast.
102. Tearing up the torso of a victim with chains.
103. Dragging a victim, tied to a carriage, along a roadway.
104. Dragging along the roadway a mother and her three small children—arranged in the following way: one leg of the mother is tied to the carriage; a leg of the eldest child is tied to the other leg of his mother; a leg of the younger child is tied to another leg of the eldest etc.
105. Transfixing a body with a carbine barrel.
106. Сonstriction of a victim with barbed wire.
107. Сonstriction of several victims together with barbed wire.
108. Recurrent tying up of a body with barbed wire and regularly drenching with ice water every few hours, in order to bring round the victim and to continue painful torture.
109. Burying a victim in the ground up to the neck and leaving them in such position.
110. Burying a victim in the ground up to the neck with subsequent decapitation with a scythe.
111. Tearing a victim apart by tying the body to two horses and driving them apart.
112. Throwing adults into a burning house.
113. Setting aflame a victim doused with flammable liquid.
114. Laying round a victim sheaves of straw, setting him or her aflame—so-called “Nero’s torch”.
115. Jabbing a knife into a victim’s back, leaving it inside the wound.
116. Sticking a baby on a pitchfork and throwing it into the bonfire.
117. Cutting off the skin from a victim’s face with a blade.
118. Nailing oak stakes along victim’s rib bones.
119. Hanging a victim up on barbed wire.
120. Tearing the skin off the body of a victim, pouring ink or boiling water over the wounds.
121. Tying a victim to a pier, with subsequent using for knife-throwing practice.
122. Tying up the hands with barbed wire.
123. Inflicting mortal blows with a spade.
124. Nailing the hands to the threshold of a house.
125. Dragging a victim along the roadway with legs tied.

These units, that are now integrated into the structure of the Ministry of the Interior of Ukraine, honour those who carried out these endless cruelties and atrocities.

Banderite atocities. Proud of being merciless.

6079_Smith_W wrote:

At least they don't wear white after labour day. That truly would be a gruesome atrocity.

Trivializing and riduculing fascist and Nazi atrocities. You might be more comfortable at another discussion board.

Another worthless contribution. Thanks for that.

In other news, Dr Jonathan Levy, Ph. D. in Poli Sci and an attorney member of the International Criminal Bar has written an article in which he suggests that, given the disinformation campaign of Western propaganda (and echoes from the faux left even here on rabble.ca) , Novorossiya should go it alone and create its own international tribunal to try war crimes suspects. 

Novorossiya Must Bring Kiev’s War Criminals to Justice: A Legal Analysis

As Levy points out, until Novorossiya gave the Ukrainian military junta and its fascist militias the merciless pounding they so richly deserved, there was a very real scenario of another hopelessly biased UN sponsored kangaroo tribunal like the ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia) which mainly persecuted Serbs for defending themselves ... this was looming large in the case that the Ukrainian junta suceeded with its brutal and barbaric ethnic cleansing in Eastern Ukraine.

Happily, that scenario did not develop. However, the ICC has, to its shame, ignored the snipers of the Maidan and the paid thugs who burned innocents alive in Odessa. The possibility of UN-sponsored show trials of the defenders of Donetsk and Lugansk was a disgusting possibility. Levy wrote a piece in which he suggested that the Council of Europe (of which both Ukraine and Russia are members), separate from the hopelessly bigotted EU, sponsor a War Crimes Tribunal.

Sadly, this did not come to pass, as the council has become little more than a megaphone for the supporters of the Ukrainian junta. 

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Therefore Novorossiya itself as a sovereign state must seize the initiative.  Just as Novorossiya and only Novorossiya defended itself from Kiev, it is only Novorossiya that can move forward with a war crimes tribunal. Evidence and testimony has been already been collected and it is abundant.  Many of the perpetrators both high and low are known and the rest will be discovered. The enablers, propagandists and funders of genocide outside Ukraine are also numbered and known for the most part.  There is no lack of allegations or suspects. What is lacking is the mechanism to bring them to justice.

There is also a Canadian connection here.

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When the oppressed people of Ukraine finally wake out of their slumber and throw out the rascals in the Kiev government and cleanse the country of Nazis and corrupt oligarchs, the criminals will find a soft landing in Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada just as many blood stained Banderists did after Second World War.  The Vatican, MI6, and the predecessor to the CIA did all they could to help certain useful Nazis and their collaborators escape justice via the ratlines and find a new life as assets abroad. A repeat of this travesty of justice must be avoided as these rotten apples have a way of resurfacing later with their message of hate and ultra nationalism.

Certainly, we see many examples here in Canada of that same disgusting and frothing hatred so typical of fascists and their supporters. Anyway, some critical points follow ...

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Novorossiya as a sovereign state may engage in foreign relations.  It can sue in the courts of other countries because it is an independent sovereign state under international law and its agencies are legal entities. Novorossiya may file cases with international tribunals. However, it is also blocked from membership in the major international organizations and the existing tribunals seem heavily prejudiced against Novorossiya.

