The Russian Foreign Ministry deeply regrets that the report on the situation in Ukraine, published by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, actually justifies the criminal punitive operation in the southeast of Ukraine, conceals casualties among peaceful civilians, makes an attempt to put the blame for the committed violations of human rights on the “pro-Russian forces,” the ministry said in a statement.
A new UN report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights monitoring team in Ukraine has pointed to the growing tendency of “violent confrontations” in the country. The report covers the period from 2 April to 6 May. It was released On May 16 in Ukraine’s Kiev and Geneva.
The report describes “an increasing tendency in some critical urban areas for rallies of opposing groups to be held simultaneously, often leading to violent confrontations.” The UN also notes that “in most cases, local police did nothing to prevent violence, while in some cases it openly cooperated with the attackers.”
[itar-tass.com]
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- UN Report on Ukraine Slams Human Rights in East...
United Nations monitors say violence by anti-government groups in eastern Ukraine is causing an "alarming deterioration" of human rights amid a political crisis between Kyiv and pro-Russian separatists.
- U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay said Friday the U.N. findings also raised deep concern about minorities facing harassment in Crimea, a southern region of Ukraine that was annexed by Russia in March. Neither Kyiv nor its Western allies recognize the annexation.
- Russia said the U.N. report findings were politically motivated and lacked objectivity.
Separatist leaders in Donetsk say they have asked Moscow to consider formally "absorbing" the region into the Russian Federation, but on Thursday Russia's Interfax news agency quoted a spokesman for Russia's Foreign Ministry as saying it had not received an official request from the "Donetsk People's Republic" to join Russia.
- Britain and the United States have warned Russia they will issue broader economic sanctions if Moscow tries to disrupt Ukraine's May 25 election.
[voanews.com]
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UN report documents “alarming” deterioration in human rights in eastern Ukraine....
ReplyDeleteGENEVA / KYIV (16 May 2014) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Friday that a new UN report produced by her 34-strong monitoring team in Ukraine shows “an alarming deterioration in the human rights situation in the east of the country, as well as serious problems emerging in Crimea, especially in relation to the Crimean Tatars.”
She called on “those with influence on the armed groups responsible for much of the violence in eastern Ukraine to do their utmost to rein in these men who seem bent on tearing the country apart.”
The 36-page report is the second to be produced by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission, based in five Ukrainian cities, since it was deployed by the High Commissioner for Human Rights in March. It covers the period from 2 April to 6 May.
The report makes a number of observations and recommendations relating to the programme of legal reforms under way in the country, including expressing concerns about the “Law on the restoration of the credibility of the judiciary in Ukraine” which entered into force on 10 May.
While noting that many peaceful rallies and demonstrations continue to take place in Ukraine, the report describes “an increasing tendency in some critical urban areas for rallies of opposing groups to be held simultaneously, often leading to violent confrontations.” It also notes “repeated acts of violence against peaceful participants of rallies, mainly those in support of Ukraine’s unity and against the lawlessness in the cities and villages in eastern Ukraine. In most cases, local police did nothing to prevent violence, while in some cases it openly cooperated with the attackers.”
Listing numerous specific examples of targeted killings, torture and beatings, abductions, intimidation and some cases of sexual harassment – mostly carried out by well-organized and well-armed anti-Government groups in the east – the report also draws attention to missing persons, including 83 still unaccounted for after disappearing during the events related to the original “Maidan” protests in Kiev. In the east, there has been a worrying rise in abductions and unlawful detention of journalists, activists, local politicians, representatives of international organizations and members of the military, the report says. While some have subsequently been released, the bodies of a number of others have been dumped in rivers or other areas, and some remain unaccounted for. The problem has been especially marked in and around the town of Slovyansk, in the Donetsk region, with a group called the ‘Slovyansk self-defence unit’ heavily implicated.
