{"id":5171,"date":"2015-02-02T21:09:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T02:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5171"},"modified":"2015-02-02T21:09:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T02:09:59","slug":"ukrainian-militias-are-beheading-hostages-just-like-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5171","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Militias Are Beheading Hostages \u2026 Just Like ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/02\/ukrainian-militias-beheading-hostages-just-like-isis.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ukrainian Militias Are Beheading Hostages \u2026 Just Like ISIS<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>In researching war crimes in Ukraine, I came across this disturbing\u00a0<a title=\"report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/evidence-war-crimes-committed-ukrainian-nationalist-volunteers-grows-269604\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>\u00a0from Newsweek:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"\" dir=\"ltr\">Groups of right-wing Ukrainian nationalists are committing war crimes in the rebel-held territories of Eastern Ukraine, according to a report from Amnesty International, as<strong>evidence emerged in local media of the volunteer militias beheading their victims<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" dir=\"ltr\">Armed volunteers who refer to themselves as the Aidar battalion \u201chave been involved in widespread abuses, including abductions, unlawful detention, ill-treatment, theft, extortion, and possible executions\u201d, Amnesty said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The organisation has also published a report detailing similar alleged atrocities committed by pro-Russian militants, highlighting the brutality of the conflict which has claimed over 3,000 lives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian Militias Are Beheading Hostages \u2026 Just Like ISIS In researching war crimes in Ukraine, I came across this disturbing\u00a0report\u00a0from Newsweek: Groups of right-wing Ukrainian nationalists are committing war crimes in the rebel-held territories of Eastern Ukraine, according to a report from Amnesty International, asevidence emerged in local media of the volunteer militias beheading their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1963,1171,446,3135,821],"class_list":["post-5171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-amnesty-international","tag-beheading","tag-isis","tag-pro-russian-militia","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5172,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171\/revisions\/5172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}