The human rights NGO has collected testimonials, especially on summary executions and a repeated rape committed by Russian soldiers.
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Summary executions, rapes, looting, violence and threats against civilians. In a report published Sunday, April 3, Human Rights Watch (HRW) documents several cases of “apparent war crimes” committed by the Russians in the areas of Chernihiv, Kharkiv and kyiv, Ukraine. “The cases we have documented testify to the indembrable and deliberate cruelty and violence against Ukrainian civilians,” said Hugh Williamson, Director of the Europe and Central Asia Division of the Rights Organization The man. The rape, murders and other acts of violence against persons detained by the Russian forces should be investigated as war crimes. “
On March 4, in Bantha, the Russian forces thus “apprehended five men and summarily executed one of them”, according to a testimony collected by the NGO. The soldiers forced the five men to kneel on the edge of the road, they covered their heads with their t-shirts and shot down one by pulling him behind the head, told this witness.
Other summary executions were committed on February 27, in the village of Staryi Bykiv, in the region of Chernihiv, according to the mother of one of the victims. The Russians have apprehended six men and executed them, testified this woman. It was nearby when his son and another man were seized, and saw the bodies of six victims.
Human Rights Watch collected the story of ten people in all, “including witnesses, victims and residents of the territories occupied by Russia, in person or by telephone”. Many wanted to respond under anonymity, by security measure.
Repeated rape
Other violence against civilians could be documented in the village of Vorzel, about 50 kilometers northwest of kyiv. On March 6, Russian soldiers threw a smoke grenade into a subsoil where several people had taken refuge. “When panicked people tried to flee the basement, the soldiers opened fire, touching a 14-year-old woman and a teenager,” said a witness. The boy was killed on the spot. A woman was injured. It succumbed the timber.
Russians also seem to use another weapon of war: rape. A woman testified to have been raped by a Russian soldier several times in a school in the Kharkiv region where she had found refuge with her family on March 13. She told having been beaten and lacerated in the face and neck with a knife. She was able to flee the next day and took refuge in Kharkiv, where she was able to receive care. The human rights NGO has been able to see its face wounds on two photographs sent by the victim.
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