The Council of Europe is against amnesty for participants in the war in Ukraine
Moscow - Kiev, September 15 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - Council of Europe Commissioner Nils Muižnieks, after trips to Kiev, Simferopol and Moscow, told Kommersant that he estimates the number of refugees from Donbass to be only “tens of thousands” and opposed a general amnesty for the results of the truce in Ukraine.
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“I met with the mayor of Donetsk,” Muiznieks said. “He told me that over the past few weeks, 50 thousand people have returned to the Donetsk region. But the situation there has not completely returned to normal, and instead of their own homes, people are often forced to return to ruins.”
According to the CE Commissioner, the number of refugees “is a colossal figure. We are talking about tens of thousands of people, and, as it seems to me, no one now has accurate data on this matter. The problem is that there is no single resource that would allow for general accounting.”
It is “difficult” for Muižnieks to estimate how long the truce will last. “Many provisions of the ceasefire agreement are still formulated rather vaguely,” he noted.
At the same time, the CE Commissioner believes, “exemption from responsibility of those involved in human rights violations not only in the Donbass, but throughout Ukraine, is unacceptable - regardless of whether we are talking about participants in the conflict from the Ukrainian side or from outside militias."
In Crimea, Muižnieks is most concerned about the situation of the Tatars. “I got the impression that many members of the Crimean Tatar minority are really scared,” he says. “They told me how armed people broke into businesses and private homes of Crimean Tatars, kicked down doors, broke windows.”
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