[193] A future treaty between the Netherlands and Ukraine will make it possible for the Netherlands to prosecute in the cases of all 298 victims, regardless of their nationality. [65] Civilian attempts to stop the madness were often met with death. In her book on the subject, Cathryn Prince points out that both German and Soviet governments forbid their subjects to discuss this tragic event. A 6-year-old girl was reported to have died from dehydration under the ruins of her home in Mariupol on March 8. WebThe invasion of East Prussia by Soviets was termed, by one author, a Terrible Revenge, in his book by the same title: . Violations of the laws of war committed by the Russian Federation, The body of the 4-year-old girl Liza Dmitrieva (left) and the severed part of her mother's leg (right) after the Russian, International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, international sanctions have been imposed against Russian officials, United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-11/3, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, United Nations Commission on Human Rights, opened fire on a refugee convoy marked with white flags, 19992000 siege and bombardments of Grozny, 2006 deportation of Georgians from Russia, ethnic cleansing of Georgians in South Ossetia, Humanitarian situation during the war in Donbas, International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War, Ukraine's territory to be under occupation, United Nations General Assembly resolution A/73/L.47, War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Claims of genocide of Ukrainians in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian strikes on hospitals during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, indiscriminately fired at refugees trying to flee across a collapsed bridge, Odessa was bombed continuously for months, transfer of 2,000 children from orphanages and institutions to Russia, New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, Russian missile strike was fired directly at a nine-storey residential building in Dnipro, largest refugee crisis of the 21st century, The Russian missile attack on a shopping mall in Kremenchuk, Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War, Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, Lt Yevgeny Khudyakov and Lt Sergei Arakcheyev, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Musayev, Labazanova and Magomadov v. Russia, International Criminal Court investigation in Ukraine, "No progress in Chechnya without accountability", "Worse Than a War: "Disappearances" in Chechnyaa Crime Against Humanity", "NO HAPPINESS REMAINS" CIVILIAN KILLINGS, PILLAGE, AND RAPE IN ALKHAN-YURT, CHECHNYA, "Georgia: International Groups Should Send Missions", "Ukraine: Rebel Forces Detain, Torture Civilians - Dire Concern for Safety of Captives", "Ukraine: Mounting evidence of war crimes and Russian involvement", "Russia/Ukraine: Invasion of Ukraine is an act of aggression and human rights catastrophe", "Ukraine: Human Cost of Brutal Russian Invasion", "Syria: Russia's shameful failure to acknowledge civilian killings", "Russia/Syria: Extensive Recent Use of Cluster Munitions | Human Rights Watch", "Syria/Russia: Incendiary Weapons Burn in Aleppo, Idlib", "Russia/Syria: War Crimes in Month of Bombing Aleppo", "War crimes have been committed in Ukraine conflict, top UN human rights inquiry reveals", "War crimes, indiscriminate attacks on infrastructure, systematic and widespread torture show disregard for civilians, says UN Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine", "Russia Committed 'Clear' Violations Of Humanitarian Law And War Crimes, OSCE Says", "Russia committed human rights violation in Georgia war, ECHR rules", "Court Condemns Russia for Violating Human Rights After 2008 Georgia War", "European court: Russia must answer for abuses in 2008 Georgia war", "EU restrictive measures in response to the crisis in Ukraine", "The list of global sanctions on Russia for the war in Ukraine", "Russia withdraws from International Criminal Court treaty", "Russia's withdrawal from International Criminal Court statute is 'completely cynical', "War Crimes In Chechnya and the Response of the West", The situation of human rights in the Republic of Chechnya of the Russian Federation - Report of the Secretary-General, Yeltsin Orders Bombing Halt On Rebel City, 'These People Can Never Be Pacified': A Report From The Besieged City, Where Russian Bombs Haven't Dented Chechen Resolve, The situation of human rights in the Republic of Chechnya of the Russian Federation Report of the Secretary-General. 
