[Jan van den Berghe]

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https://www.amnesty.nl/encyclopedie/...-mensenrechten

Fijn dat u verwijst naar Amnesty International. Wel, laat het nu net deze organisatie zijn die heel kritisch was voor die zogezegde "referenda" die de uiting zouden moeten zijn van het "zelfbeschikkingsrecht" in de bezette gebieden.

“There is no legitimacy whatsoever in the results of these sham “referenda” announced by the Russian authorities. It is absurd that the Russian authorities would think these so-called votes, which took place at gunpoint in the presence of Russian soldiers and their proxies, are in any way credible. The whole exercise, which is illegal under international law, is nothing more than another deplorable act in Russia’s strategy of aggression against Ukraine.”

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...ccupied-areas/

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September 23, 2022
Russia/Ukraine: So-called referenda in the occupied territories are in blatant breach of international law
Reacting to news that “voting” has begun in the Russian-occupied areas of the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions in Ukraine on whether to join the Russian Federation, Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said:

“These so-called ‘referenda’ are a ruse for Russia to illegally annex occupied Ukrainian territory, which would be another escalation of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and further evidence of the Kremlin’s profound disregard for international law and the rights of people in the territories under its occupation. The Fourth Geneva Convention expressly prohibits annexation of occupied territory and other acts by the occupying power to deprive the occupied population of the protection of the Convention.”

“These so-called ‘referenda’ and any annexation by Russia that follows have no validity under international law, and, whatever Russia claims as a result, such actions will not change the legal status under international law of the territories Russia occupies.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...rnational-law/