Rape first, kill after
One for the “humans are a mistake” file:
Forensic doctors carrying out postmortem examinations on bodies in mass graves north of Kyiv say they have found evidence some women were raped before being killed by Russian forces.
Naturally. When you invade a country you obviously have to torture the women before you kill them.
Following the withdrawal of Russian troops from towns and suburbs around the capital, dozens of women have told police, the media and human rights organisations about atrocities they say they suffered suffered at the hands of Russian soldiers. Investigators have heard testimony of gang-rapes, assaults taking place at gunpoint and rapes committed in front of children.
Ukraine’s human rights commissioner, Lyudmila Denisova, has officially documented the cases of 25 women who were kept in a basement and systematically raped in Bucha, a town north of Kyiv now synonymous with Russian war crimes. Authorities have warned those cases could be the tip of the iceberg and accused Russian troops of using rape as an instrument of war.
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Much of the evidence collected by Ukrainian prosecutors will soon be forwarded to the international criminal court (ICC), which has launched an investigation into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine.
Too bad the US won’t be able to help with the investigation. We’re not part of the ICC. What that says about us I’ll leave you to contemplate.
“Well what were we supposed to do, kill first and only then rape?”
I see the Russians are kicking it old school, getting back to good old Imperial Russia and their Slavic barbarian roots… Considering how much of the second half of the 19th century was spend keeping the Bear contained, it’s hardly surprising.
BKIS, I suspect you mean second half of 20C.
Anywhoo, tarring a whole population with the sins of their masters is not helpful. I am sure there are a vast number of Russians who would be very happy to see the back of Putin. Removing such a dictator is not easy, though. Even democracies sometimes have trouble (ref Jan 6).
Perhaps the strength of the Ukrainian resistance comes from their Slavic barbarian roots. What? You didn’t know Ukrainians were also Slavic people?
Yes, a lot of time was spent keeping the Bear contained. Just ask the people of Cuba, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Chile, Nicaragua, etc, etc, etc. Or the Americans whose lives were destroyed during the red scares. Or yes, the Russians, whose country was looted by its Loigarchs with aid and connivance from American think tanks and banks. And yet, here we are, millions of lives, trillions of dollars, and nothing achieved.
Nope, definitely mean the 19th century specifically in reference to the Crimean War and the machinations of Bismarck, the Great Game, and the persistence of slavery in Russian territories nearly into the 20th century.
I’m also well aware of Ukrainian ethnicity… I got the impression that they were civilized or close to it. I’m not so arrogant as to think we’re so great since so many of our citizens *are* functionally barbarian cargo cultists but then again Putin is reaching for Imperial Russia’s past and that is a tale of undeniable savagery.