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by DuckFeathers 1146 days ago
The article you link seems to be criticizing it for their criticism of Ukraine for human rights abuses. It has been documenting what has been happening in Ukraine for a long time, in the Donbas and Luhansk regions. It has significantly reduced it in the past few years.

It's a faux agency used for corrupt western influence in the guise of "human rights". India banned it for good reasons.

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> It has been documenting what has been happening in Ukraine for a long time, in the Donbas and Luhansk regions.

Just so we're all clear — what has been happening in Ukraine for a long time is russian soldiers have been using force to try to annex Ukrainian territory.

The kremlin denied this for the better part of a decade, but have recently admitted that those little green men were actually russian soldiers.

Amnesty International don't get even half the criticism they deserve.

AI didn't criticize actual human rights abuses by Ukraine. They criticized Ukraine using abandoned civilian infrastructure as military bases near the frontlines (empty schools, malls etc).

The best possible interpretation is that it was hopelessly naive ("why don't they just camp in a empty field so Russia can kill them more precisely?") but more likely they tried to both-sides a war which simply does not have two valid sides.