Video from Open Society Foundations
"Oleksandra Matviichuk leads Ukraine’s Centre for Civil Liberties (CCL)—the first Ukrainian organization to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, for its work in defense of human rights. Since Russia began its aggression against Ukraine in 2014, CCL has been focused on documenting war crimes and other abuses perpetrated by its forces. Matviichuk works with a network of civilian investigators who have recorded tens of thousands of often horrific individual cases of suffering—work being done by ordinary people who have taken on extraordinary challenges for the sake of accountability, justice, and the future of their country. Open Society’s foundation in Ukraine—the International Renaissance Foundation—is proud to be a core supporter of CCL, just one of the many civilian organizations whose courage and commitment continue to play a vital role in Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s criminal aggression.' from video introduction
Politics plays the blame game. Politics can be and often is a evil human endeavor.
No matter the grievances of Putin or others the destruction of a society and the unfettered killing of men, women and children has no defense.
We must all pray for the end to this carnage and evil!
‘Accountability Gap’: Nobel Peace Prize Winner Warns Russian War Crimes Going Unpunished
"Oleksandra Matviichuk has a point she wants to make. The Ukrainian lawyer heads the Centre for Civil Liberties, a human rights organisation that this month jointly won the Nobel peace prize. And she wants to use her platform to call for international action against Russian human rights violations now.
The body she heads has patiently documented more than 21,000 examples of war crimes committed by occupying Russian forces since 2014, including many from after the invasion in February. But, speaking quietly and with controlled emotion, she complains: “I haven’t any legal instrument to stop the Russian atrocities” – no immediate way of bringing perpetrators to court.
The criminality appears vast when listed. “After the large-scale invasion, we every day documented different kinds of war crimes, like intentional shelling of residential buildings, churches, hospitals, schools, the shelling of evacuation corridors,” Matviichuk says. “We received requests for help from people in the occupied territories because they were abducted, tortured; we recorded sexual violence, extrajudicial killings.”.." from the article: ‘Accountability gap’: Nobel peace prize winner warns Russian war crimes going unpunished
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