Prisoners line up during a prison exchange between Russia and Ukraine. Photo: Reuters
On Thursday afternoon, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) released a report showing its “concern” about the treatment of Russian military authorities apply to Ukrainian civilians in those known as filtration fields
Russia he is deporting to hundreds of thousands of people in the occupied areas of Ukraine (Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski assures that they are already More than a million) and interning them in those fields, some of which they would simply disappear.
The 119-page OSCE report, dated in Warsaw last Monday, assures us that “they are in these Russian camps.” brutal interrogations“Y “humiliating treatment”. The OSCE says there are “a score of structures of this type.
Russia is deporting hundreds of thousands of people from occupied areas in Ukraine. Photo: Reuters
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The text says that hundreds of thousands of people, evacuated from occupied places like Kherson or the port city of Mariupol, now razed to the ground, they have to go through those centers: “Your personal data is recorded, your fingerprints and your identity documents are copied”.
If the Russian authorities consider that these are people who worked for the Ukrainian administration or who were members of its armed forces or militias loyal to Kiev They are separated from others and usually disappear ”.
The OSCE report states that some of the people who pass through these “filtering” centers are subsequently deported again, this time in the territories in Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk.
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Ukrainian special forces at the Azovstal steel mill, later captured by Russia. Photo: AP file
When they arrive they are arrested and imprisoned, “Some killed”. The OSCE believes that “Russia uses these two entities (which only Russia recognizes as independent) for failure to comply with its international obligations“.
The text also explains the fate of those who manage to pass through these “filtration” centers alive. He ensures that “normally they are sent to Russia, with or without your consent“.
Russia considers them refugees at the UN Refugee Agency, but they have no protection as such and they are not provided with any help or social or employment rights.
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For the Ukrainian government it is simply deportation and murder, while for the Russian it is officially evacuate areas that could be dangerous to civilians for the course of the war.
Ukrainian soldiers, detained by Russia. Photo: AP
The OSCE affirms this the Russian government refused to cooperate for the preparation of the report. The editors of the text claim to have it sufficient proof to demonstrate that “manifest violations of rights” were committed from April to June which can be considered as war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The OSCE was created in 1975, at the height of the Cold War. It was about her helps dialogue between capitalist Europe and communist Europe. The OSCE has 57 member states, most of them European. Some from Central Asia, the United States and Canada also participate. His birth certificate is Final act of Helsinki.
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