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PARIS (AP) – Evidence suggests that two Russian airstrikes deliberately targeted a theater used as a shelter in the besieged city of Mariupol, the rights group Amnesty International said in a report released on Thursday.
The report condemned the attack as a war crime. Amnesty said there was no evidence that the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theater was a base of operations for Ukrainian soldiers and any indication that it was a refuge for civilians seeking protection from weeks of relentless shelling and airstrikes.
The March 16 airstrike devastated the building and its rear and side walls collapsed directly on a field kitchen used as a community place for food, water and scarce news of evacuations and the war.
City officials initially estimated about 300 dead. An Associated Press investigation found the attack killed at least 600 people inside and outside the building. Most of the two dozen survivors and witnesses interviewed by AP put the number even higher.
Amnesty International researchers have identified 12 of the dead.
Those who testified “saw bodies, remains of bodies. And this is how we can try to reconstruct. But the truth is that we will never know the truth. We will never get the final figure. And what is more or more horrible to me is that we will never know the whole names, “said Oksana Pokalchuk, Amnesty’s director general for Ukraine.
The Amnesty team interviewed 52 survivors and first-hand witnesses, about half of whom were in or near the theater. Using satellite images of that morning, they determined that the sky was consistently clear enough for any pilot to see the word “CHILDREN” written in giant Cyrillic letters on the front and back of the building.
Physicists and weapons analysts examined footage of the rubble and determined that two 500-kilogram bombs dropped from a Russian jet were the most likely ammunition. Their finding is consistent with the testimony of several witnesses who told The Associated Press they heard two explosions.
Thursday’s report suggested the toll was not as high as the one quoted by AP or the city, citing some witnesses who believed the building had become vacant due to evacuations in the two previous days.
Although two days of evacuation of Mariupol on March 14 and 15 did indeed empty the theater, newcomers immediately filled the space again, according to almost all the witnesses interviewed by the AP, including a family who arrived on the morning of March 16. . find no place for them and a man who worked at the “check-in” area on the ground floor.
AP created a 3D model of the building’s floor plan that was repeatedly reviewed by direct witnesses, most from inside the theater, describing in detail where people were hiding. All the AP witnesses said at least 100 people were just outside the field kitchen, and none survived. They also said the rooms and corridors inside the building were crowded.
By the time the theater closed, Mariupol’s thousands of residents had been without electricity, running water or internet for more than two weeks. Families have lost contact with each other, and many remain out of touch to this day, giving people no way to find out if a loved one is alive or dead.
A telegram chat for people looking for the missing has thousands of names of Mariupol, and the toll of the war against the city will probably never be known.
In the days following the airstrikes, Russian forces took control of the city center. The theater was pushed and any remains were taken to the ever-growing mass graves in and around Mariupol.
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