Samuels said in a video [start at 55:16] that “…eventually, there is a consensus that there was a third party acting. Documentary, History, News, 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... See full summary ». forensic medical and clothing examinations, GlobalResearch Center for Research on Globalization. The same concerns the forensic examination findings that many protesters were killed with hunting bullets and pellets. American independence leader John Adams once defended the British soldiers charged with the Boston massacre in 1770. 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. It is clear from forensic evidence that people were shot in the back. 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.
Nor was it reported by the Times. 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. At the time of the killings of these three protesters, Berkut policemen were behind the barricades on Instytutska Street on the government side, while the protesters who were killed were in between Berkut and the Hotel Ukraina. They stated that their groups received weapons, payments, and orders to massacre both police and protesters from specific Maidan and Georgian politicians. Does it not consider it appropriate to open an investigation? View production, box office, & company info, John Beck Hofmann, He is the author of “Cleft Countries: Regional Political Divisions and Cultures in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Moldova.”, Comment on Global Research Articles on our Facebook page, Disclaimer: The contents of this article are of sole responsibility of the author(s). 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.
Some of the People’s Front party leaders were accused by various Ukrainian politicians and Maidan activists, such as Nadia Savchenko, and by five ex-Georgian ex-military members in Italian and Israeli TV documentaries, of direct involvement in this massacre. This bullet just narrowly missed a German ARD TV female producer.
For this reason, the official investigation was fabricated and stonewalled. The assumption in the 3D model that Dmytriv was shot by the single bullet is also contradicted by testimony of another protester who saw that Dmytriv was shot by “a sniper” from the Hotel Ukraina. | From the 18th to the 21st of February (and the two months preceding it) the Ukrainian people had initiated the Revolution of Dignity.
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. It is impossible to bend physical reality. Note to readers: please click the share buttons below. Ivan Katchanovski teaches at the School of Political Studies and the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa. *** Five years ago, the Maidan massacre in Kiev, Ukraine, of Feb. 18-20, 2014, was a watershed event, not only for the politics and history of Ukraine but also for […] It also includes CNN, which filmed the shooting of this medic and attributed it to the government forces. A Maidan lawyer visually confirmed at the Maidan massacre trial that these wounds locations of were in the right and left sides. It was physically impossible for the police behind the wide and tall truck to shoot at him below over the top of this truck.
I presented studies to support this as well as several online video appendixes with various evidence at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association in San Francisco in 2015 and Boston in 2018, the 2017 World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities in New York in 2017, and a joint conference by the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University and the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies in 2018, and published their summary in an academic press volume. 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. This is also shown in vide and photos — including some I took there after the massacre — and in videos and reports of shooting at journalists in the hotel with a Google Street View image from the first Berkut barricade. This website uses cookies in order to improve your browsing experience. 53 min
www.globalresearch.ca contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This was the best documented case of mass killing in history, broadcast live on TV and the internet, in presence of thousands of eyewitnesses. More specifically: three years after the events, an exclusive report by war correspondent Gian Micalessin in his investigation ‘Ukraine, the hidden truths’, has brought to light the confessions of some of the Maidan snipers, who admitted that it was not the men of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovich behind the massacre, but rather the heads of the opposition, supported by the European Union. Yet, to this day, no one has been brought to justice for this major and consequential crime. SITU diagram of victims’ locations and names. The government investigators also determined that another ARD room in the same hotel was shot at from the Music Conservatory building, which was then the headquarters of the Right-Sector-linked special armed Maidan Self-Defense company. The fences and the memorial would make it impossible to determine bullet trajectories on-site, which still has not been done by the investigation for five years after this mass killing. Ivan Katchanovski investigates. The massacre was the result of a massive three month long protest against the former Government of Viktor Yanukovich and his decision to reject a trade deal with the EU. (President of Russia). etc. 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. It contends that forces loyal to former President Victor Yanukovych — either snipers and/or the Berkut, a special anti-riot police— massacred peaceful Maidan protesters on the direct orders of Yanukovych himself. However, no expert knowledge or familiarity with the Maidan massacre or Ukraine is needed to see blatant misrepresentation of elementary data in that 3D model. 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. The new Ukrainian government is faced with reopening an inquiry into evidence of an organized mass killing in Kiev that Poroshenko stonewalled. Parashchuk in the blind spot below the line of fire from the police behind the truck. In a literal cover-up, large fences were recently erected on the crime scene for the construction of the Maidan massacre memorial, which would completely alter the landscape. Similarly, crucial testimonies of Maidan protesters, who witnessed the killings of Dyhdalovych and Dmytriv, are ignored by the Times’ report, SITU and the official Ukrainian investigation.
Very well-crafted documentary about one of the most peculiar and important turning-point day of recent history.
Brad Samuels is a founding partner of Situ Research, the New York architecture company that produced the 3D model of the killing of three protesters, which was presented by the Times as proof that such snipers did not exist and that 49 protesters were massacred by the Berkut police. Directed by John Beck Hofmann. The reports of those examinations were used in this simulation to determine the locations of the shooters. These segments were only shown to a small number of people at the Maidan massacre trial and are included in my online video appendix on YouTube. In the video of their examination of Dmytriv right after his shooting, Maidan medics also indicate such locations of his wounds with no wounds visible in the front area, contrary to the 3D model. Maidan massacre, four years on.
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. 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. Dozens of other Maidan protesters who were killed and wounded around the same spot were in the same situation. Valeriy Antonyuk, Symphonie № 4: The System of Desires; Laure A. Maïdan; Ouvrage The Centre of Research on Globalization grants permission to cross-post Global Research articles on community internet sites as long the source and copyright are acknowledged together with a hyperlink to the original Global Research article. 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.