DW: the Ukrainian authorities sabotage the trial of crimes on the Maidan

A year after the tragic events in Kyiv, when in the centre of the capital were shot protesters on the Maidan, international human rights organizations and Ukrainian activists reported deliberate sabotage by the authorities in the investigation of these events, writes the German Deutsche Welle.
on 18 February the head of the Public Commission of inquiry and the prevention of human rights violations in Ukraine Volodymyr Vasylenko said during a press conference in Kyiv that information public as active participants, crimes against participants of the Maidan was done much more than reported in the reports of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.

Inaction by the Ukrainian authorities regarding the investigation of crimes on the Maidan said and Director of the human rights organization Amnesty international (AI) Tatyana Mazur, adding that Kiev violates international standards. According to human rights activists, currently transgression condemned only 2 people, taking into account the hundreds received the detriment of the people.

According to the head of the largest parliamentary faction "Block Petro Poroshenko Yuriy Lutsenko, the authorities deliberately shielding the guilty in the deaths of dozens of people: the development of the parliamentary Commission of inquiry into crimes against participants of the Maidan pull" certain political forces ", quotes the journal of speech Lutsenko.

by the end of 2013 after the Declaration of the government of Mykola Azarov On the temporary suspension of the signing of the Treaty of Union with the EU, supporters of European integration has occupied the main square of Kiev - Independence square (Maidan).

later Maidan became the epicenter of conflict between the security forces and active participants. Numerous protests, called " euromilano held throughout Ukraine. The result of fights on the street, in which the radicals many times used small arms and Molotov cocktails, were dozens of casualties. Up to the present time trial events on the Maidan is not completed.

in Ukraine, 22 February, there was a coup d'etat, after which fresh authorities placed the responsibility for the deaths in the process of euromayday " in February 2014 at the former leadership of the country.


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