Crimes without punishment. Thirty years of war crimes by the Russian state

FROM OCTOBER 7 TO NOVEMBER 9

Crimes without punishment. Thirty years of war crimes by the Russian state

Boutcha and Irpin: these two Ukrainian towns have become symbols of the atrocities committed by the Russian armed forces. But long before these two massacres, the Russian army had already committed many others over the last few decades – and with complete impunity. Since 1990, human rights defenders have been working in the areas of military conflict in which the Russian army has been involved – Ossetia, Abkhazia, Transnistria, Chechnya, Tajikistan, Georgia and Ukraine – to document violations of human rights and humanitarian law standards.
The report produced by the Memorial Human Rights Centre entitled ‘Chain of Wars, Chain of Crimes, Chain of Impunity’ focuses on the crimes committed by the Russian army in Chechnya, Syria and now Ukraine. This report is at the heart of the Memorial Human Rights Centre’s ‘30 Years Ago’ project.
The systematic and flagrant human rights violations that Russia reproduces from one conflict to the next are documented not only by human rights defenders, but also by photographers. This exhibition features work by Vladimir Mashatin, Oleg Klimov and Dmitry Belyakov, who have documented the armed conflicts in Chechnya and Syria; Victoria Ivleva, who has been covering what is happening in Ukraine for over a decade; and a number of photographers who continue to work anonymously in Russia.

Organisation: Memorial Human Rights Centre
Supported by: Amnesty International France
Curator: Anna Shpakova

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