Strasbourg, 29 October 2015 – The report of the International Advisory Panel on its review of the investigations into the violent incidents in Odesa in May 2014 will be presented at press conferences in Kyiv on Wednesday, 4 November 2015, and in Odesa on Thursday, 5 November 2015.
Tag Archives: Odessa tragedy
| Ukrainian police against four old French people
On May 2nd 2014, a peaceful rally took place on Kulikovo field in Odessa, during which activists who had opposed the recent coup in Kiev were gathering signatures demanding a referendum for a federal organization of the Ukraine. This is when they were attacked by right-wing radicals and pro-Maidan neo-fascists of the Pravy-sektor. Many took refuge in the House of Trade Unions, which the assailants set on fire, and were burned alive. Those who jumped out of windows were beaten to death on the ground. According to official reports, at least 48 of the activists died—a number that doubles when including those who have disappeared—and hundreds were injured.
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| MADNESS: fascists attacked veterans and women in Odessa
April 10 the residents of Odessa celebrated the anniversary of city’s liberation from the occupiers during Great Patriotic war.
The day started from a traditional visit of Odessa citizens on the Alley of Glory at the monument to the unknown sailor. The Alley was attended by several thousand people.
Kulikovo field activists were particularly active. During the celebrations, they called everyone to go to Kulikovo field to the House of Trade Unions and to honor the memory of Odessa citizens who died May 2, 2014 at the hands of Ukrainian fascists. This is a symbolic gesture that underlines the continuity in the fight against fascism.
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| Yesterday Ukrainian fascists attacked a peaceful memorial meeting in Odessa
Activists and relatives of Odessa citizens burned in the House of Trade Unions on May 2, 2014 regularly hold memorial meetings every month at Kulikovo field, a square near Trade union building. This is the only legal place of public protest in all Ukraine now. But these memorial actions are attacked very often from those who are responsible for unprecedented crime made on May 2014. Yesterday Ukrainian fascists were especially active. Their victims wrote a public appeal to police and described were what is happened. Here is its translation.
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| UKRAINE: MAIDAN, ODESSA: TWO YEARS LATER (Public conference, Geneva, 21 March 2016) A CALL FOR AN INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION
UKRAINE: MAIDAN, ODESSA: TWO YEARS LATER
Public conference, Geneva, 21 March 2016
A CALL FOR AN INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION
PURPOSE OF THE CONFERENCE
On 21 March 2016, a Side Event in the context of the session of the Council of Human Rights was convened in the Palais des Nations, the headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva. The conference’s purpose was to provide an independent forum to some of the families of the victims of the violence in Maidan and Odessa, but also elsewhere in Ukraine to share their experience as direct witnesses of these events and their efforts to seek justice. Thus far, by all accounts, none of the investigations undertaken in the past two years have yielded any tangible result. The conference also invited an independent observer and analyst of the situation in Ukraine in the past two years, to put these developments in context.
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International Advisory Panel to present its review of the Odessa violence investigations on Wednesday in Kyiv, on Thursday in Odessa
30 October 2015
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