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| Ukraine crisis: UN sounds alarm on human rights in east | |
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| The UN has warned of an "alarming deterioration" in human rights in eastern Ukraine, where separatists are fighting security forces. | |
| It also found "serious problems" of harassment and persecution of ethnic Tatars in Crimea, the mainly ethnic Russian region Moscow annexed in March. | |
| The conclusions are contained in the UN's monthly report on the crisis. | |
| Deadly violence between separatists and pro-Ukrainian forces has left dozens dead in the east and south this month. | |
| "Those with influence on the armed groups responsible for much of the violence in eastern Ukraine [must] do their utmost to rein in these men who seem bent on tearing the country apart," UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said in Geneva, as the 37-page monitoring report was released. | |
| The UN's report reveals a growing lawlessness in eastern and southern Ukraine: | |
| UN monitors have also documented cases of targeted killings, torture and abduction, primarily carried out by anti-government forces in eastern Ukraine. | |
| Journalists and international observers have been threatened, some have been abducted or attacked. |