CoE on Maidan Sniper Murders: Open Question if Ukraine Division+War started by Manipulation to Putch

*Strasbourg (CoE's Headquarters)/Angelo Marcopolo/-  Whether, or not, a Foreign or other Manipulation might have provoked, by Deadly "Snipers" who reportedly Killed both Policemen and Demonstrators at Kiev's Maidan Square, the Clashes which Brutaly Topled a signed Peace Agreement to form a Government of National Unity in Ukraine, pushing, instead, towards a Violent Putsch and to Divide the Country between 2 Opposed Sides at War since a whole Year now, which already Killed more than 6.000 People (including many Civilians), Wounded some 16.000 others, made 1 Million Refugees/IDPs and Destroyed so many Vital Infrastructures that a "Humanitarian Catastroph" notoriously Threatens 4,5 Millions People at the Donetsk/Luhansk Autonomist Regions, while EU's Economy has already been adversely affected (in the midle of a sharply growing International Competition on the way out of the recent Global Crisis), and the entire Europe -if not the World-  threatened by War, still remains an ..."Open Question" :

That's what practically results, in a Political point of view, from the strong Critical Denonciations made Today by a COE's High-Level International Panel, set up by the PanEuropean Organisations' Secretary General, Thornbjorn Jagland from Norway, and supported by EU Parliament in Strasbourg (See : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/euparliamentasksinternationalinvestigationonukrainesnipers.html), in order to Check National Efforts to Find and Punish serious Human Rights' Violations during the main Violent incidents which kick-started the Ukranian Conflict.

    - Indeed, after more than a Year (22/2/2014 - 31/3/2015) new Kiev Authorities' Failed Investigations on this obviously Crucial matter proved to be "Inefficient" and "Lacked Transparency and Independence", being on many points "Contrary to ECHR's case-law".  strongly denounced Today the Experienced Head of COE's High Level Panel, former ECHR President, Sir Nicolas Bratza, from the UK, together with the two other Members of that body, Volodymyr Butkevych, former ECHR Judge in Strasbourg, and Oleg Anpilogov, former Prosecutor in Ukraine, as well as CoE Secretary General's Envoy for Ukraine, long-time CoE's Human Rights' Director, Christos Giakoumopoulos, on the occasion of the Publication of a 1st Report on Investigations made on Maidan incidents.

    =>  In practice, this means that f.ex. Families of "Snipers"' Victims might be able to lodge a Complaint versus Kiev's Authorities to the PanEuropean Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, for Violating the Right to Life, and/or even for Lack of any "Efficient Remedy", (Articles 2  as well as 1, 6, 13, etc. of ECHR), by Failing to do at least an Efficient Investigation in order to Find and Punish those Responsible for the Worst, more Numerous and Crucial Maidan Square Murders.

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    But, meanwhile, the Killings by Bullets of Dozens of Police Officers and Demonstrators reportedly by unidentified yet "Snipers" at Maidan Square, provoked even Worse Brutal Clashes which resulted in the Cancellation of that Peace Deal, and to the Violent Conquer of Power unilateraly by one side against the other, which led to a sharp Division of the Country, from Crimea's reUnification with Russia, to Odessa's Massacre until Donetsk/Luhansk's Armed Conflict, evolving into a Year of War with many Thousands of Killings, 1 Million Refugees/IDPs and Massive Destructions mainly by Kiev's Military Attacks against Eastern pro-Autonomy Regions, etc.

     - "This was the most Serious episode" of the Maidan incidents "and constituted a Turning Point", underlines, indeed, CoE's well documented Report of almost 100 pages, published Today.

       - "The vast majority of those Deaths and injuries (attributed to shots fired by Snipers) took place between 18 and 20 February: on 20 February 2014 alone there were 49 Fatal Shootings, and 93 firearms injuries, on or near Instytutska Street", it notes.

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    + The Tape of a Phone between long-time Estonian Foreign Minister Umas Paet and then EU High Representative for External Actions Catherine Ashton from the UK, released soon afterwards at the Internet, revealed that, according also to a Medical Doctor helping the Maidan Victims, unidentified "Snipers", shooting from one and same Direction, had reportedly Shot and Killed both Policemen and Demonstrators, provoking the Violent Massive Clashes which resulted immediately in a Brutal and Total Political U-Turn, (See : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/calltoinvestigatekievnipersdropedateuparliament.html).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZEgJ0oo3OA8

         - “There is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers, it was not Yanukovich, but it was somebody from the New Coalition,” Estonian Minister Urmas Paet had said during that conversation" with Baroness Ashton, according to British mainstream Newspaper "Telegraph", (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10677370/Ukraine-Russia-crisis-live.html ), while others later pointed at some Foreign "3rd Force", etc;, even if without confrrmed proof yet.

