Re: ok, so
Posted by kit on 2022-April-7 21:38:49, ThursdayIn reply to ok, so posted by Godspell on 2022-April-7 19:20:23, Thursday
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I don't think people should have to leave their homes and their towns to go live in some other country just because the government at home doesn't want them. We hear this argument quite a lot about the Palestinians: there are so many other Arab states, why don't they go and live in one of them? The answer being, of course, that they shouldn't have to: they should be able to live peacefully in their own communities without being harassed or brutalised by anybody. But my issue is really with the facts Kevin cites. Kevin says that it is not in dispute that the Ukrainian forces (or irregular militias) have killed thousands of 'ethnic Russians' (whatever that means) in the east of the country since 2014. But I think that this claim is very much in dispute: I have not been able to find verification for it anywhere - not only from the Western press (my Russian isn't good enough to read the Russian media), but not from apparently impartial sources like the Red Cross and Human Rights Watch either. Indeed, these sources tend to blame Russian-backed insurgents in the eastern provinces for the majority of the violence against civilians. I simply do not believe that there have been large-scale targeted killings of Russian-speakers in the Donbas region. And even if there had been, would it not make sense to see this violence in the light of a Ukrainian civil war fomented and funded by the Kremlin? |
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