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UN rights chief sees ‘horror story’ of violations in Ukraine
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BERLIN, 23 April 2022, (TON): United Nations’ human rights office pointed to what it said is growing evidence of war crimes since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, declaring that humanitarian law appears to have been tossed aside.”
Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said “our work to date has detailed a horror story of violations perpetrated against civilians.”
Her office’s mission in Ukraine so far has verified 5,264 civilian casualties, including 2,345 deaths, since the war began on Feb. 24.
It said “92.3% of those were recorded in Ukrainian government-controlled territory.”
The office uses strict methodology and has long acknowledged that its confirmed figures are far short of the real numbers.
She added “over these eight weeks, international humanitarian law has not merely been ignored but seemingly tossed aside.”
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