    +++  In addition, another Phone Tape revealed earlier, revealed that the U.S. Assistant State Secretary for Eur-Asian affairs, Victoria Nuland, in a conversation with the American Ambassador to Kiev, Geoffrey Pyatt, after dismissing EU's position on Ukraine by a notorious ... "Fuck the EU !", prefering a (personaly familiar to her) UNO's Envoy, pushed to appoint, among the Opposition Leaders, Yatsenuk as Prime Minister, but Opposed Klitsko's entry into the Future Government, (See f.ex.: http://www.eurofora.net/forum/index.php/topic,652.msg825.html#msg825 + http://rt.com/news/nuland-phone-chat-ukraine-927 + http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957). This was exactly what was done, later-on, by the Rada, then controlled by Armed Extremists beating Dissident MPs, etc., as both Estonian Foreign Minister Paet (Comp. Supra) and "Wikipedia"'s French a.o. Editions reminded. To the point that, inevitably, it wasn't only the Russian Government, but also several others, including even German Governing Coalition Party's CSU's new deputy Leader, Peter Gauweiler, etc. among those who, at one point or another, more or less contested the Legitimacy of the way that the 2014 violent Political Change had been imposed.

    >>> However, as revealed Today CoE's Report, curiously, Kiev's new Authorities, apparently didn't even search enough to find anyone among those Deadly  "Snipers"anywhere else than only among the Ukranian Security Fore  "Berkut", where they reportedly Failed to catch anyone else than just one Handicaped Ukranian Policeman, who was, however, later liberated from Prison by a Judge's decision after many Months passed without finding any Hard Evidence for his supposed involvement, placing him under simple Home Arrest, added to an Electronic bracelet, from which he apparently managed, however, later-on to escape, after many Protests of his collegues, leading all those supposed Kiev's more than 1 Year long "Investigations" to a Total Deadlock...

    But the existence of those provocative Deadly Maidan Square's "Snipers" surprisingly shooting both against Policemen and Demonstrators, has been Confirmed even by he Findings of a German mainstream Radio-TV Media Reporter on the spot, already since 2014, as well as other sources.

    + Astonishingly, moreover, neither Kiev's Authorities, nor CoE's High Level Panel, don't follow at all anOther possible Lead, reportedly revealed recently by an Investigative BBC Reporter at the Anniversary of those Crucial Maidan's Clashes on February 2015, who Succeeded to Find and Interview not only a former Demonstrator and a Photographer who had witnessed that Snipers were firing even on Policemen from nearby Buildings, but also at least one among those Deadly "Snipers" :

A Gunman paid and hired by an obscure intermediary, together with other Snipers, in order to go to the 1st Floor of Kiev's Conservatory (as many other "Snipers" had notoriousy been seen Shooting also from the nearby "Ukrania" Hotel), waiting with an Arm to Shoot and Kill various People at the strategic "Frontline" point where Demonstrators faced Policemen...

Partly similar findings were also made by another Article published at mainstream German Newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" (FAZ), f.ex. concerning Snipers at the Conservatory, etc.

+ Meanwhile, a 60 pages-long, comprehensive Study of almost all the publicy available Data by a Canadian University Professor of Ukranian origin, Dr. Ivan Katchanovski, published since the End of February 2015, concluded mainly that "many Demonstrators were killed by Snipers located at the Maidan-controlled "Hotel Ukraina".

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 CoE's long-awaited Report's Publication had been Initially Anounced for the End of January 2015 - beginning of February, (including by the President of CoE's Parliamentary Assembly, Liberal Luxembourg's MEP, Anne Brasseur). But, later-on, COE's Secretary General, Thornbjorn Jagland, under the auspiced of whom the competent High-Level Panel has been established, questioned by "EuroFora" on that Date, already appeared unable to confirm that, and, soon afterwards, a COE's Official Anouncement postponed the Publication of that Report for the End of March.

    Meanwhile, the Ukranian Authorities changed no less than ... "3 Times" the person in charge of the General Attorney's Office, and this didn't help at all the Transparency and Continuity of the National Investigations on all the Violent Maidan Incidents, observed PanEuropean CoE's High Level panel....

