Russian forces killed and wounded quite a few civilians in eight assaults in Chernihiv metropolis in northeastern Ukraine in early March 2022, Human Rights Watch stated at this time. 4 of those assaults, from the air and floor, have been in clear violation of the legal guidelines of struggle. They included the bombing of an condo advanced that killed 47 civilians, an assault that killed not less than 17 individuals in a bread line outdoors a grocery store, and two separate assaults, together with one utilizing extensively banned cluster munitions, that broken two hospitals.
Ukrainian forces could have positioned civilians in danger in 5 of the Russian forces’ assaults, together with one the place Territorial Protection Forces had established a base at a college. One among these Russian strikes hit a hospital, which has enhanced protections below the legal guidelines of struggle, making the strike on the power illegal regardless of the doable presence of a army checkpoint close to the hospital. The 4 different strikes should still have violated prohibitions towards indiscriminate or disproportionate assaults, regardless of the obvious close by presence of Ukrainian troops.
“Russian forces in March repeatedly attacked populated areas in Chernihiv from the bottom and air with seeming disregard for civilian lack of life,” stated Belkis Wille, senior disaster and battle researcher at Human Rights Watch. “The failure of Ukrainian forces in some areas to take away civilians added to the casualties, however the attacker should nonetheless distinguish between civilians and combatants.”
The Russian army started attacking Chernihiv on February 24, the primary day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Human Rights Watch investigated assaults on town that occurred between March 3 and March 17. Whereas Russian forces by no means captured Chernihiv, by late March that they had successfully surrounded town, trapping civilians and subjecting them to additional bombardment. Russian forces withdrew from the realm on March 31 as a part of their broader retreat from the Kyiv and Chernihiv areas.
Between March 8 and Might 9, Human Rights Watch interviewed 34 individuals together with 24 witnesses to the eight assaults, in addition to emergency responders, Chernihiv Regional Administration officers, and native prosecutors, who supplied civilian casualty figures. On April 19 and 20, researchers inspected the websites of the eight assaults.
Human Rights Watch additionally reviewed satellite tv for pc imagery to corroborate the dates and scale of the injury, and to assist decide the placement of any Ukrainian forces within the neighborhood of the assaults. Obituaries of Ukrainian troopers printed in native media additionally helped to evaluate whether or not Ukrainian army personnel have been within the neighborhood of the assaults.
The Ukrainian Division of Medical Take care of the Chernihiv area stated that not less than 98 civilians have been killed within the eight assaults and not less than one other 123 have been wounded. The division’s head stated that these numbers have been primarily based on reviews from native hospitals, emergency medical companies, and the official morgue logbook. The official supplied Human Rights Watch with the names, ages, and genders of twenty-two of the individuals killed and 122 of the individuals wounded within the assaults. She stated forensic consultants have been nonetheless compiling the private info associated to the opposite casualties and that she would share this with Human Rights Watch when it was full.
Within the deadliest of the eight assaults, Russian forces on March 3 dropped a number of unguided bombs on an condo constructing advanced, killing 47 civilians. “When the explosions occurred, I noticed individuals falling out of the home windows,” a resident of one of many buildings stated. “A few of them have been on fireplace.” A number of witnesses interviewed stated they didn’t consider that any Ukrainian forces have been within the space on the time.
In a March 17 assault on town middle, Russian forces launched an Uragan cluster munition rocket that broken a medical advanced housing two hospitals. Native officers stated the assault killed 14 civilians and injured 21 others. Witnesses stated they noticed no army targets within the space on the time.
Since its invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces have repeatedly used cluster munitions, that are inherently indiscriminate weapons, in assaults which have killed a whole bunch of civilians and broken properties, hospitals, and colleges. Ukrainian forces seem to have used cluster munitions not less than as soon as.
Severe violations of the legal guidelines of struggle, together with indiscriminate and disproportionate assaults, dedicated with prison intent – that’s, intentionally or recklessly – are struggle crimes. People can also be held criminally answerable for try to commit a struggle crime, in addition to aiding in, facilitating, aiding, or abetting a struggle crime. Commanders and civilian leaders could also be prosecuted for struggle crimes as a matter of command duty after they knew or ought to have recognized concerning the fee of struggle crimes and took inadequate measures to forestall them or punish these accountable.
