#HumanitarianCrisis #PoliceState
Hong Kong Police Point Guns at Civilians at Close Range in Shopping Mall and on the Street
A riot police aimed his gun at a university student reporter at close range.
On the same day, at 17:50 in MOKO Mall in Mongkok, over a hundred riot police stormed in the shopping mall, intercepted shoppers and pointed rubber bullet rifles and pepper ball projectiles horizontally at civilians.
Source: Heng Sang University SU Editorial Board; Apple Daily #May10 #May11
#Weapons #HongKongPolice #WarCrime
Hong Kong Police Point Guns at Civilians at Close Range in Shopping Mall and on the Street
A riot police aimed his gun at a university student reporter at close range.
On the same day, at 17:50 in MOKO Mall in Mongkok, over a hundred riot police stormed in the shopping mall, intercepted shoppers and pointed rubber bullet rifles and pepper ball projectiles horizontally at civilians.
Source: Heng Sang University SU Editorial Board; Apple Daily #May10 #May11
#Weapons #HongKongPolice #WarCrime
#StandwithUkraine #StopWar #WarCrime
Kyiv region police say American journalist Brent Renaud killed by Russian forces in Irpin
//Award-winning American journalist #BrentRenaud was killed by Russian forces in #Irpin, #Ukraine, according to Kyiv region police in social media posts on Sunday.
Kyiv police said another American journalist was wounded by Russian troops.//
//The northern Ukrainian city of Irpin, just outside Kyiv, has been the site of substantial Russian shelling in recent days and has seen extensive destruction.//
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https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-13-22/h_0de4eb56201a461c14110f737041ad5d
Kyiv region police say American journalist Brent Renaud killed by Russian forces in Irpin
//Award-winning American journalist #BrentRenaud was killed by Russian forces in #Irpin, #Ukraine, according to Kyiv region police in social media posts on Sunday.
Kyiv police said another American journalist was wounded by Russian troops.//
//The northern Ukrainian city of Irpin, just outside Kyiv, has been the site of substantial Russian shelling in recent days and has seen extensive destruction.//
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https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-13-22/h_0de4eb56201a461c14110f737041ad5d
#Russia Allegedly Move Thousands of #Ukrainians to Russia Against their Will
//An official in Mariupol on Saturday, March 19, 2022 accused Russian forces of having taken thousands of Ukrainians against their will across the border into Russia who he feared could be compelled into forced labor.
Russian forces have taken “between 4,000 and 4,500 #Mariupol residents forcibly across the border to Taganrog,” Pyotr Andryuschenko, an assistant to the city’s mayor, said, referring to a city in southwestern Russia. Given chaos in the city — ongoing fighting, the lack of cellphone and internet service — his claim could not be immediately independently verified, though it was supported by testimony from others who recently fled the city.//
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/03/19/world/ukraine-russia-war/a-mariupol-official-accuses-russia-of-forcibly-taking-ukrainians-across-the-border
Source: New York Times #Mar19
#HumanitarianCrisis #WarCrime #RussianInvasion
//An official in Mariupol on Saturday, March 19, 2022 accused Russian forces of having taken thousands of Ukrainians against their will across the border into Russia who he feared could be compelled into forced labor.
Russian forces have taken “between 4,000 and 4,500 #Mariupol residents forcibly across the border to Taganrog,” Pyotr Andryuschenko, an assistant to the city’s mayor, said, referring to a city in southwestern Russia. Given chaos in the city — ongoing fighting, the lack of cellphone and internet service — his claim could not be immediately independently verified, though it was supported by testimony from others who recently fled the city.//
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/03/19/world/ukraine-russia-war/a-mariupol-official-accuses-russia-of-forcibly-taking-ukrainians-across-the-border
Source: New York Times #Mar19
#HumanitarianCrisis #WarCrime #RussianInvasion
In #Ukraine, empty strollers are a symbol of #children killed in war
//As Ukraine mourns its dead, scores of empty strollers were lined up in the cobbled central square of the city of #Lviv on Friday, March 18, 2022 to commemorate the children killed in the country since Russia's invasion.//
[Editor's notes: As of March 20, 2022, it was reported that at least children has been killed during Russian invasion of Ukraine.]
