The director of the Ukrainian office of Amnesty International announced her dismissal ,
Oksana Pokalchuk .
KYIV. UkraineGate . 6 . August . 2022 | Ukraine News .
On the evening of August 5, the director of the Ukrainian office of the international human rights organization Amnesty International, Oksana Pokalchuk, announced her dismissal from her post, which she wrote on Facebook .
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“I am resigning from Amnesty International in Ukraine. This is another loss that the war brought me. Favorite work, 7 years of life, plans for the future, and the last 5 months – a lifeline in the form of human rights work for the benefit of the native country during the war. Everything crashed against the wall of bureaucracy and a deaf language barrier. It’s not about English, it’s about the fact that if you don’t live in a country invaded by invaders and are tearing it to pieces, you probably don’t understand what it’s like to condemn an army of defenders. And there are no words in any language that can convey this to someone who has not felt this pain. Even yesterday I had a naive hope that I could fix everything. Let’s hold at least 200 meetings and still explain, reach out, convey our opinion. And that text will be deleted, and another will appear in its place. Today I realized that this will not happen.”
She added that important reports published during the war “must not contain data about the other side of the war, about the one who started this war.”
She concluded that she is leaving her post with the hope that “we will be able to move international organizations, make them more humane, more flexible and able to effectively respond to crises not only in Ukraine, but also in the whole world: where dictatorships and despots strive by force capture free people.”
Context
The non-governmental organization Amnesty International stated in its report that the Ukrainian military endangers the civilian population by creating bases and placing weapons in residential areas, including schools and hospitals.
The Ukrainian side immediately reacted to such a statement.
Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the President’s Office, commented on this as “participation in the Russian disinformation and propaganda campaign.”
The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba , said that “the Amnesty International organization is not about finding and reporting the truth, but about creating a false balance.”
Volodymyr Zelenskyi noted that the organization “wants to shift responsibility for crimes from the aggressor to the victim.”
“We will not allow our army to be spoiled,” said Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov.
Source: Ukrgate