The Russian assaults in Chernihiv reveal the devastating impression on civilians and civilian infrastructure when armed forces use explosive weapons with wide-area results in populated areas, and the elevated chance of illegal indiscriminate and disproportionate assaults.
These weapons have a big harmful radius, are inherently inaccurate, or ship a number of munitions on the similar time. Lengthy-term results of their use embrace injury to civilian buildings and significant infrastructure, interference with companies equivalent to well being care and training, and displacement of the native inhabitants.
Of the 4,266 civilian deaths and 5,178 civilian accidents that the Workplace of the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights recorded in Ukraine between February 24 and June 7 – most definitely a major undercount – the bulk have been brought on by explosive weapons with wide-area results, together with shelling from heavy artillery and multi-barrel rocket launchers, and missile and airstrikes.
Russia and Ukraine ought to keep away from utilizing explosive weapons with wide-area results in populated areas, Human Rights Watch stated. All international locations ought to assist a powerful worldwide political declaration to raised defend civilians from the usage of such weapons in populated areas.
“The Russian forces’ devastating floor and airstrikes on Chernihiv present why explosive weapons shouldn’t be utilized in populated city settings,” Wille stated. “All governments ought to decide to strengthen protections for civilians from the usage of explosive weapons in villages, cities. and cities.”
March 3 Airstrike on Condominium Complicated
On March 3 at about 12:15 p.m., Russian plane dropped a number of unguided bombs at an intersection on Chornovola Avenue in a residential neighborhood within the middle of Chernihiv. Native authorities stated the assault killed not less than 47 civilians and wounded 32. The assault broken an condo constructing and several other different residential and industrial buildings, one in all which contained a pharmacy.
Human Rights Watch spoke by telephone to a few witnesses to the assault, together with a health care provider and two Chernihiv residents. Human Rights Watch additionally verified and analyzed 22 movies and 12 images taken throughout and simply after the assault.
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“It was like a windstorm as the entire basement stuffed up with mud,” the physician stated. “Then there was an explosion. A number of home windows have been blown out, and there was a whole lot of vibration. Now we have explosions daily, however this one was very highly effective.”
The physician stated that he and his colleagues handled 35 injured individuals ranging in age from 7 to 55. He stated he remembered one boy whose ankle was lower open and a lady who had a metallic fragment from the munition in her face. A boy about 12 had metallic shards in his mind and injury to the cranium, he stated.
Human Rights Watch researchers who visited the assault website on April 19 noticed not less than 5 distinct impression craters left by munitions. No less than yet one more bomb had hit a close-by 18-story condo constructing, significantly damaging flooring 12 to fifteen. The blasts additionally significantly broken two nine-story condo buildings and blew out the home windows and significantly broken the facades of two different nine-story condo buildings. A pharmacy in one in all these buildings was additionally significantly broken, in addition to a medical middle that was not in use on the time.
The world had not come below assault since March 3.
Olena Piatkina, a resident of one of many broken buildings, stated she was within the basement sheltering when one of many bombs struck simply meters from her constructing:
After the explosion, I appeared left and noticed mild coming into the basement. I began crawling out via the rubble. I noticed a number of fires outdoors. As I used to be getting out of the basement, a person handed me a child that was coated in blood and requested me to assist him get out one other three kids who have been there in an condo. There was one lady who had been hit within the head and was coated in blood. The kids have been all in shock and crying.
Based mostly on its interviews and movies, Human Rights Watch discovered no indications that Ukrainian army forces have been deployed within the space on the time of the assault.
The strikes seem indiscriminate, in violation of the laws-of-war prohibition on assaults that aren’t directed at a selected army goal.
March 3 Assaults on Colleges, Homes on Biloruskyi Lane
In three assaults on March 3, Russian bombs hit two colleges and several other properties on Biloruskyi Lane, all inside a number of hundred meters of one another. Human Rights Watch interviewed eight witnesses to the assaults and noticed the injury.
Faculty 18 is a main and secondary college, however after the Russian invasion the native Territorial Protection Forces established their headquarters there, residents and volunteer help employees stated. On the similar time, the college was used as a distribution middle for meals and different help.