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https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-empty-strollers-are-symbol-children-killed-war-2022-03-18/
Source: Reuters #Mar18
#WarCrime #HumanitarianCrisis #RussianInvasion
//As Ukraine mourns its dead, scores of empty strollers were lined up in the cobbled central square of the city of #Lviv on Friday, March 18, 2022 to commemorate the children killed in the country since Russia's invasion.//
[Editor's notes: As of March 20, 2022, it was reported that at least children has been killed during Russian invasion of Ukraine.]
Read the full article:
https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-empty-strollers-are-symbol-children-killed-war-2022-03-18/
Source: Reuters #Mar18
#WarCrime #HumanitarianCrisis #RussianInvasion
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Can China be trusted? As the Russia-Ukraine war shows, #Beijing often says one thing and does another
//The war in Ukraine helps to explain this paradox. Less than two months before Russia’s invasion, Chinese President #XiJinping told Ukraine President #VolodymyrZelensky that he attached “high importance to developing the Chinese-Ukrainian strategic partnership.” But only weeks later, Xi and his Russian counterpart, #VladimirPutin, declared that their countries’ budding alliance had “no limits.”
...There is debate regarding the extent to which Xi and other Chinese officials had advance knowledge of the invasion. If they did, that makes them complicit in aggressive war and ongoing Russian war crimes in Ukraine. It would also mean that claims of ignorance by Chinese officials are not to be trusted.
And if they didn’t have knowledge of the invasion, the Russians didn’t trust them enough to give forewarning. Either way, there’s distrust of China.
...According to reports, Russia has requested that China provide it with weapons to bolster the assault on Ukraine. It is unclear whether China will fulfil that request. Chinese writing on bomb fragments in destroyed Ukrainian hospitals and schools – favourite targetsof the Russians – would not be good for China’s reputation.//
Read the full article
https://hongkongfp.com/2022/03/23/can-china-be-trusted-as-the-russia-ukraine-war-shows-beijing-often-says-one-thing-and-does-another/
Source: Hong Kong Free Press #Mar23
#RussianInvasion #WarCrime #HumanitarianCrisis
Can China be trusted? As the Russia-Ukraine war shows, #Beijing often says one thing and does another
//The war in Ukraine helps to explain this paradox. Less than two months before Russia’s invasion, Chinese President #XiJinping told Ukraine President #VolodymyrZelensky that he attached “high importance to developing the Chinese-Ukrainian strategic partnership.” But only weeks later, Xi and his Russian counterpart, #VladimirPutin, declared that their countries’ budding alliance had “no limits.”
...There is debate regarding the extent to which Xi and other Chinese officials had advance knowledge of the invasion. If they did, that makes them complicit in aggressive war and ongoing Russian war crimes in Ukraine. It would also mean that claims of ignorance by Chinese officials are not to be trusted.
And if they didn’t have knowledge of the invasion, the Russians didn’t trust them enough to give forewarning. Either way, there’s distrust of China.
...According to reports, Russia has requested that China provide it with weapons to bolster the assault on Ukraine. It is unclear whether China will fulfil that request. Chinese writing on bomb fragments in destroyed Ukrainian hospitals and schools – favourite targetsof the Russians – would not be good for China’s reputation.//
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https://hongkongfp.com/2022/03/23/can-china-be-trusted-as-the-russia-ukraine-war-shows-beijing-often-says-one-thing-and-does-another/
Source: Hong Kong Free Press #Mar23
#RussianInvasion #WarCrime #HumanitarianCrisis
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Can China be trusted? As the Russia-Ukraine war shows, Beijing often says one thing and does another
China’s rise over the last several decades, characterised by its expanding economic and military power, has been miraculous. But there is a paradox associated with that rise: as its power has incre…