The report also notes cases when the State Security Service and army units operating in the east have been accused of killing individuals and of being responsible for forced disappearances. “Security and law enforcement operations must be in line with international standards and guarantee the protection of all individuals at all times,” the report says, adding that “Law enforcement bodies must ensure that all detainees are registered and afforded legal review of the grounds of their detention.”....................http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=14606&LangID=E
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Confrontations and the military operation in southeast Ukraine have taken 127 lives, Ivan Simonovic, Assistant UN Secretary-General for Human Rights, said citing information from the Ukrainian authorities and civil society activists....
ReplyDeleteHe presented the second report of the UN human rights observation mission in Ukraine at a press conference in Kiev on Friday and said the human rights situation in eastern and southern Ukraine had been significantly aggravated by the operations of armed units.
Simonovic expressed profound concern about the worsening human rights situation in southern and eastern Ukraine and the growing number of armed groups committing illegal acts.
In his words, the mission learned about 112 illegal detentions in southeastern Ukraine and was worried about 49 people, who continued to be kept illegally.
According to Simonovic, abuses of the sort demonstrated a decline in the respect for law and order in those areas of the country.
A growing number of armed people are involved in the protest demonstrations and the accessibility of weapons is mounting, he said.
Simonovic pointed out that the Ukrainian police often failed to do enough for averting clashes.
For instance, it seems that law enforcers contributed to the tragic Odessa events of May 2 and the death of 48 people, the UN official said.
Simonovic called on the Ukrainian authorities to hold an inquiry and to find persons guilty of those murders, as well as to find out why law enforcers were slow and undecided.
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_05_16/UN-Simonovic-reports-127-deaths-in-clashes-military-operation-in-southeast-Ukraine-7383/
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UN Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic believes that law enforcers went beyond the mark during the disorders in Odessa. He emphasizes the need to carry out an impartial investigation of people's deaths.....
ReplyDelete'The deaths of 48 people could have and should have been prevented. An impartial investigation must be carried out to determine who is responsible for the tragedy and why law enforcers exceeded their authority,' Simonovic said at a briefing on Friday.
Several dozens of anti-Maidan activists died in Odessa.......Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_05_16/Peoples-deaths-in-Ukraines-Odessa-could-have-been-prevented-UN-Assistant-Secretary-General-6589/
Комментарий официального представителя МИД России А.К.Лукашевича в связи с публикацией второго доклада Управления Верховного комиссара ООН по правам человека о ситуации в области прав человека на Украине....
ReplyDeleteОбратили внимание на второй доклад по ситуации на Украине, опубликованный Управлением Верховного комиссара ООН по правам человека (УВКПЧ).
Вынуждены констатировать, что доклад имеет мало общего с реальным положением вещей в области прав человека на Украине. Полное отсутствие объективности, вопиющие несоответствия и «двойные стандарты» не оставляют сомнения в том, что его авторы выполняли политический заказ по «обелению» самопровозглашенных властей в Киеве.
Причиной, приведшей к кровавой бойне в Одессе, авторы цинично назвали действия неких пророссийских активистов. О том, что озверевшие экстремисты и неонацисты сжигали живьем мирных граждан Украины, добивали раненых и расстреливали людей в окнах Дома профсоюзов, не сказано ни слова. Нет информации ни о преступном бездействии правоохранителей, ни о последующих задержаниях сторонников федерализации. Весь сюжет подается фактически в интерпретации официального Киева.
Авторы документа вновь предпочли обойти вниманием грубейшие нарушения прав человека со стороны самопровозглашенных киевских властей, включая похищения, расправы, пытки, бессудное содержание под стражей по политическим мотивам, произвольное и непропорциональное применение силы, в т.ч.военной, и т.д. Показательно, что на тридцати с лишним страницах доклада теме проявлений на Украине агрессивного национализма и неонацизма вообще не нашлось места.
Глубокое сожаление вызывает то, что в докладе фактически оправдывается преступная карательная операция на Юго-Востоке Украины, умалчивается о жертвах среди мирного населения, делается попытка возложить ответственность за совершаемые нарушения прав человека на «пророссийские силы». И это несмотря на то, что многие действия киевских властей на Юго-Востоке имеют признаки военных преступлений и преступлений против человечности.
