Part of the problem is that there are few people or institutions actually keeping track of the dead. While a proper accounting of the human toll of organized violence is critical to achieving justice and stability, it is a tricky endeavor.
Paraphrasing the Greek dramatist Aeschylus, in war, terrorism and crime, truth is the first casualty. Originally published on the Small Wars Journal This means, according to our analysis, that war crimes could already have taken place before March 2022’ explains Dr Chiara Redealli.The Tricky Business of Counting the Costs of Armed Conflict in Cities What has changed, since February 2022, is the intensity of the violence and its impact on the civilian population. Indeed, according to IHL criteria, there have been an IAC between Russia and Ukraine and two NIACs in Ukraine since 2014. ‘Russia’s invasion of Ukraine did not change our classification of the armed conflicts in the region. Europe is also the theatre of an international armed conflict (IAC) between Ukraine and Russia, and of two non-international armed conflicts (NIACs) in Ukraine opposing governmental forces with the self-proclaimed ‘People’s Republics’ of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine. The following military occupations constitute the majority of armed conflicts that are taking place in Europe, four out of seven conflicts: Russia is currently occupying Crimea (Ukraine), Transdniestria (Moldova), as well as South Ossetia and Abkhazia (Georgia), while Armenia is occupying parts of Nagorno Karabakh (Azerbaijan).
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