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July 28, 2014

U.N.: Plane Downing Likely a War Crime; Over 1,100 Killed in Eastern Ukraine Since April 
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Ukraine has seen intensified violence in recent months as the
U.S.-backed Kiev government steps up attacks on rebel-held areas.
Earlier today, the United Nations' top human rights official, Navi
Pillay, said at least 1,129 people have been killed and more than 3,400
wounded since mid-April. Some 200,000 have also been displaced. A
spokesperson for Pillay said the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17
may amount to a war crime, and warned of increasing abuses in rebel-held
areas.

Gianni Magazzeni: "The high commissioner has indicated this may amount
to a war crime. … There has been a serious deterioration of the
situation in the areas of the east controlled still by these armed
groups. These include abductions, detentions, torture, executions, which
are used to intimidate the population, which is often held as hostage or
trapped in this pocket of territories in the Donetsk and Luhansk
region."

 

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