{"id":49809,"date":"2014-11-17T12:55:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T12:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=49809"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:29:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:29:31","slug":"media-blackout-as-u-s-sponsors-genocide-in-southeastern-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/11\/media-blackout-as-u-s-sponsors-genocide-in-southeastern-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Blackout as U.S. Sponsors Genocide in Southeastern Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here\u2019s a typical example of what\u2019s being blacked-out:<\/em><\/p>\n

This is a photo of a Ukrainian soldier guiding a truck-full of prisoners toward a ditch, to which the prisoners are then dragged one-by-one, and thrown in, and shot \u2014 then covered over with dirt after all the corpses (and perhaps some living bleeding survivors) are piled in it. <\/em><\/p>\n

(Of course, any survivors then quickly choke to death, from the dirt):<\/em><\/p>\n

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And\u00a0here\u2019s an explanation<\/a>\u00a0of how this extraordinary video of a genocide being carried out, came to be found by the resistance-fighters against Ukraine\u2019s war to exterminate the residents in Ukraine\u2019s southeast, Ukraine\u2019s region where the vast majority of the people are ethnic Russians, or commonly called \u201cMoskals\u201d by many people in northwestern Ukraine, which term employed by them is equivalent to the terms \u201cnigger,\u201d and \u201ckike\u201d that are used in some other countries: all psychological terms of de-humanization.<\/p>\n

Though this video of a genocide-in-action is rare, the event itself is routinely happening in southeastern Ukraine, so that the Ukrainian Government can reduce the population in the area of Ukraine that had voted over 80% for the Ukrainian President whom the Obama Administration overthrew in\u00a0a violent CIA-paid, U.S.-State-Department planned-and-run, coup, that climaxed on 22 February 2014<\/a>. The new Government is trying to eliminate enough of the people who had voted for him so that the coup-imposed regime will be able to stay in power \u2018democratically,\u2019 with those Russia-friendly voters gone \u2014 enough of those voters gone so that America\u2019s coup-regime can continue even as a democracy.<\/p>\n

This is the video from which that still-photo is taken \u2014 you can see this entire event (except the burial) here: http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/view?i=3f9_1413978229<\/a>. The victims, who are shoved into, then shot in the ditch, are all dressed in\u00a0civilian clothes. They\u2019re not soldiers.<\/p>\n

As is evident from that video, the troops who are executing these people don\u2019t care whether any one of the bodies down in that ditch are still alive; the next victim just gets thrown promptly on top, and shot. These troops are interested only in speed, without concern for victims.<\/p>\n

Their only \u201cconcern\u201d for the victims is to rape the ones they want, and to kill as many of the residents who live there as possible. The objective is officially called \u201cpunishment.\u201d That\u2019s the Ukrainian Government\u2019s term. The aim is to make them suffer.<\/p>\n

Here<\/a>\u00a0is how deeply immersed in hatred of \u201cMoscals\u201d these people are. The Ukrainians who fought on Hitler\u2019s side in WWII are heroes to them. An American friend who happens to live in the conflict-zone, the southeast, where the \u201cMoskals\u201d are predominant, wrote me today about the city of \u201cMariupol. The hospital there is being inundated with rape victims. A lot of girls are just going missing. People are disappearing constantly. The photo enclosed is from Artemosk yesterday. The Ukraine army ran over the car killing two people. It got stuck on top of the car.\u201d Kill them however you can, is their assignment. Soldiers in the Ukrainian Army are taught that everyone who lives in these areas is the enemy. Killing the residents there is considered to be \u2018patriotic.\u2019<\/p>\n

