Brief selections from and notes about the "Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine" released to the @UN_HRC, which recognizes Russian war crimes in Ukraine. 0/8
"The Commission has documented patterns of willful killings, unlawful confinement, torture, rape, and unlawful transfers of detainees in the areas that came under the control of Russian authorities in Ukraine." @UN_HRC 1/8
"The Commission has found a widespread pattern of torture and inhuman treatment committed by Russian authorities against people they detained." @UN_HRC 2/8
"The Commission has documented cases of sexual and gender-based violence involving women, men, and girls, aged from 4 to 82, in nine regions of Ukraine, and in the Russian Federation." @UN_HRC 3/8
"Rapes were committed at gunpoint, with extreme brutality and with acts of torture, such as beatings and strangling. Perpetrators at times threatened to kill the victim or her family, if she resisted." @UN_HRC 4/8
"The Commission has concluded that the situations it has examined concerning the transfer and deportation of children, within Ukraine and to the Russian Federation respectively, violate international humanitarian law, and amount to a war crime." @UN_HRC 5/8
NB from TS: Just because the Commission does not use the word "genocide" does not mean that these crimes do not constitute genocide. 6/8
NB from TS: Some of these acts, for example the deportation of children, plainly violate the genocide convention. 7/8
NB from TS: A finding of genocide involves a demonstration of intent in addition to the demonstration of the act. This is not difficult. 8/8
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