The Ukrainian government was unable to hold accountable those responsible for shootings in Kiev's central square during Euromaidan demonstrations, the US State Department said on Wednesday in its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2018
WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 13th March, 2019) The Ukrainian government was unable to hold accountable those responsible for shootings in Kiev's central square during Euromaidan demonstrations, the US State Department said on Wednesday in its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2018."The perpetrators of the 2014 Euromaidan shootings in Kyiv had not been held to account," the report said.
Authorities in Kiev are not taking "adequate steps to prosecute or punish most officials who committed abuses, resulting in a climate of impunity," the State Department added.
In February 2014, violent clashes between supporters of Ukraine's European integration and law enforcement broke out in central Kiev's Independence Square, or Maidan Nezalezhnosti, claiming the lives of some 100 people. The protests led to a change of government, forcing then-President Viktor Yanukovych to flee the country.
Last year, the Georgian snipers who participated in the February 2014 unrest said that they had received arms and orders to open fire on people from Ukrainian lawmaker Serhiy Pashynsky. They claimed Pashynsky and another lawmaker, Volodymyr Parasiuk, personally took part in the mass murders during the protests by firing from their own rifles.