    -  On the contrary, its President, Sir Nicolas Bratza from the UK, strongly Denounced, Today, the "Inefficiency" of Kiev's National Investigations during more than 1 Year now (February 2014 - March 2015), added to its "Lack of Independence", in addition to several "Obstructions", (particularly from the Interior Ministry). 

    Optimistically, however, CoE's Envoy for Ukraine, Christos Giakoumopoulos, preferred to attribute most of such Shortcomings to a period belonging to a "Past", against which, CoE's recently launched "Action Plan" for Ukraine, aims to bring a set of much needed Reforms, (f.ex. of the Judiciary, the Constitution, the Fight against Corruption, etc), in order to guarantee a better protection of Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law in that Country, (which, as COE's Secretary General, Thornbjorn Jagland, has recently replied to a relevant "EuroFora"s Question in Strasbourg, can become the main Pilars of a possible Reconciliation for a Peaceful Solution to the Ukranian Conflict in the fopreseable Future, : See : ...). But the too Long Delays, with Tragic Consequences, already marked in this regard, since February 2014 up to now, almost April 2015, obviously teach to be quite Careful in such matters...

    Curiously, the Press Conference organized on the occasion of the Publication of CoE's Report Today, wasn't, however, neither made at its Headquarters in Strasbourg, (not even Connected Electronicaly here, except from a merely passive streamline), thereby Hindering all Experienced CoE/EU's Journalists to raise any Question on this issue which affects all Europe, but was, on the contrary, restricted in a Kiev's area from where most Russian Journalists and/or Media had been until recently Excluded, while Donetsk/Luhansk Autonomist Regions' Journalists couldn't attend, (particularly when even a simple Donetsk TV Cameraman, holidaying with his Family, was recently Arrested by Kiev's Authorities and Accused to .."assist a Terrorist Organisation" !), while CoE's Assembly, as well as OSCE, have repeatedly Denounced several exceptionaly numerous and Heavy Press Freedom Violations committed in Ukraine, since early April 2014 until recently...

    When People know that EU Commission has often made Double Press Conferences in Strasbourg linked to Brussels, and that even a EUROCORPS' Commanding General, former ISAF's Chief of Staff, had easily managed to organize a Press Conference with Strasbourg's Journalists by simply Connecting the City's Press-Club via Skype with .. .Afghanistan, one can't imagine why it appeared to some so difficult to do alike in Kiev, (particularly for a so crucial and still "Burning" Democracy, Rule of Law and Human Rights' issue, which notoriously still risks to spread Counter-Productive Division, Conflicts and even War, at a Wider area throughout all Europe).

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+ Odessa Massacre : COE's Findings to be published Before Local Elections ?
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    + As scheduled, meanwhile, Bratza Confirmed also, that COE's High-Level Panel has recently Started to Check now anOther, long-awaited Investigation, by KIev's National Authorities, of the Atrocious Massacres committed Last Year, on May 2, 2014, at Russian-Speaking Sout-Eastern Ukraine's Odessa City, where several Dozens of Civilian People (including Young Couples of helpless Girls and Boys tragically staying Together until they were Killed),  were mainly Burned Alive inside a Trade Union's Building at the Central Square of the Town, after their Tents where they were trying to Exhibit Pictures of the Atrocities allegedly committed by Kiev's Military Attacks against Donetsk/Luhansk's Autonomist Regions since April 2014, as well as to Collect Signatures for a Petition in favor of a Popular Referendum for Federalisation and/or DeCentralisation of the Countryn, were Brutally Aggressed,  by fast-Running Mobsters, who had arrived mostly by Train, armed with Clubs, Stones, Knives or Guns, but also many "Cocktail Molotov"'" that thet systematically threw against the Building where the Dissidents had vainly seeked refuge, as many Videos clearly attest (Comp. : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/ukrainedissidentsattackedbymilitaryandextremists.html). 

    Despite the unexpected Delay, he promissed that CoE's Hgh Level Panel will try to Conclude this 2nd Report, (apparently even More Crucial for National ReConciliation in Ukraine, if Truth and elementary Justice at last prevail), towards the "Autumn" of this Year, (i.e. near the scheduled October 2015 Local Elections).

   CoE's PanEuropean Congres of Local and Regional Authorities (CLRAE) has already Voted, as early as since already last October 2014, a Resolution asking for "independent and thorough International Investigations", mainly on the "Maidan events in February 2014", but also "later on Odessa", as well as "in Mariupol" and "near Donetsk", (where were found "Mass Graves" including Women apparently Tortured and Killed in cold-blood),etc., (See ; http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/clraetopvoteonukraineasksinvestigations.html ).