‘Absolutely horrifying’: Freeland promises justice for sexual violence victims in Ukraine
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The deputy prime minister told reporters Thursday that Canada is committed to seeking justice for the victims alleging sexual violence by Russian soldiers.
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada is committed to seeking justice for Ukrainian women and children as allegations mount of sexual violence by Russian soldiers.
Freeland was asked Thursday about war crimes that Russia has been accused of committing on Ukrainian citizens and the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
“War crimes have been committed in Ukraine, they are being committed in Ukraine. The evidence that we’ve seen in Bucha and other parts of Ukraine that have been under Russian occupation is absolutely horrifying,” Freeland said after a tour of a carbon capture facility in Calgary.
Freeland said Canada would work with its democratic allies to prosecute those responsible.
“Rape is being used as a weapon in this war and I want the women of Ukraine to know that we see them, we are not going to forget and we will work with Ukraine and with our democratic allies around the world to bring the perpetrators to justice.”
Freeland, who also serves as finance minister, said she spoke with her Ukrainian counterpart Thursday to voice Canada’s support.
She also said it’s appropriate to declare Russia’s occupation a genocide _ as U.S. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have said _ since thousands of Ukrainians have been killed and brutalized.
Freeland pointed to a “chilling document” on a Russian website published 10 days ago “that effectively laid out a plan for genocide in Ukraine, that called for the suffering, the punishment of people who chose, in the view of this document, wrongly and mistakenly to describe themselves as Ukrainian.”
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