GENEVA (Reuters) – Former Norwegian magistrate Erik Mose, who headed the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, was appointed on Wednesday to lead a United Nations fact-finding mission into possible war crimes in Ukraine.
He will be assisted by Jasminka Dzumhur, human rights mediator in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the Colombian academic Pablo de Greiff, the first UN special rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice and reparation.
These three experts will be responsible for “collecting, compiling and analyzing the evidence attesting to violations” of human rights and international humanitarian law resulting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine and identifying those responsible for these violations “so that they have to answer for their actions”, according to the UN.
The creation of a mission to investigate possible war crimes in Ukraine, demanded by Kyiv and its allies, including the European Union, Great Britain and the United States, was voted on on 4th March last by a majority of the 47 member states of the UN Human Rights Council.
Russia, which presents its offensive as a special operation aimed at demilitarizing and “denazifying” Ukraine, voted against the resolution.
(Report Stephanie Nebehay, French version Jean-Stéphane Brosse)
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