Report on crimes in the Donbas region was presented in the Polish Sejm
On Wednesday, a report about Russian crimes in Donbas in 2014 was presented in the Lower House of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland. The report was based on over 60 interviews of prisoners, conducted by Ukrainian and Polish volunteers. UKRINFORM reports that the document was presented by the Deputy Head of the Sejm Commission for Foreign Affairs and one of the initiators of its creation, Małgorzata Gosiewska.
"I hope that criminals will be punished as the war crimes have no statute of limitations,” Gosiewska said during the presentation. She noted that the report lacks the names of the persons against whom torture was used. However, their data was still submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.
Gosiewska read out a part of the testimony of the torture victims, emphasizing that this is happening in the 21st century and that Poland should know what is happening in its neighboring states.
She stressed that the report centered on crimes by Russians and by military personnel of the Russian army. "This is not the work of some unknown group but the Russian army, representatives of various Russian special services, which exploit Russian military equipment.”
As Gosiewska noted, Russian journalists are also responsible for crimes because people who were tortured were forced to give interviews to the Russian media. "I want this report to come to light not for cheap sensationalism but because they want to show what Putin's Russia is like today," she summed up.
Recently, the report was also presented in the European Parliament in Brussels and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in Kiev. Some presentations are also being planned in the national parliaments of EU countries. On April 22, 2016, Gosiewska personally gave the report to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. According to her, it aroused considerable interest among representatives of the court.
As previously reported in late April, the Hague Tribunal began to study documentation on war crimes in the Donbas region.