New Zealand Needs to Do More to Investigate Aid Workers’ Deaths, Experts Say

The New Zealand government says it will not investigate whether the death of two aid workers, one of whom was a New Zealander, in Ukraine’s Soledar region a year ago, is a potential war crime. However, experts say more needs to be done, and the parents of the victim are pressing for the New Zealand and UK governments to send their investigators to Kyiv. Initially, Dame Sue and Professor Phil Bagshaw were told their son Andrew and British man Christopher Parry had been trying to rescue an elderly woman when their car was hit by an artillery shell. Subsequently, however, post-mortem results showed both men died from gunshot wounds to the head and other parts of the body. Under the terms of the Geneva Convention, intentionally killing a civilian in an armed conflict constitutes a war crime....