Ni treba it v čas 2. sv vojne.
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/03/14/crimea-attacks-disappearances-illegal-forces
Self-defense units and paramilitary forces in Crimea are abducting, attacking, and harassing activists and journalists.
These forces operate outside of the law, without insignia, without a clear command structure, and with complete impunity. Local authorities in Crimea have a responsibility to ensure these forces cease their actions, disband, and disarm, Human Rights Watch said.
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Human Rights Watch documented the involvement of self-defense units in the abductions of at least six activists from the Euromaidan movement, which organized the months of protests in Kiev that led to President Viktor Yanukovich’s ouster. These units have also attacked and harassed numerous local and foreign journalists.
Local and international media freedom groups have also documented dozens of attacks against reporters by self-defense groups across Crimea. Ukrainian human rights groups have reported that the units have also been involved in violently dispersing demonstrations, unlawfully searching people and vehicles, especially at the Crimea’s administrative borders, and harassing ordinary citizens.
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/03/18/crimea-disappeared-man-found-killed
Crimean authorities should urgently conduct a thorough investigation into the enforced disappearance and subsequent killing of Reshat Ametov, a Crimean Tatar from the Simferopol region, and bring the perpetrators to justice.
Ametov’s relatives told Human Rights Watch that he was last seen during a protest on March 3, 2014, on Lenin Square in Simferopol, Ukraine, where three unidentified men in military-style jackets had led him away. Relatives’ efforts to locate him, including through a complaint to the police, were unsuccessful. On March 16, local police informed them that a body bearing marks of violent death had been found outside the town of Belogorsk. On March 17, the family identified the body as Ametov’s.
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Local media reports suggested that the body bore marks of torture and that there was transparent tape wrapped around Ametov’s head and hands. Human Rights Watch was not able to verify these reports, but Ametov’s relative said the local police told him that the death was registered as “violent.” Ametov’s relatives have not yet been able to retrieve either his body or the death certificate from the mortuary.
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/04/17/dispatches-many-russians-called-say-thanks-crimea-mr-putin
As much as this depresses me (I’m a Russian living in Moscow), I’m neither shocked nor surprised. Following the Crimea referendum, Putin’s approval ratings have approached an all-time high.
The state-driven propaganda surrounding Crimea was shocking and dangerous. Russian channels poured out hours of terrifying images of Kiev overtaken by “Nazis,” and terrifying messages about “atrocities” and threats to ethnic Russians in Ukraine, who were therefore in need of protection.
During today’s call-in show, Putin dismissed allegations of Russian intervention in eastern Ukraine, calling it “nonsense” and saying that the armed uprising is a purely local phenomenon. Talk about déjà vu. In Crimea, mysterious armed soldiers without insignia referred to by locals and journalists as the “polite green men” – a reference to movie aliens who appear out of nowhere – took effective control over the Crimean peninsula in the lead up to the “referendum” on the status of Crimea in March. Russian authorities continuously denied their involvement.
But during the show Putin finally admitted, very nonchalantly, that Russian troops had in fact played a role in Crimea. I can’t help wondering if Russia’s role in Donbass will be revealed in a future news conference, once the Kremlin is confident of public support.
http://www.un.org.ua/en/information-centre/news/1822
Ukraine: Misinformation, propaganda and incitement to hatred need to be urgently countered – UN human rights report
isinformation, propaganda and incitement to hatred need to be urgently countered in Ukraine to avoid the further escalation of tension in the country, according to a UN human rights report* issued on Tuesday.
The report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights looks at the root causes of the protests that have taken place since November 2013, including corruption and widespread economic inequality, as well as the lack of accountability for human rights violations by the security forces and weak rule of law institutions. It also assesses the human rights situation in Crimea, including in the context of the 16 March referendum, and makes recommendations for the way forward.
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The political aspects of recent developments in Crimea, which Mr Šimonoviæ visited on 21 and 22 March, are beyond the report’s scope.
However, the report notes that the situation created before and after the referendum of 16 March, which the General Assembly concluded had “no validity”, raised a number of human rights concerns pertaining to freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and other civil and political rights.