in international law, mercenaries are already unlawful combatants. but we have found evidence suggesting that wagner may have committed war crimes. i met one man who says he witnessed his family being killed by the mercenaries in september 2019. they were all civilians. our eyewitness didn t want to be identified, but he told us that he caught a glimpse of one of the killers. translation: around 6am, they lined us in this room . and i was the last one on the side. one of them took his weapon. when he started shooting, i fell on my side and pretended to be dead. we can name him as vladimir andonov. he operates in the wagner group
this is ain zara, ten kilometres away from the centre of the libyan capital, tripoli. haithim fought these heavily armed russian fighters for nine weeks. translation: they are mercenaries. they only care about making money. this is what they do. it s theirjob. they kill people. they commit crimes for money. they are a criminal organisation. in international law, mercenaries are already unlawful combatants. but we have found evidence suggesting that wagner may have committed war crimes. i met one man who says he witnessed his family being killed by the mercenaries in september 2019. they were all civilians. our eyewitness didn t want to be identified, but he told us that he caught a glimpse of one of the killers. translation: around 6am, they lined us in this room and i was the last one on the side.