[86], Amnesty International estimated that between 20,000 and 30,000 civilians have been killed in the First Chechen War alone, mostly by indiscriminate attacks by Russian forces on densely populated areas,[87] and that a further 25,000 civilians died in the Second Chechen War. [172], In February 2016, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported extensive use of cluster munitions by Syria and Russia, in violation of United Nations resolution 2139 of 22 February 2014, which demanded that all parties end "indiscriminate employment of weapons in populated areas". I found that ignorance rather odd in view of his constant hammering of the theme of Jewish suffering during the Second World War. [7], Human Rights Watch stated that pro-Russian insurgents "failed to take all feasible precautions to avoid deploying in civilian areas" and in one case "actually moved closer to populated areas as a response to government shelling". [33], The crimes included the use of prohibited cluster bombs in the 1995 Shali cluster bomb attack, which targeted a market, a gas station and a hospital,[34][35][36] and the April 1995 Samashki massacre, in which it is estimated that up to 300 civilians died during the attack. After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation by Giles MacDonogh, Here follows some evocative statements and exerpts and vignettes from the devastation in East Prussia, to help the reader understand what happened there: (After this list I will offer a series of evocative exerpts, statements, and vignettes from these books. The other is a novel by Ruta Sepetys, herself a daughter of East Prussian refugees, called Salt to the Sea. World War II was the single deadliest event in human history, with 60 to 85 million deaths. [58][59] The Grozny ballistic missile attack, in which ten hypersonic missiles fell without warning and targeted the city's only maternity hospital, post office, mosque, and a crowded market. ", "Guerrilla Warfare, Counterinsurgency and Terrorism in the North Caucasus: The Military Dimension of the Russian-Chechen Conflict", "Chechnya Toll Is Far Higher, 80,000 Dead, Lebed Asserts", Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, "Competing Powers: U.S.-RussianRelations, 2006-2016", "2008 Georgia Russia Conflict Fast Facts", "Russian patronage over Abkhazia and South Ossetia: implications for conflict resolution", "Human Rights in Areas Affected by the South Ossetia Conflict. [166], By March 30, the UN reported that 4 million refugees fled Ukraine, that 50 hospitals in the country were targeted, and that Russia used the banned cluster munition in at least 24 instances. [90] Combined with the military forces, historians estimate that up to a tenth of the entire Chechen population died in the first war,[91] 100,000 people out of a million. WebOn 22 Oct 1944, troops of the 2nd Battalion of the Soviet 25th Guards Tank Brigade moved near the village of Nemmersdorf on the frontier of East Prussia, Germany (now Mayakovskoye, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia), capturing the nearby Angrapa bridge. Why is this massive disaster so little known? [189], On 29 March 2005 Sergey Lapin was sentenced to 11 years for torture of Chechen student Zelimkhan Murdalov in police custody, who disappeared since. Later in time, East Prussia witnessed plunder under Napoleon, and the destructive French occupiers, East Prussia was cut her off from substantial and traditional channels of distribution with, In 1945, at the close of World War Two, most of the remaining population of East Prussia fled in, In January and February of 1945, the "evacuation" of surviving Germans began, including those who, As planned with the Allies, East Prussia was divied up between Russia and Poland. So, the suffering of East Prussians and ethnic Germans is still little known in the USA. Report of an eyewitness: Erika Morgenstern, who survived Knigsberg 1945 as a child (in German): This page was last edited on 2 April 2023, at 13:01. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. [134] During the Siege of Mariupol, the city was destroyed by shelling and cut off from electricity, food and water. [120] AI also said that a recording released by the Kyiv Post of a man, allegedly separatist leader Arseny Pavlov, claiming to have killed fifteen Ukrainian prisoners of war was a "chilling confession", and that it highlighted "the urgent need for an independent investigation into this and all other allegations of abuses". It was concluded when Russia took full control of Chechnya and installed a pro-Russian government. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. [198], On 29 August 2003, a Dutch court (Rechtbank's Gravenhage) found that the Samashki massacre of 250 Chechen civilians was a crime against humanity. The crime was perpetrated by the Soviet occupation regime on the [162][163] This disrupted the power and water supply to 10,700,000 Ukrainian homes at one point in winter. [82], International humanitarian workers are reported to have been killed by Russian soldiers during the war in Chechnya. 16 Mar. Amnesty International, 22 February 2023[156], Russian filtration camps were set-up to detain, interrogate and torture Ukrainians suspected to have connections with Ukrainian government.
