Russian war crimes did not start in February 2022; Russia has been committing war crimes in Crimea and the occupied parts of Donbas since 2014. Significant human rights issues included: disappearances; torture, punitive psychiatric incarceration; harsh prison conditions; violence, and systemic discrimination against Crimean Tatars and ethnic Ukrainians and more. Until Ukraine regains control over Crimea and other occupied parts of Ukraine horrible atrocities and human rights violations will not stop.
Moderator:
Nadia McConnell, co-founder and president of the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation
Panelists:
David J. Kramer, Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute, former Board Chairman of the Free Russia Foundation, former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
Paul A. Goble, Former Special Advisor to the Secretary of State; Former Senior Advisor to the Director, Voice of America
Kateryna Shynkaruk, Political Analyst & Scholar, International Politics, Ukraine, Eastern Europe. The Bush School of Government & Public Service - Washington, DC
Maria Tomak, Head of the Crimea Platform Department at the Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
