Lemmi kirjoitti:YK:n kidutuksen vastainen alikomitea on keskeyttänyt vierailunsa Ukrainaan tiedottaa YK.
Syyksi YK ilmoittaa Ukrainan kieltäneen komitean jäsenten pääsyn lukuisiin paikkoihin missä komitea epäilee Ukrainan turvallisuuspalvelun riistäneen ihmisten vapaudet.
The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) has suspended its visit to Ukraine after being denied access to places in several parts of the country where it suspects people are being deprived of their liberty by the Security Service of Ukraine, the SBU.
Citing obstruction, UN torture prevention panel suspends Ukraine visit
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=54041
Komitealla on mandaatti YK:n kidutuksen ja epäinhimillisen kohtelun sopimuksen allekirjoittajamaiden ennalta ilmoittamattomiin tarkastuksiin. Ukraina on komitean historiassa toinen maa, joka on estänyt komiteaa toteuttamasta tarkastusta, joka kohdistuu väitteisiin Ukrainan turvallisuuspalvelun harjoittamasta kidutuksesta monissa paikoissa Ukrainassa.
Tässä nimimerkki Lemmin esille tuomassa tapauksessa tiivistyy hyvin yksi keskeinen Venäjän sotapropagandan tavoite. Ukraina pyritään esittämään "fasistien" johtamalta valtiolta, joka rikkoo ihmisoikeuksia ja kv. sopimuksia. Saattamalla Ukrainan lännessä huonoon valoon pyritään vaikuttamaan lännen tukeen Ukrainalle. Ukrainan etu epäilemättä olisi sallia kaikki mahdollinen sopimusten mukainen tarkastustoiminta alueilla, joita se hallitsee (Venäjän tukemia kapinallisalueita se ei pysty valvomaan)
Esimerkiksi tästä YK:n keskeytyneestä tarkistusmatka Lemmi oli tietysti poiminut vain Ukrainan mustaavan kohdan. Kun asiaa sitten lähdetään tutkimaan kannattaa lukea ensinnäkin tämä New York Timesin artikkeli, jossa selostetaan varsin objektiivisesti mitä tapahtui ja mihin tämä tarkastusmatka ja sen keskeytyminen perustui.
U.N. Suspends Torture Inquiry in Ukraine (NYT 26.5.2016)
The end of the team’s weeklong trip a day earlier than scheduled comes at a time when Ukraine’s government is trying to demonstrate that it can be a bastion of European values, even as it is engaged in a bloody conflict in eastern Ukraine with Russian-backed rebel militias.
Venäjän propagandan eräänä taktiikkana on hämärtää kokonaiskuva ja tuoda Ukrainalle epämieluisia yksityiskohtia esille ja paisutella niitä. Sen tarkoitus on saada Ukrainan konflikti näyttämään ”lännen” aikaansaannoksena. Näin pyritään sumentamaan se tosiseikka, että Venäjä on vastuussa konfliktista ja tukee monin tavoin Ukrainan itäosien kapinallisryhmiä, jotka se itse ensin perusti hyökättyään sitä ennen Krimille.
NYT toteaa:
Most of the accusations of rights abuses in the war have involved the rebels. But the United Nations team had been in Ukraine since May 19 trying to investigate what rights groups have said are signs of detainee abuse by the SBU.
Miten Ukraina selitti tarkastuksen keskeytymisen?
Natalya I. Sevostyanova, a deputy justice minister in Ukraine, said on Thursday that the United Nations investigative team had been denied access to SBU centers in Mariupol and Kramatorsk. Both are front-line towns that have been under regular shelling by rebel artillery that has killed dozens of civilians.
Vasyl S. Hrytsak, the SBU director, denied that detainees were being held at the local offices of the security services in the two towns. He could not permit the United Nations team to visit, he said, because the offices held weapons and documents that he was not obliged to share with the agency.
“If you arrive, for example, in the United States and ask to come to the C.I.A. or the F.B.I., to visit a basement or an office, do you think they will ever let you do it?” he told the Ukrainian news media.
Entä pääsevätkö tarkastajat kapinallisryhmien hallitsemille alueille?
International organizations are rarely granted access to rebel detention centers, such as a sprawling former art gallery converted into a prison in Donetsk.
Venäjän tukemat kapinalliset jopa pitävät YK:n tarkastajia vankeina:
Some United Nations representatives have been detained themselves. One employee, Yury Suprun, has been held since April 12 by the Donetsk People’s Republic. According to Mr. Hrytsak, the SBU director, Ukraine provided the United Nations mission with access to about 600 detainees, compared with only four people held by separatists.
The United Nations has expressed a deep concern that one of its staff members is being held captive in Donetsk. According to the available information, the staff member is being treated well.
The UN has mobilized all channels to ensure his immediate and unconditional release. The UN appeals to all parties, including the media, to respect the staff member and his family in this sensitive phase of the discussion around his release.
http://www.un.org/sg/spokesperson/highl ... _year=2016
Tilanne Itä-Ukrainassa ei todellakaan hyvältä näytä sota jatkuu ja mitä pidemmälle se jatkuu pelkäänpä pahoin raakuuksien tulevan yhä arkipäiväisemmiksi, myös Ukrainan hallituksen hallitsemilla alueilla, joista on myös YK:n raportteja väärinkäytöksistä.
YK:n ihmisoikeuksista Ukrainassa raportoitiin viimeksi 3.6.2016.
Ukraine: after two years of conflict, situation in east remains “grim” – UN report
The 2.7 million people living in armed group-controlled areas are also suffering from the severe curtailing of their freedoms of expression, assembly and association, and are faced with tough living conditions. “During my mission to Donetsk, I urged the representatives of the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ to allow access for humanitarian actors and to stop depriving the population of humanitarian assistance,” Simonovic said.
The new UN report also documents persistent patterns of human rights violations in eastern Ukraine. “Enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment remain deeply entrenched practices, both in the territories controlled by the armed groups and in the territories controlled by the Government,” it says.
Raportissa puututaan myös Venäjän itseensä väkivalloin liittämän Krimin tilanteeseen:
Simonovic also highlighted the deteriorating human rights situation in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea**. “Anti-extremism and anti-terrorism laws have been used to criminalize non-violent behaviour and stifle dissenting opinion, while the judicial and law enforcement systems have been instrumentalized to clamp down on opposition voices. Worst affected are Crimean Tatars, whose main representatives bodies, Mejlis, has been banned, and whose representatives I met during my visit,” said the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights.
“After two years of conflict, the human rights picture in eastern Ukraine remains extremely grim. This crisis started with demands for human rights and freedoms, and these demands remain today on either side of the contact line. Leaders should listen to their people on both sides. I have heard them loud and clear: they want peace, human rights and rule of law,” Simonovic said.
Ukraine: after two years of conflict, situation in east remains “grim” – UN report
http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Page ... GNIvj.dpuf
