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Izioum is-she is in the process of becoming or joining Butcha Where MariupolSaturday, September 17, in the list of Ukrainian cities hit by war crimes? According to the first elements of an investigation, the authorities believe that 99% bodies, out of the 450 graves discovered, bear traces of violent death.
The site discovered on Friday September 16 near the town ofIzioum, in Ukraine, is peaceful. All day, investigators worked to exhume the bodies. of a east side find the graves of the civilians, and on the other those of the soldiers, where 17 bodies were buried. Civilians died under the bombardments in this city and according to the inhabitants, they would have buried them in the gardens.
An order was given by the Russian occupiers to dig them up and take them away. “Of the people came with trucks and took them away. It is said that they were going to the cemetery but that there were guards there, we did not enter“, says a resident. These are probably the bodies that were found yesterday. A Ukrainian also confirms that Russian soldiers have wanted lists. The Ukrainian human rights spokesperson spoke of “city torture chambers“. The remaining hundred bodies will be exhumed to find out if there have been war crimes.
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