Russia made a list of Ukrainians who must be killed or captured in the event of an invasion of Ukrainestated the United States in a letter sent to the UN human rights body and of which AFP got a copy this Sunday.
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The letter states that Washington is “deeply concerned” and warns of a potential “human rights catastrophe.” The United States has “reliable information indicating that Russian forces are drawing up lists of Ukrainians to be killed or sent to camps following a military occupation,” the letter said.
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“As well we have reliable information that the Russian forces would use lethal measures to disperse peaceful protests or in some way counteract the peaceful exercise of resistance by civilian populations,” adds the message addressed to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Chilean Michelle Bachelet.
The note, signed by the US ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Bathsheba Nell Crocker, warns that a Russian invasion of Ukraine would bring abuses such as kidnapping or torture, and could target political and religious dissidents and ethnic minorities.
In an email sent Monday to AFP, the UN human rights office confirmed that it received a letter this morning from the US Permanent Mission in Geneva. “We are evaluating her,” spokeswoman Elizabeth Throssell wrote.
Russia deployed more than 150,000 soldiers near the border with Ukraine In recent weeks, Moscow has denied that it plans to attack its neighbor, but seeks to obtain guarantees that Ukraine will not join NATO and that this alliance will remove its forces from Eastern Europe, something that the West has rejected.
AFP
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