The Ukrainian police opened criminal proceedings for investigate the death of more than 12,000 peoplemost of them found in mass graves, announced the head of the National Police, Ihor Klymenko.
In an interview with the Interfax-Ukraine news agency, the police chief said that they are in possession of 1,200 bodies, also found in mass gravesthat have not yet been identified.
We receive “reports and open criminal proceedings [para investigar] the death of more than 12,000 people, many of them found in mass graves,” Klymenko said.
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Klymenko said that in addition to people killed on the street, a large number of civilians were found dead in their homes.
Regarding the mass graves, he explained that it is still too early to quantify the number of bodies found, since the security forces locate several bodies each week.
“In Bucha, 116 people were buried in one of these graves.; there were smaller burials of five to seven people each. Neighbors collected the bodies of the dead and buried them in parks,” he described.
According to the head of the Ukrainian police, in total, about 75% of the dead are men, about 2% are children and the rest are womenemphasizing that “they are civilians, they had nothing to do with the country’s military or police structures.”
Ihor Klymenko said that exhuming the bodies “is a long and laborious process, because many bodies are in an advanced state of putrefaction.”
“We selected the DNA of the relatives who contacted us (…) and then we compared the profiles of these relatives with the profiles of the dead, buried, shot, who could not be identified,” he said.
Source: Observadora
