A Maidan protester and another Maidan medic, who were wounded near the same spot where these two protesters were killed, both testified at the Maidan massacre trial that they were shot from this building. Samuels said in a video [start at 55:16] that “…eventually, there is a consensus that there was a third party acting. American independence leader John Adams once defended the British soldiers charged with the Boston massacre in 1770.

It also includes CNN, which filmed the shooting of this medic and attributed it to the government forces. In the case of Yuriy Parashchuk, forensic medical examinations found that his entry and exit wounds were in the back of his head on the left side.

A female Maidan medic, whose wounding on the Maidan was highly publicized by Western and Ukrainian media and politicians and attributed to government snipers, is one of them. He received Ph.D. from the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. The new Ukrainian government is faced with reopening an inquiry into evidence of an organized mass killing in Kiev that Poroshenko stonewalled. This is done despite videos of such snipers and testimonies of the absolute majority of wounded protesters at the trial and investigation and more than 150 other witnesses about snipers in these locations.

He famously stated at the Boston massacre trial that “facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” He not only won this politically charged case of a crucial massacre in U.S. politics and history but became U.S. president afterwards. But the official investigation in Ukraine simply denies that there were any such snipers in Maidan-controlled buildings, even though the Prosecutor General Office of Ukraine previously stated that snipers massacred many protesters from the Hotel Ukraina and other buildings. It's panicking to see how many bad reviews there are about this documentary, simply describing it as "Russian propaganda", while the director decided to interview both the Berkut police and the rioters, and "full of lies", even if the documentary provides a lot of videos in order to cover what it says and it doesn't claim any definitive truth. Maidan Massacre is an investigative documentary into the shootings which occurred on February 20th, 2014, when nearly 50 people were gunned down on the streets of Kiev's Independence square.

As in Dallas, we have many people interviewed and many point of views. On 18-20 February 2014, in connection with the Ukrainian conflict, at least 100 people were killed in Maidan Square, Kiev.   | 

(President of Russia). They are published in Ukrainian and English on the linked website.

The complex medical examinations, which were published on the SITU website and which are presented by the government investigation in Ukraine as a key evidence that the Berkut police massacred the protesters, showed the same bullet trajectories as the 3D model.

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Actual wound locations of Dyhdalovych and their misrepresentation. Police in Hrushevsky Street, Kiev, Feb. 12, 2014. My Maidan massacre studies and their video appendices showed that this hotel was then controlled by the Maidan forces. The forensic medical reports also state that Dmytriv was wounded in his right shoulder from bottom to top direction, with this entry wound 5 cm lower, but the 3D animation also misrepresents this direction. The SITU reconstruction also missed bullet holes that appeared in Dmytriv’s shield and in a shield of another protester in front of Dyhdalovych in videos of their shooting that were used in the reconstruction. Not a single major Western media reported that a forensic ballistic examination, conducted by government institute experts on the prosecution request with use of an automatic computer-based IBIS-TAIS system, determined that bullets extracted from killed protesters did not match a police database of bullet samples from Kalashnikov assault rifles of members of the entire Kyiv Berkut regiment. By continuing to use this site you agree to the use of cookies. Un hiver sous les flammes: la lutte ukrainienne pour la liberté (2015), de Netflix. It is impossible to bend physical reality. Dyhdalovych’s wife stated in her Ukrainian media interview that another protester told her that he saw that Dyhdalovych was killed by a sniper on the roof of the Bank Arkada.

Musique. The latter included the special Berkut company charged with the massacre of the protesters. For some reason it remembered me about Kennedy's assassination: in Kiev, as in Dallas, we have a shooter, or maybe more than one. One does not need to be a ballistic expert to see that locations of wounds in the back and on the sides and top-to-bottom directions of wounds specified in forensic medical reports and positions of these three killed protesters facing the Berkut in the videos cannot physically match with Berkut police positions located on a similar horizontal level on the ground in front of them. There was not a single report in English-language media concerning testimonies at the Maidan massacre trial where 25 wounded Maidan protesters, with whose shootings Berkut policemen are charged, who stated that they were shot from Maidan-controlled buildings or areas. Major outlets likewise neglected to cover the testimonies by 30 wounded protesters who said they witnessed snipers in those locations or were told about them by other protesters. Contrary to the version immediately provided by the international media, some wiretap recordings have come to light, revealing that the massacre was apparently carried out by snipers at the orders of the new pro-western coalition. Contrary to the version immediately provided by the international media, some wiretap recordings have come to light, revealing that the massacre was apparently carried out by snipers at the orders of the new pro-western coalition. On the 20th February 2014 a series of events unfolded in Ukraine that would change the face of political relations in Europe.

Will the Commission clarify its own position, in the light of the revelations which have emerged? It was physically impossible for the police behind the wide and tall truck to shoot at him below over the top of this truck. The government investigation simply denies that there were any snipers there and in other Maidan-controlled buildings, and refuses to investigate them. A Maidan lawyer visually confirmed at the Maidan massacre trial that these wounds locations of were in the right and left sides. The Bank Arkada is a tall green building in the front and to the right of both Dyhdalovych and Dmytriv, and it appears to match the apparent directions of their wounds. Directed by John Beck Hofmann. Become Member of This includes The New York Times, which on April 5, 2014, profiled this wounded protester against the backdrop of an unquestioned report by the acting government in Kiev that blaming “former President Viktor F. Yanukovych, his riot police and their suspected Russian assistants for the violence that killed more than 100 people in Kiev in February.”.

In contrast, there were no such testimonies admitting involvement in the massacre or knowledge of such involvement by the Berkut policemen, ex-police and security services commanders; nor by ex-Yanukovych government officials. This model was featured by The New York Times, in its May 30, 2018,  report “Who Killed the Kiev Protesters?” as a proof that the Berkut police massacred Maidan protesters. For this reason, the official investigation was fabricated and stonewalled.

It also changed a similar large vertical angle from a top and bottom direction and 17 cm difference in height of entry and exit wounds to nearly horizontal level. My work found that this was an organized mass killing of both protesters and the police, with the goal of delegitimizing the Yanukovych government and its forces and seizing power in Ukraine. Rather, they were shot from a top-to-bottom direction and in sides or the back that are consistent with shooting from the Maidan-controlled buildings.

Testimonies by five Georgian ex-military members in Italian, Israeli, Macedonian and Russian media and their published depositions to Berkut lawyers for the Maidan massacre trial have also been ignored. No specific evidence of orders by then-president Yanukovych or his ministers and commanders to massacre unarmed protesters has been revealed by the trials, investigations or news reporting. The text of these examinations, which are available in Ukrainian and in English translations, shows that these bullet trajectories were determined not by ballistic experts butby medical experts without any calculations or explanations. This was the best documented case of mass killing in history, broadcast live on TV and the internet, in presence of thousands of eyewitnesses. The 3D model moved the exit wound location from around the middle line of the back of Andriy Dyhdalovych’s body in forensic medical and clothing examinations significantly to the right. Alice Wonders. But her words were translated in a BBC report as referring to six protesters killed by the snipers in that area. The locations of these bullet holes are inconsistent with shooting from the Berkut barricades.