April 4—Writing on his Twitter account yesterday, former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter said Ukraine needs to provide verifiable medical forensic data to sustain their accusations of Russian inflicted civilian casualties in the town of Bucha. “Anyone who makes knee-jerk judgments from unverified videos sourced from a side known for wild propagandistic claims, without waiting for verification of any kind, should probably stop calling themselves journalists,” he argues regarding U.S. media reports of Ukrainian civilians allegedly killed by Russian troops, based on videos supplied by the Ukrainian National Police. “Basic medical forensics would answer three key questions: the time of death, the mechanism of death, and if the bodies had been moved. Let’s see if the Ukrainians provide verifiable medical forensic data to sustain their accusations.” He said this includes: “The time of death. The mechanism of death. The location of death. Answer these three questions for each body. Then start pointing fingers. Until then, you’re literally spreading disinformation.”
Ritter went on, reported TASS, “at a time when Western public opinion is being shaped by an intense information warfare operation exclusively designed to paint Russia in a negative light, one would think objective observers would wait for the forensics before screaming ‘guilty.’”
Today, Ritter also posted on Twitter the contents of his RT op-ed on Bucha, for those who can no longer access RT, hammering in the irony. “The Truth About Bucha Is Out There, But Perhaps Too Inconvenient To Be Discovered” also makes the point about who might be interested in suppressing the evidence: Russia requested an emergency UNSC regarding what Moscow called “criminal provocations by Ukrainian soldiers and radicals” in Bucha. The sitting British president of the UN Security Council denied the request. Furthermore, Ritter exposes: “British chief prosecutor of the court, Karim Khan, announced in early March 2022 that he had launched an investigation into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Ukraine. Given the high profile of the Bucha allegations, one would imagine that Khan has dispatched a forensics team to take control of the crime scene and oversee autopsies on the victims to establish the time of death, mechanism of death, and whether the victims had died where they were allegedly found, or if their bodies had been moved there from another location. … This is the prime reason why Khan is not currently on the ground in Bucha.”
