Ukraine's Right Sector Kidnaps People, Demands Ransom - Amnesty Int'l (sputniknews)
Militants of the Ukrainian nationalist Right Sector group use unconventional fighting methods and commit war crimes, according to a report released by the international human rights organization Amnesty International.
17:27 22.05.2015(updated 18:43 22.05.2015)
The international human rights organization Amnesty International reports that both Ukrainian troops and supporters of independence of Donbass have resorted to using unconventional fighting methods and committing war crimes.
The 36-page report singles out the Ukrainian far-right nationalist group Right Sector, which it claims has taken dozens of civilian prisoners as hostages, brutally torturing them and extorting large amounts of money from them and their families.
The report also mentioned widespread prisoner abuse by a wide array of captors on both sides of the conflict.
"More than 30 former prisoners held by both sides gave us consistent and harrowing accounts of their captors’ abuse", according to John Dalhuisen, the director of the Europe and Central Asia Program at Amnesty International.
He added that "prisoners on both sides have been beaten and subjected to mock executions".
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Daily War Crimes Committed By All Sides In Ukraine: Amnesty Report
The Associated Press
Published Friday, May 22, 2015 9:42AM EDT
KIEV, Ukraine -- Both warring sides in eastern Ukraine are perpetrating war crimes almost daily, including torturing prisoners and summarily killing them, the Amnesty International rights group said in a report Friday.
Amnesty said in a statement that it has heard from former captives of both Ukrainian government and separatist forces who say they faced savage beatings, torture with electric shocks, kicking and stabbings.
Concern about the treatment of prisoners comes as Ukrainian authorities face scrutiny this week for publicly parading two men they say were Russian soldiers captured while fighting alongside separatists.
Hundreds of Ukrainian troops are believed to have been captured by rebel forces in the yearlong war that has claimed more than 6,100 lives. Both sides routinely accuse one another of mistreating captives. Under a February peace agreement, all war prisoners had been due for release in early March, but little progress has been achieved.
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