Amal Clooney: “Ukraine is a slaughterhouse”

amal clooneythe famous human rights lawyer and wife of American actor George Clooney, urged countries to collect and preserve evidence of atrocities committed in Ukraine with one dramatic sentence: “Ukraine is now a slaughterhouse.”

Speaking at the United Nations in New York on Wednesday, he also said he was scared politicians are confused on other issues and may be “desensitized” to conflict.

Clooney is part of an international legal task force advising Ukraine on getting justice for victims of war crimes.

Find those responsible

Several countries and organizations, including the UN, pledged on Wednesday bring to justice those responsible for war crimes made during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

They encouraged Clooney. “My fear is that we will be busy and interrupted, that every day there is less incidence of war and people are becoming lazy about it,” the lawyer said at an informal Security meeting. Council.

“And (another fear is) Ukraine I ended up pursuing the perpetrators of these atrocities alone. We can’t allow that to happen, ”said Amal, who heads the Clooney Foundation for Justice with his wife.

Albanian Foreign Minister Olta Xhacka said “the perpetrators of these crimes should and is responsible“.

Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, insisted that victims and their families “need to get effective remedies for the damage and tragedy they face.”

He said his office has so far “documented and verified 5,939 civilian victims, of which 2,787 have been killed and 3,152 injured.”

“The current number is very high, and my office is working to calculate them,” he added, noting that most of the deaths and injuries were victims of “the use of explosive weapons that have an impact on widespread and crowded places, such as heavy artillery.shelling, missiles and air strikes.

The Prosecutor General of Ukraine Iryna Venediktova said in a video that she opened more than 8,000 investigations in alleged war -related violations in the light of humanitarian law.

International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan said a record number of 43 countries had referred the situation in Ukraine to his organization.

“The laws apply equally to all sides. All parties to the conflict, be it in Ukraine or in the Russian Federation, whether they are official actors or not, have certain obligations,” he said. promising to conduct “independent investigations.”

Russia, for its part, accused Ukraine of committing abuses and he said he treats the ICC as a biased court.

Furthermore, Russia denies having committed war crimes and blames the West and Ukraine for setting up a stage to accuse Moscow of something it did not do.

Dmitry Feoktistov, Russia’s ambassador to Argentina, assured that the war in Ukraine included “drills organized by several Western countries and implemented by Ukrainian ultranationalists, who aimed to accuse their country of crimes against humanity.

In addition, the diplomat denounced “the opponents of the West they are not concerned with the truth, but for the implementation of the policy of inciting anti-Russian hysteria. “

Source: agencies

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