[145], Thousands of civilians were killed by Russia's indiscriminate shelling and missiles strikes against civilian areas: in Borordianka,[147] Kramatorsk,[148] Vinnytsia,[149] Chasiv Yar,[150] Serhiivka,[151] and others. The Russian people thus have their own stories of atrocities but since I am writing from the perspective of my fathers family and ancestors who were East Prussians, I seek to gather stories and facts about these experiences. While Russia denied its involvement in the war in Donbas, numerous pieces of evidence pointed to its support of the pro-Russian separatists. After the suppression of the uprising of 1830, about 30,000 of its This is an apolitical forum for discussions on the Axis nations and related topics hosted by the Axis History Factbook in cooperation with Christian Ankerstjernes Panzerworld and Christoph Awender's WW2 day by day. [110] Human Rights Watch said that this was in clear violation of the common article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. 0000007250 00000 n by Tancred 14 Nov 2004, 03:27, Post [44][45] According to human rights activists, Russian troops systematically committed the following crimes in Chechnya: the destruction of cities and villages, not justified by military necessity; shelling and bombardment of unprotected settlements; summary extrajudicial executions and killings of civilians; torture, ill-treatment and infringement of human dignity; serious bodily harm intentionally inflicted on persons not directly participating in hostilities; deliberate strikes against the civilian population, civilian and medical vehicles; illegal detentions of the civilian population; enforced disappearances; looting and destruction of civilian and public property; extortion; taking hostages for ransom; corpse trade. WebIn particular Galicia and Bukovina, East Prussia and Russian-Poland were affected as well as the Baltic. [174] On 22 July 2019, the Ma'arrat al-Numan market bombing killed 43 civilians. [191], On 24 May 2018, after extensive comparative research, the Dutch investigation concluded that the Buk that shot down the 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 came from the Russian 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade in Kursk. [4], The use of cluster bombs by the Russians caused fatalities among civilians. [118], At a press conference in Kyiv on 15 December 2015, UN Assistant Secretary-General for human rights Ivan imonovi stated that the majority of human rights violations committed during the conflict were carried out by the separatists. [180], On 27 October 2021, the UN experts of the Human Rights Council warned that Russia's paramilitary Wagner Group "violently harassed and intimidated civilians, including peacekeepers, journalists, aid workers and minorities in the Central African Republic". [170] By 21 February 2023, a year into the invasion, the UN recorded 8,006 killed civilians, including 487 children. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have recorded Russian war crimes in Chechnya,[1][2][3] Georgia,[4][5] Ukraine[6][7][8][9] and Syria. [152] On 7 May 2022, the Bilohorivka school bombing killed dozens of people sheltering in the basement. by Ogorek 08 Nov 2004, 19:48, Post [217], On February 28, 2022, the ICC prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan announced that he will launch an investigation into alleged war crimes in Ukraine. [65] Russian military leadership dismissed the incident as "fairy tales", claiming that the bodies were planted and the slaughter fabricated in order to damage the reputation of Russian troops. [109] It also said that the insurgents had destroyed medical equipment, threatened medical staff, and occupied hospitals. [143] Following the withdrawal of Russian forces from the E-40 highway around the Kyiv area, BBC News discovered 13 dead bodies left lying on the road, only two wearing