Duma speaker demands intl tribunal for people responsible for crimes in eastern Ukraine
GENEVA. Oct 3 (Interfax) - Russia demands the establishment of an international tribunal for investigating crimes committed in southeastern Ukraine, says Russian State Duma Chairman Sergei Naryshkin.
"We demand an international tribunal for those responsible for these crimes against humanity," Naryshkin said in addressing the participants in an OSCE Parliamentary Assembly session that opened in Geneva on Friday.
Such notions as duty and honor, compassion and minimization of damage, and the triumph of justice and law have been "reduced to zero" in a very short time, he said.
"A new cold war has easily sacrificed them in favor of unjust unilateral actions," he said.
"International law and its institutions have given up to informational and ideological terror," he added.
Using these institutions, those guilty have been named arbitrarily without any proof and bypassing any legal procedures, "and all the rest have been forced to listen to nonsense and keep silent," he said.
"This was following the Khatyn-style events in Odesa, and following the deliberate bombardment of residential homes in eastern Ukraine, following the killings of journalists, and even following the Malaysian Boeing's crash," he said.
The Ukrainian authorities are entirely responsible for security of Ukrainian airspace, he said.
"The search for those guilty of all these and other blatant crimes has been hampered purposefully," he said.
"Will it really be the same as regards the mass graves? A lot of brutally tortured and slain people have been found near Donetsk, on territories only recently controlled by Kyiv, and new and new secret graves have been discovered," Naryshkin said.
This information not only aggravates the statistics of those killed but also sheds light on real methods used by Kyiv in its dialogue with the southeastern part of Ukraine, he said.