RCMP Cpl. Kate Walaszczyk honed her policing skills as a homicide investigator, painstakingly reconstructing crime scenes and gathering evidence.
She is turning that hard-earned know-how to the global stage, working with other countries to document war crimes and crimes against humanity in the unfolding conflict in Ukraine.
The force is seeking information about acts of violence in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022, and in Crimea or the Donbas region since 2014 to assist the probe, conducted under the auspices of the federal War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity program. She would not provide details about the number of people who have contacted the Mounties. "But I can say that we've received a fairly large volume of information."
"Can you imagine, you know, 100 different angles of the same thing? You cannot pretend that it did not happen." It is one thing to interview witnesses and document their experiences, he said. "But the harder part is to prove who actually did it, who was the perpetrator who committed that crime, or even harder still, who ordered those crimes? Who was the supervisor?
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