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Amnesty’s State Department and CIA ties make Ukrainian military crimes report all the more damning
Amnesty’s State Department and CIA ties make Ukrainian military crimes report all the more damning
Report by London-based human rights NGO incriminates Ukrainian army in deliberate deployment of troops inside schools… 06.08.2022, Sputnik International
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Amnesty International’s report on Ukrainian military deployments inside civilian areas and the use of tactics that endanger the lives of civilians is all the more damning given the anti-Russian bias of the organization and its ties to the US government and intelligence services, says American journalist and political commentator Don DeBar. The Observer recalled Amnesty Secretary General Agnes Callamard’s ties to a group known as Article 19, which took Washington’s position on the Ukraine crisis from day one after the coup. State of Maidan in 2014, and who declared at the start of the Russian military operation in February that it “stands in solidarity with the Ukrainian people in the face of the unprovoked acts of war by the Russian Federation”. against Russian forces from within residential areas. “This strongly suggests that the behavior of the Ukrainian armed forces was even more egregious than Amnesty reports,” said the observer. In its report, based on field research in the Donbass and the Kharkov and Nikolaev regions, the human rights watchdog detailed what Agnès Callamard described as “a model of Ukrainian forces putting the civilians in danger and violating the laws of war” by placing troops in schools and hospitals and launching strikes from residential areas to provoke a Russian response. that Russian forces had also engaged in illegal activities, including the use of “inherently indiscriminate cluster munitions” and “other wide-area explosive weapons”, echoing claims made in previous reports. The Russian military has consistently rejected these allegations, saying its attacks on Ukrainian forces involve the use of precision strike weapons and that it is taking steps to prevent civilian casualties. more testimonies, videos and other documents clearly demonstrating law-of-war-violating behavior by Ukrainian forces, is evidence of a growing “dilemma” for the United States and NATO “between their narrative of months and the facts revealed by the victims of this US-backed adventure.” Ultimately, DeBar argues that the reality on the ground in Ukraine runs counter to “the false narrative” launched by Washington “to to a greater degree every day,” “thus forcing the various Western propaganda outlets to slowly dismantle the web of lies so that they can maintain some measure of their remaining tattered credibility.” Ukrainian authorities have castigated Amnesty for its report, with President Lodymyr Zelensky accusing the rights group of trying “to amnesty the terrorist state and shift the blame from the aggressor to the victim.” Russian Narratives,” demanding that it be removed and rewritten, and blaming it for “disregarding the position of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.”
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The report by the London-based, human rights-focused NGO incriminating the Ukrainian army in the deliberate deployment of troops in schools, hospitals and residential areas drew sharp criticism from Kyiv, which accused Amnesty to blame the victims.
Amnesty International’s report on Ukrainian military deployments inside civilian areas and the use of tactics that endanger the lives of civilians is all the more damning given the anti-Russian bias of the organization and its ties to the US government and intelligence services, says American journalist and political commentator Don DeBar. .
“First, given that these documents come from Amnesty International, it is necessary to understand that the documents they have are probably presented in the least favorable way to Russia. It has long been well known that Amnesty has close ties to the US State Department and has shared senior staff with state-linked US NGOs and the CIA,” DeBar told Sputnik.
Despite “such obvious partisanship,” DeBar said, Amnesty nevertheless released a report based on eyewitness accounts detailing attacks by Ukrainian troops on Russian forces from inside residential areas. “This strongly suggests that the behavior of the Ukrainian armed forces was even more egregious than Amnesty reports,” said the observer.
DeBar says Amnesty’s report, following growing eyewitness accounts, videos and other documents clearly demonstrating law-of-war behavior by Ukrainian forces, is evidence of a ‘dilemma’ increasing for the United States and NATO “between their months”. – a long account and the facts as revealed by the victims of this adventure supported by the United States.
“The evidence will force some kind of reality check on the bogus narrative that has been peddled by the US and European media and their respective outlets,” the reporter stressed. Unfortunately, he suggested, “given the tightening of restrictions on independent and foreign media which continues to grow even today, it is less and less likely that this information will reach a mass audience in Europe and/or or in the United States”.
Ultimately, DeBar argues that the reality on the ground in Ukraine runs counter to the “false narrative” woven by Washington “more and more every day”, “thereby forcing the various Western propaganda outlets to slowly disassemble the network of lies so that they can maintain some measure of their remaining credibility in tatters.
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