About 12:30 p.m., an plane flying overhead dropped a bomb, a witness stated. The munition induced extreme injury to 1 nook of the college, which Human Rights Watch noticed throughout a go to on April 19. No less than 150 individuals have been on the college when it was hit, a few of them Ukrainian armed forces together with from the Territorial Protection Forces, stated a witness.
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© 2022 Belkis Wille/Human Rights Watch
Native officers stated that 2 civilians have been killed and 14 have been wounded within the assault. A photograph posted to Fb on March 4 from the college, exhibits two our bodies coated in plastic sheets.
Both shortly earlier than or after the assault on Faculty 18, the plane dropped a bomb on Faculty 21, 250 meters away. A highschool scholar stated that he was within the yard of his residence, about 100 meters from the college, when he “heard a whistle, after which an enormous explosion.”
On the time of the assault, about 200 civilians have been sheltering within the college basement as a result of their properties didn’t have basements, the coed stated. A person dwelling close to Faculty 21 stated Territorial Protection Forces had arrange a army submit with sandbags in entrance of the college on the intersection with Biloruskyi Lane. One girl stated she noticed the physique of a Territorial Protection Drive member mendacity on the sandbags after the assault.
Volunteer employees have been on the bottom ground and first ground of Faculty 21, gathering clothes and different gadgets for the Territorial Protection Forces and cooking for them and armed forces personnel. The coed stated that there could have been some troopers coming out and in of the college to select up meals and help, and he noticed armed males driving in civilian vehicles. A person dwelling close to the college stated Territorial Protection Forces have been additionally sleeping within the college.
The strike on Faculty 21 destroyed a lot of the constructing. Native officers stated 3 civilians have been killed and 19 others have been wounded. The individuals killed and wounded have been on the bottom ground, the primary ground, or within the yard on the time of the assault, the coed stated.
One of many wounded survivors posted an Instagram story on March 3, since reposted on Twitter, by which she describes the assault.
The native information website Suspilne Media posted six obituaries for members of the Territorial Protection Forces who died within the assaults on Faculty 18, Faculty 21, and Biloruskyi Lane, indicating the army presence.
Simply after the 2 colleges have been hit, not less than two extra obvious bombs struck a cluster of homes on Biloruskyi Lane, about 150 meters from Faculty 21, leaving two massive impression craters, destroying not less than eight homes, closely damaging seven extra, and damaging the roof of one other, killing not less than six individuals. A college scholar stated he and his brother rushed to the destroyed homes after the assault to examine on their buddies:
Our buddies have been tremendous, however we determined to begin digging the place the opposite homes had been destroyed, and as we began, we heard voices from below the rubble. We received one girl and her mom out, and her 14-year-old son, however he was lifeless. We stored digging across the different destroyed homes and dug out one other three lifeless individuals: the older sister of my former classmate, her boyfriend, and an older man who I feel was her father or grandfather.
A lady dwelling near the homes that have been destroyed stated one household with many victims was that of Volodymyr Vasylchenko, whose mother-in-law, 86, was killed alongside together with his son-in-law Mykhailo Zheldak, 40, and Zheldak’s daughter Polina, a third-year language scholar; Zheldak’s son Glib, who was 14 and in seventh grade; and a pal of Polina’s who was staying with the household.
“Individuals have been digging via the rubble and there was a voice,” the lady stated. “They took out a boy, it was little Glib…. His head was crushed.”
Zheldak’s spouse, Svitlana, and her mom and Volodymyr’s spouse, Valentyna Vasylchenko, survived the assault and had since left town, the lady stated. The Zheldaks had apparently moved into the Vasylchenko residence as a result of that they had presumed the realm was safer than the place they lived, however all have been killed apart from Svitlana and Valentyna.
Anatolii Vasylchenko, an emergency responder with the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Chernihiv, stated that primarily based on his evaluation of the crater sizes, he believed that plane had carried out all of the assaults in and across the colleges. The impression craters and scale of blast injury to buildings that Human Rights Watch noticed point out the usage of a big air-delivered blast weapon totaling 250 kilograms or better in weight.
Ukrainian forces failed to guard civilians below their management from the results of assaults by not eradicating them from the neighborhood of their forces, Human Rights Watch stated. Utilizing colleges for army functions can also be opposite to the Protected Colleges Declaration, which Ukraine signed in 2019.
Whereas the Russian assaults on the Territorial Protection Forces focused authentic army aims, the strikes on close by properties could have been indiscriminate as a result of they didn’t seem to have been directed at a selected army goal.
