GENEVA, October 1. /TASS/. Russia cannot let crimes in south-eastern Ukraine remain unpunished, Russian Foreign Ministry’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Democracy and Supremacy of Law Konstantin Dolgov said on Wednesday, October 1, in Geneva.
“We keep demanding that all attacks against civilians, all murders should be properly investigated under effective international control. We shall be demanding that all those responsible are identified and put on trial,” the diplomat said.
In particular, Russia will not let May 2 tragedy in Odessa sink into oblivion, Dolgov said. “We, the international community, will not permit it (May 2 tragedy in Odessa) to be left unpunished,” he noted. “Russia keeps this situation under constant control,” Dolgov added.
“All existing violations of human rights and norms of international humanitarian law must be investigated by the international community. They must get proper assessment,” Dolgov said.
May 2 tragedy in Odessa
Unrest in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odessa started on May 2, when football fans from the east Ukrainian city of Kharkiv marched along city streets with Right Sector radicals and supporters from Kiev's Maidan Self-Defense Force. Clashes broke out between them and activists seeking a referendum on the issue of Ukrainian federalisation and Russian's official status as a state language. At least 48 people died and more than 200 were injured in clashes in Odessa after radicals set ablaze the regional House of Trade Unions, where pro-federalisation activists had taken refuge, and a tent camp near it where they had been collecting signatures in support of the referendum.http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/752188
1/10/14
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Group of MEPs to demand pressure on Kiev in order to investigate Odessa massacre ...
ReplyDeleteA group of members of European Parliament is drafting a letter to the parliament’s President, Martin Schultz, where they will ask him to exert pressure on the government in Kiev for doing a diligent investigation of the May 2, 2014, massacre in Odessa that took away 48 human lives and left more than 200 people wounded.
The news was revealed to TASS by Tatjana Zdanoka, a MEP from Latvia.
“More than six months have passed since the tragic event in Odessa and the culprits haven’t been brought to accountability to date,” she said. “On the contrary, we’re witnessing Kiev’s reluctance to do this.”
“That’s why a group of MEPs has drafted a letter to Martin Schultz at the initiative of Italy’s Northern League party,” Zdanoka said. “They demand that he put pressure on Kiev so that the Ukrainian government should hold an investigation.”
The letter is to be sent to Schultz shortly.......................http://en.itar-tass.com/world/758208
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