There is also\u00a0plenty of bombing, and firing missiles at, the cities and villages there, to destroy people and buildings<\/a>, so that many of the surviving residents will flee over the border into neighboring Russia, from whence they\u2019ll never again be allowed to vote in a Ukrainian election \u2014 thereby further reducing the number of those voters in Ukrainian national elections. Such\u00a0bombing and shelling seem to be the Government\u2019s main methods of eliminating residents in the southeast<\/a>. Also,\u00a0white phosphorous and other illegal weapons of terror are used, in order to especially induce the residents to evacuate into Russia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is a \u201cgenocide\u201d against ethnic Russians whose families have lived inside Ukraine, in many cases, for centuries. It is also, and in the very same sense, an \u201cethnic cleansing,\u201d to lock-in the anti-Russian regime that Obama installed earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the people who have been fleeing into Russia<\/a>. Every one of those busloads of refugees exiting Ukraine is further success for Obama\u2019s plan, because it means fewer pro-Eastern, anti-Western, voters.<\/p>\n

So, as you can see, the new Ukrainian Government is having considerable success in its efforts to murder and terrorize enough of the residents there, for Ukraine\u2019s electoral map to be no longer as favorable as it formerly was toward political candidates who prefer Russia over the United States. This is a way to gain a new ally against Russia, right next door to Russia. It\u2019s conquest of Ukraine\u2019s southeast, by Ukraine\u2019s northwest.<\/p>\n

Here is a\u00a0Gallup poll that had been taken throughout Ukraine in April 2014, just after the coup<\/a>. As you can see, the northwest liked the U.S., the European Union, and NATO, while the southeast liked Russia and didn\u2019t want to join either the EU or NATO. Furthermore, Crimeans, the residents in what had been the far-southernmost part of Ukraine, loathed Ukraine, and were relieved to be restored again to Russia. Sectional differences in Ukraine are extreme. Obama forced the Russia-haters into power, and wants to keep them in power.<\/p>\n

Moreover,\u00a0Gallup had polled 500 Crimeans during\u00a0May 16-30\u00a0in 2013, and found<\/a>\u00a0that only 15% considered themselves \u201cUkrainian\u201d at all. This was when Crimea was still part of Ukraine. 24% considered themselves simply \u201cCrimean,\u201d which nonetheless was a renunciation of any Ukrainian identity for themselves; so, that\u2019s 24% who didn\u2019t think of themselves as being Ukrainian. And additionally, 40% \u2014 a number virtually matching the totality of the other two, and nearly three times larger than the percentage who called themselves \u201cUkrainian\u201d \u2014 considered themselves already to be \u201cRussian,\u201d even before the coup. The people there overwhelmingly wanted to secede from Ukraine, and they preferred to be part of Russia, just as Crimea had been prior to 1954.<\/p>\n

Immediately after the coup, Russia sent troops into Crimea to preserve its Black Sea Fleet which has always been stationed there; and this military presence protected Crimeans, too, against the ethnic cleansing that was quickly started by the new Ukrainian regime to eliminate the residents in other areas of Ukraine\u2019s southeast than Crimea. You\u2019ll see those areas in purple on Ukraine\u2019s 2010 electoral map, with the purple areas being the ones where the election\u2019s pro-Russian winner, Viktor Yanukovych, had received over 80% of the vote. Here is the\u00a0map of that 2010 vote, with the purple areas<\/a>\u00a0being the same areas that are now being ethnically cleansed.\u00a0This map shows the exact voting-percentages: the three districts that voted more than 80% for the man whom Obama overthrew<\/a>\u00a0are now the ones that either broke away from Ukraine or are trying to. This is where the genocide is being concentrated. The people who live there aren\u2019t wanted by Kiev\u2019s new Government; only their land is.<\/p>\n

Back when the U.S-engineered \u201cMaidan\u201d demonstrations had first placed into power a\u00a0pro<\/em>-U.S. Ukrainian President, Yanukovych\u2019s opponent in 2004,\u00a0here is the election map, which showed just the same areas that were strongly pro-Russian then as now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Obviously, the U.S. CIA, and State Department, and President Barack Obama, can read electoral maps; and, as long as those voters in Ukraine\u2019s far-east stayed alive where they were, inside Ukraine, no anti-Russian regime in Ukraine would be able to remain securely in power.<\/p>\n

