Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova: the occupiers in Mariupol are carrying out mass sweeps of living and dead residents
According to locals, racist troops are exhuming the bodies of residents who were previously buried in the yards of residential buildings.
At the same time, the occupiers forbid the burial of people killed by them. In each yard there was an overseer who did not allow Mariupol residents to pick up and bury their dead relatives or acquaintances.
They do not know where the bodies of the dead are taken, but given the presence of 13 mobile crematoria in Mariupol, it is possible that the rashists are trying to destroy the traces of their crimes by burning the corpses of murdered and tortured Mariupol residents.
To move through the occupied part of the city, the invaders introduced a checkpoint system “to ensure security and control over the issuance of humanitarian aid.”
Thus, russian terrorists are conducting a census of the surviving population to clean up the “unreliable” by comparing the databases received from collaborators and traitors on public utilities, state employees, law enforcement and compiled lists of activists.
The actions of russian war criminals copy the measures taken by the Nazis to clear the occupied territories during the Second World War. This is another confirmation of the genocide of the Ukrainian people in Mariupol in accordance with the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and Article 6 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
