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To surrender, rather than take them into custody. if true, this would be a violation of core principles of the laws of war. the prohibition against the summary execution of civilians and of combatants by virtue of surrender, injury, or other forms of inkapsation. these images and reports suggest atrocities are not the result of rogue units or individuals. they rather reveal a deeply disturbing pattern of systemic abuse across all areas where russias forces are engaged. >> simple message to russi...

Difficult to verify. but we know that many tens of thousands have been deliberately targeted by russia. mayor of mariupol told us just in that city, 20,000 people have been killed. the u.n. is documented the unlawful killing including by summary execution of some-50 civilians so far in the town of bucha. i am sure you have seen some of the images from there. in the early weeks of the war, we met yana and her three children, in an evacuation center here in lviv. they had just fled bucha. they had...

Century. mass killing and mass graves. thats where we are. the mayor of mariupol calls all of this evidence of war crimes. i spoke to him early this morning, and he told me more than 20,000 people have died in his city. 20,000. and u.n. human rights officers just announced they have documented the unlawful killing of approximately 50 people in bucha, a suburb of kyiv, including some by summary execution. meantime, president biden says the war is entering a critical window. he has announced an ...

Deaths since the beginning of the russian invasion, including, it says, the unlawful killing including by summary execution of some 50 civilians in the town of bucha. in the early weeks of this war, we met a family from bucha, yana at an evacuation center in lviv. you can see them there. at the time, we knew bucha was a scene of violence but not the scene of alleged war crimes as we know now. we kept in touch with them and we managed to catch up with them after they made their way safely to spai...

Troops about to prosecute the fight in eastern ukraine, whatever you heard from your fellow troops and commanders about what happened in bucha, you may do the same in eastern ukraine and you will be rewarded. it is chilling. we already knew that they were going to be doing some sort of what they call filtration of the men in the towns that they take over to see if any of them were fighters, but this is a green light to summary execution, torture, and indiscriminate shelling and bombing of areas ...

In the stories coming out of bouka is taking an emotional toll on the ukrainian people who for forty two days have been united in steeles in their resolve to withstand the occupying forces as they technically call them here. but the fact that this is not ukrainian forces who died on the battlefield but women and children that charred bodies we showed with one small enough to be a child is just exactly the reason why you have members of parliament one on twitter that went to see the scene in booc...

The circumstances of -- >> the biden administration. >> -- each and every -- mm-hm? >> keep going. >> i just -- i think its important to underscore that, you know, each one of those bodies has its own story. some people might have been killed through summary execution, like the young men whose execution we documented. some people might have gotten caught in cross fire. remember there were lots of military hostilities in bucha. some people might have been killed by russian forces just shooting th...

Horrific violence against humans. and its really important right now to secure evidence. we have to secure bucha, for example, the bodies that are strewn all over the place there. and then we have to consider them like a crime scene. evidence needs to be preserved so that experts, forensic experts, ballistic experts can -- that have training in war crime investigation and know how to follow and have experience following protocols for evidence preservation so that they can do their work, preserve...

Appropriate way and you cant kill civilians. you cant kill soldiers who have surrendered. >> so, ambassador, when we see bucha. and again, this is weeks after it happened. there are still bodies on the ground. they killed dogs, men, women, and children are still being found, either in mass graves or in basements. mutilated, raped. the list is horrendously long. when you see this, ambassador, from a distance, what do you see? >> when i look at the images that are emerging, it is very apparent to ...

Earth. here, is a pattern of war crimes as a tool of naked aggression. and were seeing two kinds of patterns of activity. indiscriminate shelling of civilian targets that are marked as civilian. and secondly, brutal, face-to-face torture and summary execution and dismemberment as a strategy, which is incredibly shocking. i think what were seeing with bucha and mariupol, are two incidents that will have the flavor of sarajevo. president zelenskyy is not explicit about what he wants to do these. h...