However, a pretext needed to be established in order to \u2018justify\u2019 this ethnic cleansing; and that pretext was that they were separatists who threatened the presumed (but always\u00a0fictional<\/a>) unity of the Ukrainian culture and State.<\/p>\n

In order to scare the residents in the pro-Russian areas and get them to become separatists \u2014 to become terrified enough for them to want to become part of Russia or else flee into safety inside Russia rather than to be attacked, bombed, and shot, by this new regime in Kiev \u2014 the Government, or actually one of its officials who happens to be\u00a0one of Ukraine\u2019s oligarchs, with a fortune over five billion dollars<\/a>, held a\u00a0massacre of peaceful pro-Russian demonstrators they trapped inside the Odessa Trade Unions Building on 2 May 2014<\/a>, and then\u00a0the army itself invaded other cities in the southeast on\u00a0May 9th<\/a>. By this time, many residents throughout the southeast, basically in the areas where Yanukovych had received over 80% of the vote, formed themselves into militias and moved to secede from Ukraine (to protect themselves and their families from the new regime), which this new Ukrainian Government promptly called \u2018terrorism,\u2019 and the Government announced an \u201cAnti-Terrorist Operation,\u201d or \u201cATO,\u201d in order to exterminate them. Also, many people in Ukraine\u2019s northwest\u00a0openly mocked the people who had been burnt and clubbed to death at the Trade Unions Building massacre<\/a>. The victims of that massacre were\u00a0blamed for the massacre<\/a>, because they had been \u2018terrorists.\u2019<\/p>\n

Here is how\u00a0Ukraine\u2019s Defense Minister described his plan<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be a thorough filtration of people. There will be special filtration measures put in place. We will filter out people, including women, who are linked to separatism, who were committing crimes on Ukrainian territory, crimes related to terrorist activities. We have a lot of information regarding this, and we have a formidable framework to combat this, and respective power structures will carry out this operation. Besides, this is a serious issue, related to the fact that people will be resettled to other regions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new Government is also\u00a0training Ukraine\u2019s children to view extermination of Russians as being a patriotic necessity<\/a>\u00a0for Ukrainians. There are summer camps to which children are sent to be taught Ukrainian nazi ideology, where they march under both the Ukrainian flag and also various nazi flags, sometimes including the swastika. Both at such camps, and inside the parliament, the\u00a0German nazi salute of the stiff right arm raised upward, with the hand and fingers positioned stiffly forward, is commonly given, as a sign of the individual\u2019s loyalty to the country<\/a>. Also,\u00a0Ukraine\u2019s military is increasingly filled with men who are tattooed with the swastika and other German nazi insignia<\/a>. The common heritage back to Adolf Hitler (whom America\u2019s WWII veterans went to war to defeat, of course) is being honored, not merely more overtly, but also more privately, by right-wing Ukrainians, as having been the leading edge of the new Ukraine, which U.S. President Barack Obama \u2014 the United States Government \u2014 installed on\u00a0February 22nd, and which perpetrated\u00a0the Odessa massacre on\u00a0May 2nd<\/a>, as well as the civil war that followed. These are America\u2019s\u00a0new<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0allies.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s all being blacked-out, in countries that claim to represent democracy. This black-out adds insult to the injury that the present regime is causing, and not only to Ukraine, but to US. It\u2019s complicity in this Administration\u2019s criminality. And it is\u00a0dangerous<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is no mere game. The public needs to know that this is happening, and why it\u2019s happening. Otherwise, there is no democracy, because what\u2019s at stake here is not only the character of today\u2019s America, but is America\u2019s future, and the world\u2019s. If the American people are manipulated about this, then they are no free people, and American democracy is then itself fake, no longer real, in any significant sense. Just a sham. And a shame \u2014 not of the public, but of the people who hide the truth from the public.<\/p>\n

Due to the Internet, this is the first genocide that is being documented in real time, as it occurs. Historians will note this genocide, and will also note where it was reported, and where it was not reported.<\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0<\/em>They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/a>,\u00a0and of\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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