A medic writhes in agony after being shot in the leg by Ukraine security forces, accused of deliberately targeting Red Cross workers as they tend to wounded protesters.
Other images show armed riot police dressed all in black, known as Berkut, taking aim at others wearing bright high-vis jackets marked with a cross.
The latest victim was hit on Friday. Colleague Lyana Bilous, 24, called for those responsible to be brought before a United Nations tribunal.
“He was a legitimate health worker wearing a bright orange jacket, part of the Ukrainian Red Cross,” she said. “There is no way you could have mistaken him for anything other than a medic.”
Professor Robert Van Voren, a Dutch human rights activist who has helped medics over the three months of violence in Kiev, added: “We saw Berkut beating up medical staff wearing red crosses.”
Expat IT worker Chris Taylor, 37, from Southport, Merseyside, said in January, riot police smashed up a medical centre and beat up one of the doctors.
Human Rights Watch have documented incidents of criminal abuse of medics by security forces and called for those responsible to be prosecuted as it breaches the Geneva Convention.
SOURCE-IRISH MIRROR
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