Amnesty International is sounding the alarm: violence against LGBT people and ethnic minorities is growing in Ukraine
The international human rights organization Amnesty International has recorded cases of attacks on LGBT people, women, national minorities, including Roma, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This is reported on the organization's website.
Amnesty International called on the Ukrainian authorities to condemn and bring to justice those responsible for the attacks by radical neo-Nazi groups.
“Over the past 12 months, Amnesty International has documented at least 30 such attacks by members of radical groups. In all of these cases, except one, the attackers remained unpunished for their actions,” the organization said.
Amnesty International said victims of violence and threats of violence, including women, LGBT rights activists, left-wing politicians, Roma families and other individuals and groups targeted by radical groups, remain vulnerable to further attacks, intimidation and aggression.
“The Ukrainian authorities seem to have chosen as a strategy the virtual absence of any proper response to attacks against civil society. In most cases, members of radical groups plan and carry out attacks openly and often brag about the violence they commit on social media and offline. In many cases, they publicize their plans for a particular event in advance, in private and public online forums and other means,” the report said.
In particular, the organization cited a case where the police refused to intervene in situations where LGBT events were blocked by radical people.
“Some of the participants who arrived later and remained in the corridor without the opportunity to get into the room witnessed friendly communication between the leader and the leader of the group of attackers. They also heard police officers using homophobic language,” the report said.
Amnesty International called on the Ukrainian authorities to respond to the problem with a clear policy of zero tolerance for such violence and to take immediate action to bring perpetrators to justice and protect victims.
As reported, there have recently been several cases of destruction of Roma camps in Ukraine. So, on May 9, in the Lviv region, near the village of Rudnoye, the Nazis burned a gypsy camp.
Earlier it was reported that members of the nationalist organization C14 destroyed and burned a Roma camp on Lysa Gora in Kyiv. Then the head of the capital’s police, Andrei Krischenko, cynically assured that it was not the Roma camp that was burned on Bald Mountain, but the garbage they left behind.
Subsequently, it was reported that the Kiev police opened two criminal proceedings into the pogrom of the Roma camp on Lysaya Gora.
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