March 13 Assault on Myru Avenue Condominium Buildings
On March 13, two munitions struck a nine-story condo constructing on Myru Avenue, and 4 extra munitions left impression craters subsequent to the constructing. Human Rights Watch inspected the injury and interviewed two witnesses to the assault.
A resident of the constructing’s fifth ground, who was residence on the time, estimated that about half of the roughly 200 households dwelling within the constructing have been there when the assault occurred. Emergency employees needed to rescue him from his condo by crane, he stated. Researchers noticed heavy injury to the constructing, in addition to injury to 4 newly constructed condo buildings close by, none of which have been inhabited on the time of the assault.
The pinnacle of the Chernihiv Division of Medical Care, Tetiana Lebedeva, stated on April 20 that she didn’t know the variety of lifeless as a result of officers had but to take away all our bodies from the rubble. As of April 28, officers stated that they had dug out of the rubble and recognized six our bodies. Two residents instructed Human Rights Watch that three individuals – on the third, fourth, and sixth flooring, in addition to a pair and their three younger kids dwelling on the ninth ground, the Manko household, have been all killed within the assault. One of many two residents stated that not less than 5 constructing residents have been lacking because the assault. “My buddies used to dwell on the third and fourth flooring – all of them died,” one of many residents stated. “I used to go to them and now they’re all lifeless. They’re mendacity there below the rubble.”
Lebedeva and the 2 residents stated not less than eight individuals have been injured, together with the spouse of the person killed on the sixth ground, Volodymyr Bolshak, 49.
This was not the primary time the constructing had come below assault; a munition struck the seventh ground round March 7, and one other assault had left two small craters within the earth surrounding the constructing.
A constructing resident stated he thought he had seen Territorial Protection Forces within the basement of the constructing, and within the basement of one of many newly constructed towers subsequent door on the time of the March 13 assault.
Human Rights Watch reviewed satellite tv for pc imagery of Myru Avenue, collected earlier than and after the assault, which confirmed the presence of a number of roadblocks on March 11 and March 18. One roadblock is in entrance of the condo buildings that have been broken within the assault. A number of roadblocks are additionally seen on March 11 about 270 meters south of the condo buildings, on the intersection of Myru Avenue and Volodymyr Drozd Avenue.
Satellite tv for pc imagery recorded on March 18 exhibits a big deep pit on the opposite facet of Myru Avenue, throughout from the buildings that have been broken. The aim of the pit stays unclear, nevertheless it may need been used to guard an armored automobile. The impression craters and broken buildings seen within the March 18 picture are in step with witness accounts of the assault and what Human Rights Watch noticed on the website. Human Rights Watch discovered no obituaries of Ukrainian armed forces personnel from that point and place.
The lawfulness of the assault will rely partially on whether or not Territorial Protection Units and army automobiles, all of that are authentic army targets, have been on the website. Nonetheless, even when Ukrainian forces have been deployed close to or within the constructing, the assault would want to discriminate between combatants and civilians, and the anticipated lack of civilian life couldn’t be disproportionate to the anticipated army achieve from the assault. If no army aims have been current on the time, the assault would have been illegal.
March 16 Assault on Bread Line on Dotsenka Avenue
On March 16 at round 9 a.m., dozens of individuals have been gathered at a gate in entrance of a loading dock at a Soyuz grocery store ready at no cost bread when a munition struck in entrance of the road. Ukrainian authorities reported that not less than 18 individuals have been killed and one other 26 have been wounded. Human Rights Watch interviewed 4 witnesses to the assault, and one who arrived on the website half-hour later.
Dominic Serdiuk, 14, stated he was ready according to different neighborhood residents who had heard that they might get bread:
At first it was quiet and calm, however then abruptly there have been bangs, then grey smoke, after which an explosion. Individuals fell to the bottom after which one thing started to stink. I discovered myself mendacity on the bottom and I appeared down and noticed a wound and blood on my left knee and one other on my proper knee. An outdated girl came visiting and used a bit of material as a bandage to cease bleeding and tied it above my left knee, and a person coated my left knee with some fabric and carried me on his shoulder towards my home. Earlier than we received there, 4 males came visiting and lay me on a slab of wooden and took me to a faculty that was getting used as a makeshift clinic.
