Photo CC BY ND 4.0: OSCE / Evgeniy Maloletka. Some rights reserved.Two Ukrainian civic organisations, the Kharkiv Human Rights Group and Shore of Peace, recently published a report into violent crimes committed in the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine in 2014-2018.
Examining the destruction of residential neighbourhoods and infrastructure, unlawful arrests, torture and arbitrary executions, rights campaigners see signs of violent crime and crimes against humanity as defined by the 1998 Rome Statute. And in parallel with the report, these organisations are compiling a presentation to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is due to be sent to The Hague in the near future.
I talked to Yevgen Zakharov, director of the Kharkiv Human Rights Group, about the prospects of these crimes being investigated.
