The United Nations Mission on Human Rights Violations Due to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine will investigate the fallout from the recent rupture of the Kakhovka Dam, a United Nations spokesman confirmed on Wednesday.
According to United Nations Human Rights Office spokesman Pascal Lim, the independent international commission of inquiry in Ukraine, set up last year by the UN Human Rights Council, will “investigate the consequences of the dam’s failure”. of those affected.
The mission is led by Norwegian Erik Mose and included Colombian Pablo de Greiff and Bosnian Jasminka Dzumhur.
These experts have already issued reports accusing Russia of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine, including murder, summary execution, torture and inhumane treatment, rape and forced deportation.
The UN mission also documented human rights abuses committed by the Ukrainian armed forces, including indiscriminate attacks, and at least two war crime incidents in which detainees were killed, injured and tortured.
The aim of the mission is to obtain evidence as quickly as possible that can be used to bring the perpetrators of war crimes to justice, at a time when the International Criminal Court in The Hague has already opened investigative processes.
Source: DN