Ukrainian military uniforms. [20][21][22], When the International Criminal Court (ICC) started to investigate Russia's annexation of Crimea for possible violations of international law, Russia withdrew its membership on 16 November 2016. Numerous war crimes were committed, most of them were committed by the Russian armed forces. WebAuthor: Anna Rosmus Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press ISBN: 9781570035098 Format: PDF, ePub Release: 2004 Language: en View With the same commitment to exposing Nazi crimes that has made her books Against the Stream and Out of Passau so widely read, Anna Elisabeth Rosmus uncovers the wartime fate of foreign workers, their [25] Nonetheless, in its preliminary 2017 report, the ICC found that "the situation within the territory of Crimea and Sevastopol would amount to an international armed conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation" as well that it "factually amounts to an ongoing state of occupation". 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(pg 179) She also writes that The Soviet Union had its own motives for suppressing the storyto question the events surrounding the Gustloff and its sinking could have sparked questions of why those civilians felt a visceral need to flee the oncoming Red Army, an army that liberated people from Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. (pg 180) Then too, it has taken many years after the end of WWII for the public to begin to recognize the humanity of the German people. [77] Around 300 people were killed while trying to escape in October 1999 and subsequently buried in a mass grave. The war ended on 12 August with a ceasefire brokered by international diplomats. [25][26] On April 7, 2022, the United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-11/3 suspended Russia from the UN Human Rights Council membership due to war crimes in Ukraine. Yet this was their homeland they and their direct ancestors had lived in this area for at least 200 years, perhaps much longer. ( 1)", "Stadt ohne Mnner - Berlin - Tagesspiegel", 'They raped every German female from eight to 80', "Red Army troops raped even Russian women as they freed them from camps", "Remembering Rape: Divided Social Memory and the Red Army in Hungary 19441945", "Masacrul de la Fntna Alb, ngropat de KGB: peste 2000 de romni ucii de trupele sovietice", "Romnii bucovineni sub cizma strin", "Masacrul de la Fntna Alb. [169] On April 22, the UN recorded at least 2,343 killed civilians, of which 92.3% were attributable to the Russian armed forces. No, it was not the sinking of the Titanic, which has been broadcast all over the media and in stories and movies, wherein 1500 lives were lost. 0000000649 00000 n [125], A damaged block of flats in Donetsk, 14 July 2014, A destroyed house in the Donbas, July 2014, A damaged tower block in Lysychansk, 28 July 2014, Damaged building in Snizhne, 6 August 2014, A burning block of flats in Shakhtarsk, 3 August 2014, A damaged building in Donetsk, 7 August 2014, Victims of War in Ukraine - Kyiv Hospital - Exhibition by Still Miracle Photography 02, On February 24, 2022, Russian forces invaded and attacked Ukraine from the north, south and east, which was interpreted as a form of extreme Russian irredentism. . A family of four was killed by a mortar strike. Amnesty International accused Russia of "fuelling separatist crimes" and it called upon "all parties, including Russia, to stop their violations of the laws of war". I count among my own immediate family at least one such who died on the run as they called it. That one, quite tragically, appears to have been sunk by British forces. [136][137], During the Battle of Kharkiv, the city was destroyed by Russian shelling, including a boarding school for blind people. Russian officials refused to recognize Chechnya's declaration of independence, sparking tensions.
