Mass killings in Bucha could be repeated on a very large scale - head of HRW

05 April 2022, 09:21 | Ukraine 
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Mass killings of Ukrainian civilians by the Russian military, similar to Bucha, could be repeated on a very large scale, says Kenneth Roth, head of the human rights organization Human Rights Watch.

Pictures of hundreds of the dead, whose bodies lay on the street for weeks because they could not be buried, Roth called "

“What is happening in Bucha and other cities around Kyiv can be repeated on a very large scale.. And so we are trying to convey to the Kremlin a simple truth: here is the evidence that these atrocities were. If you don't want to go to court, manage your troops,"

The head of HRW urged the International Criminal Court, whose prosecutors have already begun collecting evidence of Russia's war crimes in Ukraine, to act as quickly as possible in order to preserve as much evidence as possible..

" just having a body is not enough. The cause of death must be determined. In some cases, we receive reports of people tied up and executed. This is a clear war crime.. But if someone was killed in the crossfire, you need to take a closer look.. Some of them may have been soldiers of the armies of Ukraine and Russia. So you really need to investigate,” he added..

Roth believes that the Russian atrocities in Bucha cannot yet be called genocide, but this does not mean that they can be taken less seriously.. The human rights activist is also convinced that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin could be held personally liable for war crimes in Ukraine..

“We need to prove that he knew about the commission of these crimes.. I suspect that this can be proven and that he did not take steps to curb them, stop them,"

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For three days, 410 bodies of killed civilians were taken from the territory of the liberated Kiev region - men, women, children. Those who died from fragments of shells and bullets fired by the occupiers at point-blank range, tortured, bound hand-tied, raped in front of their parents and children.

The once cozy little Bucha turned into the second Srebrenica, and the mysterious ruzzy soul went to Hell to the songs of Leps. The best day that can now come is the punishment of war criminals. But for this to happen, two conditions must be met.. What kind? Inna Vedernikova talks about this in the article " Who and how documents the atrocities of the “Russian world” in Bucha” in ZN. U.A..

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