UN Hints Russia Rigged Crimea Vote

UN Hints Russia Rigged Crimea Vote

Last month, a staggering 96.77 percent* of Crimea's voters reportedly chose to secede from Ukraine and join Russia, sending what Moscow described as an unequivocal signal that the region wanted nothing to do with its erstwhile leaders in Kiev.

But supporters of secession weren't willing to take any chances, flooding the airwaves with scare-mongering propaganda and violently repressing virtually any show of dissent, according to the findings of a confidential U.N. draft report on the human rights situation throughout Ukraine in the run-up to the vote.

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