[79] The bombing of Grozny included banned Buratino thermobaric and fuel-air bombs, igniting the air of civilians hiding in basements. WebDuring the few weeks in August of 1914 the Czars armies had occupied territory in East Prussia, Russian soldiers looted, raped, bayoneted, mutilated, and shot 1,600 German civilians, deported 10,000 more, and destroyed 34,000 of their homes, crimes that only confirmed the long-held German public perception of Russians as mindless barbarians. In 2003, the United Nations called Grozny the most destroyed city on Earth. [202], In 2022, National parliaments, including those of Poland, Ukraine, Canada, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Republic of Ireland, declared that a genocide was taking place in Ukraine. [85] Out of 428 villages in Chechnya, 380 were bombed in the conflicts, leaving a 70% destruction of households behind. Don't do it again. Special Mission to Georgia and Russian Federation", "Resolution 1647 (2009) - Implementation of Resolution 1633 (2008) on the consequences of the war between Georgia and Russia", "Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians", "Ukraine: Russia Must Recognize Ukraine Rebels' Human Rights Abuses", "Marking Ukrainian Independence Day with a Laws-of-War Violation", "In Eastern Ukraine, Rebel Mockery Amid Independence Celebration", "Security Service to Create "Death Map" of Mass Graves and Terrorist Concentration Camps", "Eastern Ukraine conflict: Summary killings, misrecorded and misreported", "Ukraine: Widespread Use of Cluster Munitions", "Rebels in Ukraine 'post video of people's court sentencing man to death', "UN accuses Ukraine forces, pro-Russia rebels of 'torture', "New evidence of summary killings of Ukrainian soldiers must spark urgent investigations", "Russian fighter's confession of killing prisoners might become evidence of war crimes (AUDIO)", "Speakers Urge Peaceful Settlement to Conflict in Ukraine, Underline Support for Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity of Crimea, Donbas Region", "General Assembly Adopts Resolution Urging Russian Federation to Withdraw Its Armed Forces from Crimea, Expressing Grave Concern about Rising Military Presence", "Ukraine: Temperatures plunge amid rising humanitarian needs", "The Peace Movement and the Ukraine War: Where to Now? These attacks on critical civilian infrastructure were deemed as illegal and as war crimes. Here's How We Traced the Culprit", "Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic", "U.N. Panel Links Russia to Potential War Crime in Syria", "Russia has killed at least 18,000 people since it intervened militarily in Syria three years ago, says monitoring group", "CAR: Russian Wagner Group harassing and intimidating civilians UN experts", "UN urges CAR to cut ties with Russia's Wagner mercenaries over rights abuses", "Survivors Say Russian Mercenaries Slaughtered 70 Civilians in Gold Mine Massacre", "Central African Republic: Abuses by Russia-Linked Forces", "Russian mercenaries and Mali army accused of killing 300 civilians", "Mali: Massacre by Army, Foreign Soldiers", "Russian mercenaries linked to civilian massacres in Mali", "Russian officer is finally jailed for murder of Chechen", "Update in criminal investigation MH17 disaster", "Statement by the minister of Foreign Affairs on MH17, 5 July 2017", "JIT-landen kiezen Nederland voor vervolging neerhalen MH17", "Three Russians and one Ukrainian to face MH17 murder charges", "Investigators officially accuse 4 pro-Russian military officers of missile attack that shot down MH17", "Investigators in downing of jet over Ukraine charge 4 suspects with ties to Russian intelligence, pro-Moscow militia", "MH17: Three guilty as court finds Russia-controlled group downed airliner", "Ukraine War Crimes Arrest a Step Toward Justice", "Ukraine invasion: Could Putin stand trial for war crimes and what punishment could he face? ", "Killings in Ukraine amount to genocide, Holocaust expert says", "Opinion: What's happening in Ukraine is genocide. Andrew Durana: first family member to arrive in the New World, Links to Mikuteit Family Tree on Genealogy sites, Surnames in the Mikuteit-Schapals-Durana-Galvanek family tree, From East Prussia and Czechoslovakia to The United States. 0000000016 00000 n Out of a population of 1.8 million, only 500,000 people remained in Kharkiv by March 7. WalterS -- We don't permit racial slurs here, even when accompanied by the prefix "detestable term."
