No thorough or reliable data is available on the number of abductions, the rights group said. But figures from Ukraine's interior ministry show there were almost 500 abductions between April and June, and the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission for Ukraine reported 222 cases in that time, it said.
"There is also evidence of a smaller number of abuses by pro-Kiev forces," he added.
In the report Amnesty cites pro-Ukraine activist Hanna, who was abducted by armed men in Donetsk in May, as saying: "At the end of the interrogation 'Pray now - I'm going to kill you', and then he slit my neck with the knife."
It also says an unnamed local government official in Mariupol reported having heard a captured separatist fighter "wailing in pain at the hands of pro-Kiev forces who were seemingly trying to extract information about the separatists".
Amnesty said a research team that went to Kiev and southeastern Ukraine and spoke with self-help groups had a list of more than 100 civilians who had been abducted and said in most of these instances allegations of torture had been made.
Amnesty said people including officials, the military, the police, politicians, electoral commission members and business people had been abducted in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
It said the majority of abductions were being carried out for political reasons, though some were intended to instil fear in the local population and others were for ransoms.
It cites one 19-year-old pro-Ukraine activist who was taken captive by separatists at gunpoint as saying: "They beat me with their fists, a chair, anything they could find. They stubbed out cigarettes on my leg and electrocuted me. It went on for so long I couldn't feel anything anymore, I just passed out."....................http://www.todayonline.com/world/human-rights-group-sees-growing-proof-abductions-torture-ukraine
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Ukraine conflict: Many soldiers dead in 'rocket strike'...
ReplyDeleteA rocket strike in the east Ukrainian region of Luhansk has killed up to 30 soldiers, Ukrainian officials say, blaming it on separatist rebels.
They said a barrage of Grad rockets had been fired by the rebels. Such weapons are classed as heavy artillery weapons, fired in batches from trucks.
Unconfirmed reports put the Ukrainian death toll as high as 30, with dozens more wounded, near Zelenopillya.
Elsewhere, the rebels shelled Ukrainian troops at Donetsk airport.
Zoryan Shkyryak, an adviser to Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, gave details of the Zelenopillya rocket attack: "So far, the information available speaks of up to 30 [dead]. The number of casualties may increase."
The rebels, he said, had used a Grad system and the destruction was "really heavy".
A motorised brigade from Lviv, western Ukraine, was targeted in the rocket attack, the Ukrainian news website Unian reports.
The rebels have regrouped in Donetsk as the Ukrainian military has retaken territory in the country's east. The rebels have not yet broken through to the airport..............http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28261737
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Mueren 30 soldados ucranianos en un ataque rebelde con misiles...
ReplyDelete"De momento, la información que podemos dar es que hay hasta 30 muertos, aunque puede que sean más", dijo Zorian Shiriak, consejero del ministro de Interior ucraniano, en una comparecencia ante la prensa en Kiev.
Shiriak señaló que se tomarán rápidas medidas para castigar a los responsables de lo que calificó de "acto terrorista sangriento".
"Serán eliminados o capturados y llevados ante la Justicia", afirmó.
El vocero del Ministerio de Defensa, Vladislav Seleznyov, dijo que el ataque fue lanzado contra una base en un poblado cerca de la frontera con Ucrania y confirmó que hubo muchas víctimas entre los soldados, aunque no dio una cifra precisa.
El portavoz precisó que el bombardeo ocurrió a la madrugada junto a la localidad de Zelenopolie, en Lugansk pero próxima a la vecina región de Donetsk, y que la base alcanzada está ubicada cerca de tres pasos fronterizos cuyo cierre había sido anunciado hoy por autoridades rusas, informó la agencia de noticias EFE.
Los sistemas móviles Grad (Granizo), de fabricación rusa, cuentan con hasta 40 bocas instaladas sobre un camión y con un alcance de hasta 40 kilómetros, según el tipo de misil y el modelo de la lanzadera...................http://www.telam.com.ar/notas/201407/70687-ucrania-ataque.html