Apparent war crimes reported in Ukraine

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🗓️ 4 April 2022

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Russian forces have retreated from the area around the capital Kyiv, leaving Ukrainian forces and civilians to take stock of the devastation. In Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, Ukrainian troops and international journalists have reported finding brutalized bodies and evidence of mass graves, prompting fresh international outrage about possible war crimes. Plus, removing barriers to employment for people with criminal records. Guests: Rachel Denber, deputy director of the Europe and Central Asia division at Human Rights Watch and Axios’ Emily Peck and Margaret Harding McGill. Credits: Axios Today is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Alexandra Botti, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Alex Sugiura, Sabeena Singhani, and Lydia McMullen-Laird. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Go deeper: Ukraine: Apparent War Crimes in Russia-Controlled Areas (Human Rights Watch) Dashboard: Russian invasion of Ukraine Employers revamp background checks to help fight labor shortage America gets a clean record Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What do I do?
0:01.2	What do I do?
0:02.4	What do I say?
0:03.6	What do I say?
0:30.0	Good morning, welcome to Exeos today, it's Monday April 4th, I'm Nailibudu, today
0:39.8	removing barriers to employment for people with criminal records, but first reports
0:45.1	of possible war crimes in Ukraine, that's today's one big thing.
0:53.6	Russian forces retreated in recent days from the area around the capital Kiev, leaving
0:58.1	Ukrainian forces and civilians to take stock of the devastation.
1:02.1	In Bucha, northwest of Kiev, Ukrainian troops and international journalists have reported
1:07.9	finding brutalized bodies in evidence of mass graves, prompting fresh international outrage
1:14.2	about war crimes.
1:15.9	Rachel Denver is the deputy director of the Europe and Central Asia Division at Human Rights
1:20.2	Watch, an international nonprofit that documents human rights abuses worldwide.
1:25.2	Hi, Rachel.
1:26.2	Thank you so much for letting me.
1:28.0	You all published a report yesterday on the apparent war crimes in this war.
1:34.4	What have you documented out of Bucha in particular?
1:37.4	Well, in Bucha, we documented one war crime, and that was the summary execution of a man
1:45.8	on March 4th.
1:46.8	We have an eyewitness who saw it happen, she saw versus soldiers bring four young men
1:51.8	out to a square, forced them to their knees, shoot one in the back of the head, he fell
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