Novorossiya therefore must set up its very own International Tribunal and give it independence to act in lieu of the UN, ICC, and Council of Europe. This bold act will result in recognition of the tribunal even when states may still shy away from recognizing Novorossiya itself. Progressive states will recognize the tribunal and its power to seize property and extradite criminals. Perhaps a third party country host can be found too.

Just to remind babblers, or those who are actually anti-fascist and not fascist bootlickers, etc, ....

" ... a war crimes tribunal is an important weapon against fascism. Fascists thrive in dark places and times and hide their identities behind masks and hoods; the threat of exposure their identities and deeds scares them greatly.  Even during the worst days of the Second World War, Himmler eased his murder of the Jews in Hungary in fear of prosecution after the war. The cowards and the cravens in Kiev, who allow their forces to target schools and mass transit in Donetsk would likely modify their behaviour if they risked indictment for war crimes from a recognized tribunal.  But the Kiev regime is currently well protected by backers in United States and NATO and consequently is emboldened in its attempts to intimidate the people of Novorossiya."

As Levy points out, Lawfare can be just as important a form of struggle as warfare.

I really don't understand why trolling a thread isn't also worthy of a public warning. And stalking. If Smith and like-minded babblers have nothing useful to contribute to a thread, why can't they be cautioned to stay away?

For example, the previous post by Smith has nothing to do with Ukrainian atrocities and war crimes. etc.

Kiev's War Crimes Are Not in Doubt. Why the Silence?

"Despite widespread and undeniable evidence of war crimes and human rights abuses little is being done to hold Kiev to account."

Mind you, the virtual dead silence from the Western corporate media about the unending atrocities and war crimes from the Ukrainian junta didn't stop the recent Nobel Peace Prize winner from expressing his concerns about the slaughter of children thanks to this very same junta.

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A day after winning the Nobel Peace Prize last Friday, Kailash Satyarthi, in an interview with RIA News, urged the Ukrainian government to protect Ukrainian citizens and especially children: “It is the responsibility of the Ukrainian government to save their citizens, particularly children. Safety of children will be their utmost priority. I will appeal to the Ukrainian government so as to ensure that such incidents against children will not occur in future.”

According to the recent UN report as many as 3,660 people have been killed and over 8,756 have been wounded in Donbass since Kiev launched its military operation in April. Even though a ceasefire was announced on September 5th, more than 330 people have died since, including 20 children. UNICEF stated that at least 35 children have been killed in the Ukrainian conflict and 87 have been wounded.

Yeah, they're killing children as well as adults. Oh well - just blame the Rooskies! The resistance are killing ... their own kids! Human shields! etc.

US mini-documentary shows how, using public domain video, that provocateurs organized by the Kiev-backed Odessa authorities, dressed to look like "pro-Russian" demonstrators, fired at the right-wing extremists, in order to incite the riot.

Follow-up from the Corporate-owned media? Still nothing.

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The Odessa massacre is the other shoe, along with MH17, and the discovery of mass graves proving war crimes in East Ukraine, which is waiting to drop.  

The facts about these three issues are going to go mainstream, and when they do, support for Kiev, inside and outside Ukraine, is going to evaporate quickly....

This excellent mini-documentary, done by an American investigative journalist, came out a long time ago, on May 12, just one week after the massacre.  It has over 200,000 views on his Youtube channel.  No doubt many journalists covering Ukraine have seen it.  Yet still no follow-up stories.

Agent Provocateurs and the Odessa Massacre

Leading US Human Rights Group Confirms Widespread Use of Outlawed Cluster Bombs by Kiev on Civilians

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The Ukrainian Army appears to have fired cluster munitions on several occasions into the heart of Donetsk, unleashing a weapon banned in much of the world into a rebel-held city with a peacetime population of more than one million, according to physical evidence and interviews with witnesses and victims.

There are some unsubstantiated claims about finding the bodies of 286 rape victims in Donetsk, where the junta's Dnepr-1 forces were located, but I'm not seeing any substantiation or follow-up yet.

It reads like over-zealous reporting. ugh. There are enough atrocities already, there is no need to fabricate any more.

Bodies of 286 women listed as missing found ...

Maybe NOT!

Zakharchenko denies ....

2 teens were killed, 4 injured, as the Ukrainian junta shelled a school in Donetsk. The attempts to recover the dead and injured ... were hampered by ... ? You guessed it!

More shelling! Even Amnesty International, riddled with pro-Empire sycophants, is taking notice.

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“There should be a thorough investigation into the shocking attack in Donetsk,” Denis Krivosheev, the deputy head of Amnesty International's Central European and Central Asian program, was cited by RIA-Novosti news agency as saying. “If the components of war crime are detected, those responsible should be brought to justice."

From Canada? SQUAT!

Then again, maybe Canadian companies ... can sell Ukraine the shells! Because war ... is profitable! So be quiet about these killings! Profits are more important than these "pro-Russian" untermensch anyway! [end sarcasm]

2 teens killed, 4 injured in shelling nr Donetsk school, E. Ukraine