Serdiuk obtained medical remedy and when interviewed on April 19 was in a position to stroll with a limp. His physician instructed him {that a} fragment of bone in his left knee was lacking.
On the time of the assault, one other munition hit an condo constructing 150 meters away. A constructing resident stated the explosion induced a hearth that killed a lady dwelling on the primary ground of the constructing, and one other, Oleksandra, 65, dwelling on the fourth ground. One other neighbor, Valentina Zakharovna, 73, died whereas ready within the bread line, the resident stated.
Human Rights Watch examined the crater that the munition left and markings on the wall brought on by the explosion, in addition to the stays of the gates, which had quite a few holes blown via them from the assault.
All 5 witnesses stated that to their information, no Ukrainian armed forces, together with Territorial Protection Forces, have been within the space on the time. One grocery store employee stated that he had seen troopers across the loading dock for just a few days in late February and early March, however that they had left the realm days earlier than the assault. On April 19, Human Rights Watch discovered a Ukrainian army uniform in a nook of the loading dock space however was unable to find out the way it received there or when. Human Rights Watch discovered no obituaries of Ukrainian armed forces personnel from the date or place of this assault.
The strikes seem indiscriminate in violation of the prohibition on assaults that aren’t directed at a selected army goal.
March 17 Assault on the Kids’s Regional Hospital
On March 17 at about 9:30 a.m., not less than one Uragan cluster munition rocket struck a medical advanced containing the five-story Chernihiv Regional Kids’s Hospital on Pyrohova Avenue. Native officers stated the assault killed 14 civilians and injured 24 others.
Human Rights Watch interviewed two witnesses to the assault. Volodymyr Andriushchenko, a pediatrician on the kids’s hospital, stated that not less than 20 sufferers have been within the hospital constructing that day, none of whom have been injured within the assault. He stated that metallic fragments pierced the partitions and shattered home windows of the hospital and wounded not less than one man, who was outdoors with a bunch of individuals smoking through the preliminary explosion. The wounded man was then dragged into the hospital.
Andriushchenko stated that, after the preliminary explosion, he noticed about 5 smaller explosions in what appeared like brilliant fireworks, going off inside just a few seconds of one another. After the assault, a automotive that had been parked outdoors the hospital was filled with small holes, “like a sieve,” he stated.
Andriushchenko stated that he noticed a number of unexploded submunitions within the space. He additionally discovered a small piece of chopped metal rod lodged within the insulation of his workplace window body that was apparently discharged by a submunition when it detonated.
Vasylchenko, the emergency responder, stated that his workforce discovered 4 unexploded 9N210 fragmentation submunitions dispersed from a Russian 220mm Uragan cluster munition rocket, together with one within the yard of the hospital, and the empty cargo part of the rocket that was lodged within the floor 20 meters from the primary hospital constructing. He confirmed Human Rights Watch {a photograph} of all of the submunitions that he stated they discovered on the hospital.
When visiting the location on April 20, Human Rights Watch recognized seven distinct impression craters from the submunitions used within the assault, together with 5 that present uniform fragmentation patterns, in addition to a number of spherical and oval holes in a skinny metallic fence, in step with the detonation of fragmentation munitions, inside 15 meters of the Regional Kids’s Hospital and 55 meters of close by Metropolis Hospital No. 1, which was not broken within the assault. Andriushchenko stated the assaults additionally affected a number of homes within the residential space surrounding the hospitals.
Vasylchenko stated that he was unaware of any army forces within the space on the time of the assault. Human Rights Watch discovered no indications that Ukrainian forces have been within the neighborhood on the time. No obituaries have been discovered of Ukrainian armed pressure members who died there that day.
Hospitals have enhanced protections below the legal guidelines of struggle, which make the strikes on this hospital advanced illegal. As well as, the usage of cluster munitions was additionally illegal, as they’re inherently indiscriminate weapons.
March 17 Assault on Chernihiv Metropolis Hospital No. 2
On March 17 at about 4:20 p.m., munitions broken Metropolis Hospital No. 2, positioned in a medical advanced in northeastern Chernihiv. The advanced additionally homes a maternity hospital and Metropolis Hospital No. 3, neither of which have been broken within the assault. Native authorities stated that two docs and two nurses have been injured by damaged glass. Human Rights Watch interviewed two witnesses to the assault.
