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In what at first appears to be a neutral statement on the violence in Ukraine, urging “all sides to put down their arms” and condemning “strong hate speech from all sides”, United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay tacitly placed the blame on the people of Donetsk and Lugansk, who are the unspoken victims of aerial bombings and mortar shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Despite numerous reports, video and photographic evidence which confirm that the Ukraine Armed Forces have been targeting civilian areas, High Commissioner Navi Pillay –basing her statements on the report of the UN Monitoring Mission to Ukraine– is emphatic:

“both sides are equally to blame… and people are caught  in the crossfire between armed groups and the Ukrainian Government.”

Navi Pillay’s official statement on behalf of the United Nations is convoluted. It conveys the impression that the self-defense forces in Donesk and Lugansk rather than the Ukrainian Armed Forces including the National Guard are responsible for the abductions and killings not to mention the heavy outflow of people who are fleeing the region:

Pillay also noted that abductions by armed groups continue to be reported daily and that houses, schools and infrastructure, including water and electricity plants, have been damaged – in some cases severely enough to lead to power cuts.

The UN human rights monitoring team in Ukraine has received reports that armed groups are using the roofs of residential buildings to install anti-aircraft systems, and that they are occupying private apartments to organise sniper positions, seriously endangering residents who are not involved in the fighting. Shelling has also been reported in residential areas held by these armed groups.

The term  “armed groups” is used repeatedly by the UN Human Rights High Commissioner without revealing the identity of the “armed groups” and without clarifying who is responsible for the killings of innocent civilians.

These killings were ordered by the government of president Petro Poroshenko. The  evidence amply confirms that these killings are organized by the Armed Forces and National Guard.

Ms. Pillay is fully aware that civilian infrastructure, schools and residential areas were targeted by the Ukrainian Air Force, and that only government forces possess aircraft capable of conducting bombing raids.

According to Ms. Pillay, the Ukraine government confirmed “numerous cases of death of people in Donetsk and Luhansk who are caught in the middle of the ongoing security operations.”

This is not an “ongoing security operation”, it is an outright bombing and shelling operation directed against Ukrainian civilians led by Ukraine government forces. And Western military advisers are collaborating with government forces. 

According to the UN Human Rights Commissioner:

“We have received numerous alarming reports of deaths in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, including the killing of a five-year-old girl, due to the intensified security operations taking place since the ceasefire ended on Monday,… There have also been reports of the use of landmines, which have allegedly led to three deaths and left several people injured.”

“Such blatant incitement to violence is utterly reprehensible and a clear violation of international human rights law,…. There has been strong hate speech from all sides. I am deeply concerned about the safety of the people who remain trapped in Donetsk and Luhansk areas controlled by the armed groups and are caught in the crossfire between armed groups and the Ukrainian Government. I remind all those involved in the fighting that all measures must be taken to ensure that the fundamental human rights – including the right to life – of residents of these two regions is scrupulously respected.”

Ms. Pillay said that:

“she was particularly disturbed by a message on the website of one leader of the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’, which states that underage children and women are legitimate targets and that the goal is to ‘immerse them in horror’.”

Is the above statement an insinuation that the self defense armed groups are killing their own children?

The statement based on the report of the UN observer mission is notoriously ambiguous. There is something missing in Commissioner Pillay’s evaluation. She says she is disturbed that children are “legitimate targets”. Yet she fails to mention that Ukraine government forces and the National Guard  are killing children.

According to UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay:

“The Ukrainian Government has a duty to investigate every alleged extrajudicial killing and to bring the perpetrators to justice,”

Again, a contradictory statement.  She should know better than to ask a government to investigate itself.

Pillay also noted that abductions by armed groups continue to be reported daily and that houses, schools and infrastructure, including water and electricity plants, have been damaged – in some cases severely enough to lead to power cuts. The UN human rights monitoring team in Ukraine has received reports that armed groups are using the roofs of residential buildings to install anti-aircraft systems, and that they are occupying private apartments to organise sniper positions, seriously endangering residents who are not involved in the fighting. Shelling has also been reported in residential areas held by these armed groups.

“More and more residents of Luhansk and Donetsk regions are being forced to flee their homes, while others are trapped in zones of heavy fighting, as their fundamental human rights are trampled upon and a climate of insecurity and fear becomes increasingly pervasive,” Pillay said. “I urge all sides to put down their arms, to engage in dialogue and to turn away from the destructive path towards which they are leading the east of Ukraine.”

Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay’s statements are in blatant violation of the mandate of the United Nations:

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has lead responsibility for the promotion and protection of human rights, … It has been given a unique mandate by the international community, through the General Assembly, to do so.

We [the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR] … receive and consider direct complaints from victims of human rights violations, and appeal to governments on behalf of victims

We work to ensure the implementation of international human rights standards on the ground ... [We] are reaching out to the people who need it the most. (OHCHR website) 

The OHCHR under the helm of High Commissioner Navi Pillay is involved in the coverup of crimes against humanity.

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“Appealing to governments on behalf of the victims” when the government is the perpetrator of these atrocities and the OHCHR has been instructed not to identify in its reports the perpetrator of war crimes.

That government to which the OHCHR is “appealing” considers the Russian speaking Ukrainians as “subhumans”.

Image Source : Embassy of Ukraine in the United States, 15 June 2014.

We encourage Ms. Pillay to examine the evidence which clearly confirms the responsibility of the US-EU supported Ukrainian Government in the massacres and destruction perpetrated in Donesk and Lugansk.

What we are dealing with are extensive crimes against humanity. And the United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner describes these civilian deaths as “Collateral Damage”.

Here are pictures of the “collateral damage” caused by the Ukraine’s Air Force’s aerial bombings:



click to access the complete photo album:

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In the videos below, the war crimes committed by both the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the National Guard are carefully documented.

The National Guard –which is supported and financed by the West– is controlled by Neo-Nazis with Nazi emblems.  The United Nations is silent on the matter.

According to the OHCHR, there are no Neo-Nazi in the government and the Armed Forces.  According to Navi Pillay, “both sides are equally to blame”. “Those who are Neo-Nazis” are on one side, and “those who are defending themselves against the Neo-Nazis are on the other side”.  The Self Defense units in Eastern Ukraine are rebelling against a government in which the two Neo-Nazi parties (Right Sector and Svoboda) control the Armed Forces and the National Guard.

Below is the Nazi emblem of the National Guard  [Національна гвардія України] which is defined as Reserves of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

They operate under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.  The National Guard is part of the so-called “Internal Troops of Ukraine.” The official emblem of the National Guard is a stylized swastika (see below).


Imagine what would happen if the US National Guard were to display swastika-like symbols.

Below are the Nazi symbols of the National Guard’s Azov Battalion, which is actively involved in the “security operation” in Eastern Ukraine. And UN Human Rights High Commissioner Navi Pillay says that “Both Sides are to Blame”.  Ms. Navi Pillay  “has Blood on Her Hands”.