Ukraine: Amnesty accuses of torture, both sides – BBC Russian

• 22 May 2015

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The authors of the report say that they collected evidence points to the fact that all parties to the conflict can be guilty of war crimes

The human rights organization Amnesty International published a report in which it accused the military as a self-proclaimed supporters of the NPT and the LC and the security forces of Ukraine in the torture of the prisoners.

According to the organization, collected mainly in the spring of this year, prisoners were beaten to bone fractures, tortured using stun, inflict stab wounds, suspended, deprived of sleep, subjected them to the simulation execution, and regularly threatened them and denied medical help.

The report is based on the testimony of the military, 17 of which were in the thrall of armed supporters of the NPT and the LC, and 16 – the military Ukrainian army and other law enforcement bodies of the country and the Security Service.

New evidence of torture and kills

Former prisoners showed Amnesty International staff X-rays of broken bones, reference hospital, photos, scars and broken teeth.

The report’s authors argue that they collected evidence indicates, that all parties to the conflict may be guilty of war crimes.

Amnesty International also argues that it was able to identify three specific cases of murder of Ukrainian military forces of the separatists, as they say in the report.

Armed supporters of the NPT and LC are often accused of abusing prisoners

The human rights organization says convincing documented evidence of the murder of Ukrainian soldier Igor Branovitskiy commander based in Donetsk group “Sparta” Arseny “Motorola” Pavlov.

Amnesty International has received evidence from two former prisoners, who saw a murder committed by January 21, 2015. According to them, Branovitskiy, who was captured along with 12 other Ukrainian military during the battle for the airport of Donetsk, was first severely beaten by men of the battalion “Sparta”, and then shot in the head by Pavlov.

Lawlessness and violence

Amnesty International stresses that serious concern with regard to crimes against prisoners of war, cause actions of armed groups. However, the organization adds that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the formation of non-formal structures of both parties seem to be more susceptible to lawlessness and violence against the prisoners.

According to Amnesty, the formation of semi-autonomous armed supporters DNR and the LC, including the battalion “Ghost”, based in Alchevsk, and a battalion of “Sparta” from Donetsk, are especially cruelty to prisoners.

With the pro-government party of particular concern Amnesty International cause of action “right sector “.

According to Amnesty, the Ukrainian military treat prisoners no better than DNR and armed supporters LC

The human rights organization said that the most serious incidents took place not in official places of detention (prisons and police stations) and informal, unofficial detention centers. Prisoners are usually found in such places in the initial period of detention, often only a few days, but sometimes much longer.

Among the informal places of detention by the pro-government forces of former prisoners mention the building of the Institute in Slavyansk, in Volnovakha Station and bomb shelter nearby from the Slavic.

Former prisoners who were detained in armed supporters of the LC and the DNI, saying that they were kept in the former site of the traffic police in Alchevsk, shooting battalion “Sparta” near the Donetsk airport, and other places.

“Right Sector” rejects accusations

Amnesty International also describes in detail the torture of prisoners, stressing that the most active soldiers used torture “Right Sector” by pro-government forces, and “Sparta” and “Ghost” by armed supporters of the NPT and the LC.

Amnesty also noted that both sides being captured civilians who “have committed no crime, but sympathize with the other side “.

” Right Sector “has rejected claims Amnesty International. The representative of the “Right Sector” Artem Skoropadsky in an interview with BBC Ukrainian Service BBC said that his organization does not attempt to prisoners and requires no ransom from their families.

According to him, the prisoners camp not far from Dnepropetrovsk mentioned in the report of Amnesty International, it is a base of the battalion. He said that the prisoners were kept there only during the preliminary interrogation, after which they were transferred into the hands of the security services.

Skoropadskyi said that prisoners were on this basis no more than a few days, as during the active hostilities have Battalion had no vehicle to transport them.