{"id":99890,"date":"2014-06-27T08:39:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T08:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=99890"},"modified":"2022-03-01T21:15:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T21:15:06","slug":"ethnic-and-cultural-cleansing-in-the-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=99890","title":{"rendered":"Ethnic and Cultural Cleansing in the Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Korybko — Voltaire Network June 25, 2014<\/h1>\n

During WW I pic cap: During World War I, the Emperor of Austria-Hungary imprisoned over 20,000 Rusyns and Lemkos, mainly intellectuals, in Talerhoff. It was not strictly speaking a concentration camp, but rather a wasteland where prisoners slept on the floor in all types of severe weather conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the centennial anniversary of \u201cRussophilic\u201d individuals (Rusyns) from modern-day Ukraine being sent to concentration camps, history appears set to once again repeat itself. The Ukrainian Defense Minister has publicly voiced his plan to corral the citizens of Donbass into special \u201cfiltration\u201d camps prior to forcibly resettling them in different parts of Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A few days later, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yatsenyuk declared the pro-federalists in the East to be \u201csubhuman\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source : Embassy of Ukraine in the United States, 15 June 2014. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

This choice of words not only wasn\u2019t condemned by Kiev\u2019s American patrons, but was actually defended by State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki, who strangely said that Yatsenyuk \u201chas consistently been in support of a peaceful resolution\u201d\u00a0[1<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>]. Raising concerns even higher that a full-fledged cleansing is being planned, Ukraine\u2019s land agency said that it will be giving \u201cfree land\u201d from the east to the military, Interior Ministry, and Special Services troops battling the federalists\u00a0[2<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>]. With Ukraine on the verge of large-scale ethnic and cultural cleansing, it is little wonder at whose expense this Lebenstraum-like \u201cfree land\u201d will be given.<\/span><\/p>\n

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At least a thousand prisoners died during their confinement at Telerhoff.<\/p><\/div>\n

1914 was the first time that people of a supposed pro-Russian affiliation were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. The Austrians imprisoned Rusyns and Lemkos (a closely related sub-ethnic group) in Thalerhof because their self-identification was seen as treasonous. In the same manner, the self-identification of the people of Donbass is also being seen as treasonous, at least according to Ukraine\u2019s Defense Minister Mikhail Koval. He was appointed to his position after his predecessor\u2019s dismissal following the reunification of Russia and Crimea\u00a0[3<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>]. Koval\u2019s extreme statement of intent for the people of Donbass also validates Russia\u2019s prior concerns in March, elaborated upon in the White Book on human rights violations in Ukraine<\/i>\u00a0[4<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>], that Crimea was facing an imminent humanitarian crisis before the reunification. If Crimea had not defended itself and reunified with Russia, now that the Ukrainian Defense Ministry\u2019s post-crisis \u2018resolution\u2019 plans have been made public, it is very likely that its citizens would already be imprisoned in a special \u201cfiltration\u201d camp of some sorts and forcibly moved out of their home region (if they survived the ordeal).<\/span><\/p>\n

What Koval has proposed to do to the citizens of Donbass is completely illegal under international law and characterized as a crime against humanity. Forcible deporting and transferring a population, imprisoning them for no reason other than their address, and specifically targeting an ethnic and cultural group is explicitly forbidden under Article 7 of the Rome Statute. Perhaps because Yatsenyuk and others in his administration believe the protesters in the east to be \u201csubhuman\u201d, they do not feel that \u201chuman rights\u201d apply to them. Accordingly, these \u201csub-humans\u201d won\u2019t have the right to their former property as well (due to the forcible resettlement), so it is likely that their homes and businesses will be the \u201cfree land\u201d that Kiev has promised to its militant henchmen deployed in the east.<\/span><\/p>\n

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According to the Russian government, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have sought asylum in Russia since the beginning of the crisis. They are hosted by their families and friends. However, the Western authorities refute this number because they are not grouped in refugee camps.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This flagrant violation of fundamental human rights is being absolutely ignored by Western governments, which are usually the first actors to prematurely blow the whistle on any suspected human rights violations and threaten military intervention. It is now seen that the human intervention\/responsibility to protect (HI\/R2P) rhetoric and slogans were nothing more than charades to pursue ulterior geopolitical purposes. In fact, contrary to their established HI\/R2P \u201ccredentials\u201d, the West, particularly the US, is actually aiding and abetting the Kievan regime that plans to carry out the cleansing\u00a0[5<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>]. Military advisors, millions in funds, and CIA and FBI support have flooded into Ukraine since the coup, and more than likely, they will all be directed eastwards towards violently suppressing the federalist protesters\u00a0[6<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>]. In this manner, the US is directly complicit in any and all war crimes that Kiev\u2019s conventional or mercenary forces carry out, up to and including Koval\u2019s ethnic and cultural cleansing plans. Thus, the six million people of Donbass are faced with the same type of humanitarian disaster that was thought to have been forever vanquished from Europe almost 70 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Andrew Korybko<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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History appears to be about to repeat itself in the Ukraine. Andrew Korybko explains<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":99895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99890"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250293,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99890\/revisions\/250293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}