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Switzerland: 'Cluster munition launches came from Ukrainian military territory' - HRW

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SOT. Mark Hiznay, Human Rights Watch (in English): "So we have eyewitnesses to rocket launches in the area, from territory controlled by the Ukrainian military on all three days of the cluster munition attacks that we documented in central Donetsk."

SOT Mark Hiznay, Human Rights Watch (in English): "It didn't take us very much to find these misfired weapons, they had been abandoned and the civilians are finding them. So even if you approach what happens in this forum from the point of view of military utility as opposed to humanitarian imperative, this goes towards military utility, the unreliability of the weapons being used."

SOT. Bonnie Docherty, Human Rights Watch (in English): "We have a range of evidence about the use of incendiary weapons in Ukraine. First we talked to witnesses who saw firework-like weapons dropped. We've seen evidence of burned homes but most importantly we've seen evidence of the weapons themselves. We've found all the key pieces of the incendiary weapons launched by grad rockets in two towns: in Ilovaisk and in Lugansk, and we also found evidence of the same pieces in nearby misfired rockets and we have firm evidence, firm physical evidence, that these weapons were indeed incendiary weapons."

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Human Rights Watch (HRW) presented their findings on the use of incendiary and cluster munitions in Ukraine during a press conference in Geneva, Wednesday. HRW's Mark Hiznay said that organisation had "eyewitness" evidence of "rocket launches in the area, from territory controlled by the Ukrainian military on all three days of the cluster munition attacks that we documented in central Donetsk."

Human Rights Watch officer Professor Bonnie Docherty said that the organisation has "firm physical evidence" of the use of incendiary weapons in Ilovaisk and in Lugansk.

En français

Mark Hiznay de Human Rights Watch, a déclaré que l'organisation avait preuve « témoin oculaire » de « lancement de roquettes dans la région, du territoire contrôlé par les militaires ukrainiens tous les trois jours des attaques avec 'cluster' munition qui nous avions documenté au Donetsk central. »

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 "L'organisation a "la preuve physique  irréfutable" de l'utilisation d'armes incendiaires dans  le Ilovaisk et dans le Lugansk."