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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 Internationals 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
(22,877 posts)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
(53,661 posts)Last edited Mon Sep 8, 2014, 05:38 PM - Edit history (1)
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
(16,184 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)fascist sympathizers in the pocket of the MIC and Zionists.
, for the impaired.
MrNJ
(200 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)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
(26,549 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)one side.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)And that the separatists are innocent "anti-fascists" fighting against the junta.
It's the same thing they did with the Odessa riots.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)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
(30,439 posts)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
(26,549 posts)Maybe Robert Parry will quote some unnamed sources about how Amnesty International is under Dick Cheney's control.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)jeff47
(26,549 posts)named Буш. Which Google translate claims is the word "Bush" in Russian.
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)You think the U.S. would act any differently? Remember Central America during the 80's?
jeff47
(26,549 posts)Your definition of "surround" apparently covers only one direction.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)his fault?
Wrong for Reagan, wrong for Putin.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)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.
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.