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May 24 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Today marks 3 months since Russia's renewed invasion of #Ukraine.

In that time, Human Rights Watch has documented:

⚠️ summary executions;

⚠️ enforced disappearances;

⚠️ torture;

⚠️ sexual violence;

⚠️ arbitrary detentions.

Among other crimes. All by Russian forces.
I say "renewed" invasion, because this war really started with Russia's invasion of Ukraine 8 years ago.

We have been documenting grave abuses the whole time, including in areas under occupation by Russia and its proxies.
We have been documenting these crimes and pushing for justice for the victims.

And we've also spent a considerable amount of tiime and effort trying to explain the "laws of war" and what the pathways to justice are...
Obviously, we've looked a lot at things like indiscriminate shelling & bombing:

We've also looked at violations against prisoners of war, something that points to both sides:

We've also looked at the wider subjects that Russia's invasion has triggered, like refugee-related issues in the EU:

As well as censorship and the mass arrests of anti-war protestors in #Russia:
We've been looking into the issue of forced transfers of population from Ukraine to Russia & Russia-controlled breakaway regions. (on that, by the way, we'll publish another short piece hopefully this week, and then a longer report in June)

Our report on the crimes in #Bucha and other areas in northern #Ukraine while under Russian occupation was probably our best-read report ever.

We don't only investigate and report on these crimes in #Ukraine. We help bring them to the attention of world leaders who can act to help support justice efforts.

We did exactly this at the UN Security Council recently...

Just last week, we issued another key report on serious crimes in areas under Russian occupation in #Ukraine...

This is the largest crisis that Europe has seen in my lifetime, and I am proud to be part of a team that is playing an important role in reporting atrocity crimes with a goal to seeing perpetrators brought to justice.

For all our recent work see: hrw.org/tag/russia-ukr…

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May 25
Another day, another mass murder in the US: 19 students and 2 adults shot dead at Texas elementary school.

We don't have these constant horrors in Europe, because we have sensible gun regulation here.

Having safer societies is a political choice.

theguardian.com/us-news/2022/m… Image
After every horror like this, there's a part of the US that says, "don't make it political", but of course it's political.

Our security is a political issue.

We elect politicians to keep us and our kids safe.

Politicians make laws - or not - that have consequences.
Then you have the false founding fathers fetishists in the US, who point to half a line in the #2A of the Constitution, deliberately ignoring the other half of that line, which bases gun ownership on the need for "A well regulated Militia".

Fact: The framers were pro-regulation
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May 25
Romani refugees from #Ukraine face segregation in #Moldova.

Authorities are deliberately housing most Romani refugees separately from others fleeing the war next door, in a manner that constitutes unequal & discriminatory treatment.

New reporting from Human Rights Watch…
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Since 24 February, more than 471,000 refugees have crossed into #Moldova from #Ukraine, the highest per capita influx to a neighboring country.

About 87,700 refugees have stayed in Moldova, one of the poorest countries in Europe.
Moldovan authorities have offered critical support to people fleeing #Ukraine, which isn't easy for a relatively poor country, but there can be no excuse for ethnic segregation of refugees.
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May 25
In the rush to connect kids to virtual classrooms during the Covid-19 pandemic, many governments failed to check that their education technology recommendations were safe.

The result: Children are being surveilled.

New report from Human Rights Watch: hrw.org/news/2022/05/2…
Governments of 49 of the world’s most populous countries harmed children’s rights by endorsing online learning products during Covid-19 school closures without adequately protecting children’s privacy. Image
Of the 164 EdTech products reviewed, 146 appeared to engage in data practices that risked or infringed on children’s rights.

That’s 89%.
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May 24
"Thousands of photos from the heart of #China’s highly secretive system of mass incarceration in #Xinjiang, as well as a shoot-to-kill policy for those who try to escape, are among a huge cache of data hacked from police computer servers..." - BBC
bbc.co.uk/news/extra/85q…
A reminder that UN human rights chief @mbachelet is currently on a highly controversial visit to China...

China's government is committing crimes against humanity in #Xinjiang.

Human Rights Watch has documented:

- mass arbitrary detention
- torture
- forced disappearance
- mass surveillance
- cultural/religious erasure
- separating families
- forced labor
- sexual violence
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May 23
I went to school in the US in the 70s & 80s. In no US history class did anyone ever mention:

The Tulsa massacre: hrw.org/news/2021/05/2…

The Elaine massacre: theguardian.com/us-news/2021/j…

“Sundown towns”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_t…

To name just 3 things I only learned about later. Image
I honestly doubt my grade school & high school teachers even knew much about these things themselves. They were likely never taught about them either.

These horrors certainly weren’t in the history books we used.
That’s how white supremacy is baked into the system: ignorance of history transfers from one generation to the next.
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May 23
🤔 Did you know that TODAY is:

"EU Day Against Impunity for Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes"?

I'm guessing most people didn't know...

It's probably not marked on your calendar.

But it is worth some of your brain space today.

Here's why...

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First, let's talk about the word: IMPUNITY.

It's not a common word in general usage.

But it should be, because it describes the roots of so many of our current political problems: powerful people getting away with crimes.

You'd think we'd see it in the media 50 times a day. Image
Powerful people get away with crimes, and so they keep committing those crimes.

The failure to bring criminals to justice is a green light to commit more crimes.

Corruption, abuse of office, election rigging...

And, what this day is about specifically: mass atrocity crimes.
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