It's easy to get distracted by the grotesqueness of Russia's crass propaganda about Ukraine, but we shouldn't let that distract us from the pursuit of accountability for Russian war crimes in Ukraine.
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We've never seen a situation where there's so much evidence of war crimes and so much engagement with the accountability community in that evidence. You just have to look at our civilian harm map to get a sense of that bellingcat.com/news/2022/03/1…
It's important to respond to disinformation and propaganda, but we shouldn't allow that to distract us from the opportunities for accountability that present themselves. We know Russian authorities lie constantly and shamelessly, they've done it for years, that's not news.
Accountability should be the focus of everyone, and the obsession around disinformation can unfortunately act as a distraction from this, seeing war crimes in terms of the lies that are told rather than the truths that can be found.
I've had *a lot* of people asking to speak to Bellingcat about Russian disinformation over the last few weeks, but it's time we move the conversation on from that & focus on accountability & ensuring the crimes of today aren't forgotten for the political conveniences of tomorrow
Because we can see that happening today with Syria, where a war criminal responsible for murdering his own population with sarin and chlorine is being treated to trips abroad to meet with world leaders. bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…
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