В комментариях по Крыму составители доклада вышли за рамки дозволенного Уставом ООН, который прямо предписывает сотрудникам Организации строго придерживаться принципа нейтральности и беспристрастности. Объявив вслед за Киевом и его западными покровителями «незаконным» референдум в Крыму, Управление Верховного комиссара ООН по правам человека расписалось в том, что оно признает закрепленное в Международных пактах о правах человека право народов на самоопределение только тогда, когда это продиктовано политической конъюнктурой....................http://www.mid.ru/brp_4.nsf/newsline/54EF036184B9A73344257CDA0030C5BE
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(Reuters) - United Nations monitors in Ukraine have found an alarming deterioration in the human rights situation in the east of the country and serious problems emerging in Crimea, U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay said on Friday.....
ReplyDelete"Those with influence on the armed groups responsible for much of the violence in eastern Ukraine (must) do their utmost to rein in these men who seem bent on tearing the country apart," Pillay said in a statement accompanying the 37-page monitoring report.
The 34-strong monitoring mission's report, which covers the period from April 2 to May 6, said police and local authorities in eastern Ukraine connived in illegal acts and the takeover of towns by armed groups, which undermined the rule of law and guarantees for human rights protection.........http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/16/us-ukraine-crisis-un-idUSBREA4F05Y20140516?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
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The United Nations warned Friday of an "alarming deterioration" of human rights in eastern Ukraine, where the army is battling an insurgency by pro-Russian separatists.....
ReplyDeleteIn a new report, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay also voiced deep concern about "serious problems" of harassment and intimidation facing the Tatar community in Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in March in the face of international outrage.
The report catalogues a litany of "targeted killings, torture and beatings, abductions, intimidation and some cases of sexual harassment" which it said was carried out by anti-government groups in the east of Ukraine.
"The complete lack of objectivity, blatant discrepancies and double standards leave no doubts that (the report's) authors were performing a political put-up job aimed at clearing the name of the self-declared authorities in Kiev," the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement........http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/un-warns-of-alarming-deterioration-of-rights-in-east-ukraine.aspx?pageID=238&nID=66552&NewsCatID=359
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70th Anniversary of Crimean Tatar Deportation....
ReplyDeletePress Statement
John Kerry
Secretary of State
Washington, DC
May 16, 2014
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The 70th anniversary of Joseph Stalin’s forcible deportation of more than 230,000 Crimean Tatars from their homeland in Crimea weighs especially on our minds today.
The suffering caused by this mass expulsion is almost inexpressible. Those who survived the horrific transit to Central Asia, the Urals and Siberia faced hunger, disease, and repression on arrival. Nearly half of those deported, mostly women and children, perished between 1944 and 1947. Many Crimean Tatars and their descendants remain in exile today.
For many Crimean Tatars, these abuses are still fresh in their minds and Russia’s occupation and illegal attempt to annex Crimea has reopened old wounds.
The list of human rights abuses committed today in Crimea is long and grows longer with each passing week. Murder, beatings, and the kidnapping of Crimean Tatars and others have become standard fare. Local “authorities” announced that Crimean Tatars will have to vacate their property and give up their land. Crimean Tatars have been assaulted for speaking their language, and Tatar community leader Mustafa Dzhemilev has been banned from returning to his home in Crimea for five years. Thousands of Tatars and others have fled their homes in Crimea, fearful for their safety. Those who remain face a future of repression, discrimination, censorship, limits on freedom of peaceful assembly and association, and the criminalization of dissent.
We commemorate the tragedy of 1944 with heavy hearts, even as we stand in solidarity with Crimean Tatars today against a new threat to their community. We reaffirm our support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and our deep commitment to the human rights of all citizens of Ukraine, including those in Crimea.
http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2014/05/226248.htm
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