As said by Marion Donhoff, of the noble Donhoff family, herself an East Prussian who fled by horseback in 1944 from her familys large estate at Friedrichstein near Konigsberg How hard it is, she said, For someone who hasnt lived under a totalitarian regime to understand the difficulty of any kind of opposition. Even so, the German resistance to Hitler was essentially driven and directed by the Prussian nobility and the Prussian corps of officers (pg 17 A Terrible Revenge). Transported in [73][74] The crimes included widespread looting and arson. While thousands of investigations were undertaken, only one person was convicted for crimes against the Chechens in the Chechen warsYuri Budanov, convicted by a Russian court of kidnapping and murder of Elza Kungaeva and sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2003[188]which led Amnesty International to conclude that there is "no accountability" and that a Russian "lack of prosecution has resulted in a climate of impunity". [103] Amnesty International accused Russia of deliberately bombarding and attacking civilian areas and infrastructure, which is a war crime. The invasion of East Prussia by Soviets was termed, by one author, a Terrible Revenge, in his book by the same title: . [71] Upon entering the village, Russian soldiers shot their victims in cold blood, with automatic fire at close range. Let us be clear: the hands of Vladimir Putin and his armed forces are stained with blood. [73][75][74] The massacre went unpunished and unacknowledged by the Russian authorities. by michael mills 15 Nov 2004, 14:51, Post trailer We must remember that, for the most part, WWI was a dynastic struggle, not a "war of annihilation" that WWII in the east became. A German manifesto blamed the Russian hordes for barbarous methods of warfare during the invasion of East Prussia in August and early September 1914, when about 100 civilians were killed. [167] Russia's attack against Ukraine forced 14 million people to flee their homes, of which 7.8 million fled the country,[168] sparking the largest refugee crisis of the 21st century. The pigs: they saved themselves first and left us here, spat one of the villagers. [18], By 2009, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued 115 verdicts (including the virdict in the Baysayeva v. Russia case) finding the Russian government guilty of enforced disappearances, murder, torture, and for failing to properly investigate these crimes in Chechnya. by David Thompson 15 Nov 2004, 21:25, Return to Holocaust & 20th Century War Crimes. The report concluded that using such heavy weapons on densely populated civilian areas may amount to a war crime. [11] HRW also noted that while neither Russia nor Syria are parties to the Cluster Munitions Convention, the use of such munitions contradicts statements issued by the Syrian government that they would refrain from using them. A couple earlier, less known books in English were published in the 1970s The Cruelest Night: The Untold Story of one onf the Greatest Maritime Tragedies of World War II, by Christopher Dobson et a. A Russian fixed-wing aircraft using unguided weapons, including blast weapons, were used against this location. The UN Human Rights Council met in special session on Thursday in Geneva, prompted by increasing concern over atrocities committed against (LogOut/ On 16 March 2022, a ruling was reached, and the ICJ ordered Russia to "immediately suspend the military operations" in Ukraine. [41] This has led to Western and Chechen sources describing the Russian strategy as deliberate terror bombing. Then there was the sinking of the luxury liner the Cap Arcona, wherein another 7000 perished, most of whom were former inmates of the concentration camp Neuengamme near Hamburg. Mentally disabled Germans fit into this category, as did homosexuals, nd many ethnic Germans died in concentration camps simply because they were disabled individuals or homosexuals. It was an army of rapists, she said. [100], Additionally, the Russian military did nothing to prevent the ethnic cleansing of Georgians in South Ossetia in the area under its control. These war crimes have included murder, torture, terrorism, deportation or forced transfer, abduction, rape, looting, unlawful confinement, unlawful airstrikes or attacks against civilian objects, and wanton destruction. WebThe horror of the Russian occupation of their homes by troops deliberately brought in from the depths of eastern Russia where they had no concept of modern western civilisation This revenge refers to the fact that the Soviet people were the [30][31], During the two wars, the Chechens were dehumanized and Russian propaganda depicted them as "blacks", "bandits", "terrorists", "cockroaches" and "bedbugs". 0000002048 00000 n And hence the very wise words which we would all do well to heed, spoken by American Abolitionist Wendell Phillips. Several attempts to counterattack were launched, some supported by aircraft.
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