A medical employee stated he was outdoors of Metropolis Hospital No. 2 on the time and heard a number of explosions close by. Most of the sufferers and medical employees sought shelter within the basement. Then the hospital itself was hit by three munitions, together with one on the trauma clinic.
“The following morning, we went outdoors and noticed that, as a substitute of snow, the whole lot was coated with shards of glass,” he stated.
Throughout a go to to the hospital on April 20, Human Rights Watch noticed that many of the home windows had been blown out and the roof was broken. Holes and cracks have been seen in a few of the exterior and inside partitions.
The medical employee stated he didn’t see any Ukrainian armed forces within the space on the time of the assault. He did see a number of policemen, who’re civilians, checking the paperwork of individuals getting into the constructing.
Iryna Goi, head of upkeep on the hospital, stated the army had established a checkpoint about 50 meters south of the hospital with two troopers who checked individuals’s paperwork.
Satellite tv for pc imagery from March 18 exhibits a possible roadblock about 50 meters from the hospital, in concerning the location that Goi had talked about, in addition to three round buildings with a roughly 4-meter diameter subsequent to the roadblock. Human Rights Watch was not in a position to decide their function. Satellite tv for pc imagery as of late April not confirmed indicators of the buildings.
A researcher from a Ukrainian human rights group visited the location on Might 13. Whereas the pits have been gone, the soil in these areas had been just lately disturbed, and the stays of a sandbag, typically used for army boundaries, lay just a few meters away.
Human Rights Watch discovered no obituaries from the assault linked to Ukrainian armed forces personnel.
Hospitals have enhanced protections below the legal guidelines of struggle, which make the strikes on this facility illegal. The presence of a army checkpoint close to the hospital doesn’t change the hospital’s protected standing.
Worldwide Humanitarian Regulation
Worldwide humanitarian regulation, or the legal guidelines of struggle, relevant through the worldwide armed battle in Ukraine may be discovered within the Geneva Conventions of 1949, the First Further Protocol to the Geneva Conventions (Protocol I), and customary worldwide regulation.
The legal guidelines of struggle obligate events to a battle to tell apart always between combatants and civilians. Civilians could by no means be the deliberate goal of assaults. Combatants are required to take all possible precautions to reduce hurt to civilians and civilian objects. Assaults could goal solely army aims. Assaults concentrating on civilians, or that fail to discriminate between combatants and civilians, or would trigger disproportionate hurt to the civilian inhabitants in comparison with the anticipated army achieve, are prohibited.
Forces should, to the extent possible, keep away from finding army aims – together with combatants, weapons, and gear – in or close to densely populated areas, and endeavor to take away civilians from the neighborhood of army targets.
Below the legal guidelines of struggle, hospitals and different medical amenities have to be “revered and guarded” in all circumstances. Medical amenities stay shielded from assault until they’re used to commit hostile acts which are outdoors their humanitarian perform. Even then, they’re solely topic to assault after a warning has been given setting an affordable time restrict, and after such warning has gone unheeded. The presence of injured combatants or armed personnel offering constructing safety doesn’t have an effect on the civilian character of medical amenities.
Attacking forces should not relieved from their obligation to take note of the danger to civilians, together with the obligation to keep away from inflicting disproportionate hurt to civilians, as a result of the defending occasion has positioned army targets inside or close to populated areas. That’s, the presence of forces in a populated space wouldn’t justify attacking the realm with out regard to the threatened civilian inhabitants, together with the obligation to tell apart combatants from civilians and chorus from disproportionate assaults.
Combatants are obligated, circumstances allowing, to present “efficient advance warning” of assaults which will have an effect on civilians. An “efficient” warning would take note of the timing of the warning and the power of the civilians to depart the realm. A warning that doesn’t give civilians enough time to depart for a safer space wouldn’t be thought-about “efficient.”
Ukraine, however not Russia, has endorsed the Protected Colleges Declaration, a political dedication to take concrete steps to make college students, academics, and colleges safer throughout armed battle, together with by agreeing to chorus from utilizing colleges for army functions. Illegal assaults on colleges and hospitals are among the many grave violations towards kids in armed battle that ought to set off inclusion on the UN secretary-general’s annual “checklist of disgrace.”
