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OTTAWA — Atrocities emerging in Ukraine, following the withdrawal of Russian troops from around the capital Kyiv, have prompted calls for an urgent inquiry by a Canadian parliamentary committee on genocide.
Liberal MP Ali Ehsassi believes the discovery of mass graves and corpses of civilians in areas Russia has withdrawn from must be urgently investigated in Canada's Parliament to establish whether Putin's troops committed genocide. At a virtual news conference on Friday, Ukrainian human rights experts and a Ukrainian MP presented graphic photographs of people in civilian clothes killed in Bucha, Irpin, Hostomel and other areas which were once occupied by Russian armed forces.
Ukrainian MP Oleksandra Ustinova said the intention of the Russians was to"erase us," adding that children had also been"stolen from Ukraine and sent to Russia."Oleksandr Pavlichenko, executive director of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, claimed that since the beginning of the invasion Russia has targeted civilians.
"I have witnesses who visited. They … explained that all the Ukrainians from this village who were speaking Ukrainian, they were killed," he said.
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