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Доклад Верховного комиссара ООН по правам человека о положении в области прав человека в Украине (A/HRC/27/75)

Author: Управління Верховного комісара ООН з прав людини
Year of publication: 2014
Describes Russian colonization of peoples: Ukrainians
Publication rights: free (a document of an intergovernmental body: free reproduction with attribution)

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Original source: https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/780616/files/A_HRC_27_75-RU.pdf

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Where the knowledge base cites it

This material is cited in 8 places.

Campaigns

• Derailing the Association with the EU (2013–2014)

  The refusal to sign the agreement triggered the protests: "between 21 November 2013 and 22 February 2014 large-scale street protests took place, provoked by the decision of then-President Viktor Yanukovych not to sign the association agreement with the European Union," and their suppression ended in shootings - on the Maidan "between January and February 2014 more than 100 people were killed, including by snipers"

• Continuation of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Armed Aggression in the Donbas (2014–2015)

  The expansion of Russian aggression through the seizure of administrative buildings in eastern Ukraine by armed detachments: "groups of armed men unlawfully carried out a well-organized and coordinated seizure of public buildings and police and security service offices in towns and villages of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions"

Procedures

• Continuation of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Armed Aggression in the Donbas (2014–2015) — technique Proxy War

  In parallel, "groups of armed men unlawfully carried out a well-organized and coordinated seizure of public buildings and police and security service offices"

• Continuation of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Armed Aggression in the Donbas (2014–2015) — technique Abduction of People

  Mass unlawful detentions and abductions of civilians in the occupied territories: "armed groups continued to commit abductions, to subject people to physical and psychological torture and ill-treatment," and "people were abducted for ransom, for forced labor, and for exchange for fighters captured by the Ukrainian authorities"

• Continuation of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Armed Aggression in the Donbas (2014–2015) — technique Torture and Abuse

  The systematic use of torture and physical violence against civilians for a pro-Ukrainian stance: the UN recorded that "armed groups continued to commit abductions, to subject people to physical and psychological torture and ill-treatment, and to commit other grave human rights violations"

• Continuation of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Armed Aggression in the Donbas (2014–2015) — technique Staging a Coup

  …of 2014 by storming regional administrations: the UN recorded that already "in mid-April 2014" "groups of armed men unlawfully carried out a well-organized and coordinated seizure of public buildings and police and security service offices in towns and villages of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions," and "in order to retain control of the seized areas these groups set up barricades and checkpoints"

• Continuation of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Armed Aggression in the Donbas (2014–2015) — technique Sponsoring Domestic Radical Groups

  The instigation of armed clashes in Odesa on May 2, 2014: the UN records the violence committed "in Odesa on 2 May 2014 during clashes between supporters of unity and supporters of the federalization of Ukraine, as a result of which 48 people died, mostly supporters of the country's federalization," and notes that "no one has yet been held to account"

• Continuation of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Armed Aggression in the Donbas (2014–2015) — technique Aggressor Claiming Victim Status

  The exploitation of the Odesa tragedy to build a state propaganda myth and invert the roles: the actual picture, per the UN, is clashes "between supporters of unity and supporters of the federalization of Ukraine, as a result of which 48 people died," while the investigation remains incomplete and "no one has yet been held to account"