The Tactical Use of the Ukraine By J.B.Gerald
27.5.17
News
stories of the Ukraine omit any mention of the country's Roma people, as
though the global corporate media as well would exclude them from
existence. The group's conditions of life show a severely oppressed
people, which isn't "news" because the Roma are so deeply persecuted
throughout Europe.
According to the "Joint Submission to
the [UN] Human Rights Council at the 28th Session of the Universal
Periodic Review," Ukrainian Roma often live isolated in settlements
called "tabor", and because of at-home births, birth certificates are
lacking. This deprives the children of citizenship which is theirs under
law but only gained through costly court procedures. It is one more way
the people are marginalised, denied State benefits, subjected to
detention etc. Acquiring citizenship is the current focus of Roma
efforts toward having any rights at all. (Note 1 and 2 ).
This norm suggests extreme trouble for all
Ukrainian minorities.
Historically Ukrainian nationalism has a
propensity for divesting the Ukraine of groups other than nationalist
Ukrainians. The Ukraine is in contention with Russia over Crimea and
Eastern regions: a large number of Russian-speaking Ukrainians believe
the Ukraine wishes to make them second class citizens, "others," or
foreigners. Authorities replace Russian street names with the names of
Ukraine's nationalist heroes best known for the massacres of Jews and
Poles. The country's Association of Holocaust Survivors notes an easing
of the government's habitual anti-Semitism as the current target of
hatred is being shifted toward Russians instead.
Canada's Ukrainian oriented Foreign
Minister Chrystia Freeland has announced Canada's support for
"sanctioning" (ie. punishing) Russian officials declared guilty of human
rights violations. This would involve a law allowing Canada to
confiscate any assets and property available, of sanctioned officials.
Fortunately Russia has not threatened to reciprocate. The possibility of
reciprocation for human rights violations in the ongoing systemic
genocidal practices against aboriginal peoples seems beyond the grasp of
Canadian politicians.
The web site Dances with Bears reports Foreign Minister
Freeland's recent encounter with her Russian counterpart where she
addresses him in Russian and he answers with the news that Ukraine is
drafting a law to make Ukrainian the single and official language of the
Ukraine. This would violate the rights of Russian speaking citizens and
Polish speaking citizens as well. What if Canada decided to outlaw the
use of French? Or Quebec allowed only French?
North America's lack of concern for Nazi
influences among the Ukraine's leadership is powered by the usefulness
of the Ukraine as a foil for Russia and as an excuse to encircle Russia.
But NATO's tactical use of the Ukraine for its anti-Russian campaign is
mixed with contempt, as suggested by the U.S. / Ukrainian pact to build
a nuclear waste dump, the Central Spent Fuel Storage
Facility, at the site of the Ukraine's Chernobyl.
Reports continue of threats and extreme
anti-Semitism in high places. This is particularly frightening in the
Ukraine which has proven itself historically to be very "hands-on". One
is reminded that in WWII one of four Jews murdered in the Holocaust was
Ukrainian. Most Ukrainian Jews were murdered within the Ukraine instead
of being sent to less personal extermination practices of labour camps
and concentration camps. In the Ukraine the horrific stories from a very
few survivors directly involve the local citizenry and
militias.
The threats to the Jewish population from
those close to power who are either consciously or through the training
of their childhoods immersed in a Nazi ideology, seem primitive,
personal, unchecked, and are increasingly in need of the State's damage
control. Aware of anti-Semitism as an impediment to Euro-American
support the Ukraine has an overtly Jewish Prime Minister who has met
with his Israeli counterpart to improve the Ukraine's defence and
security establishments. The cosmetics are challenged by torchlight
parades and utterances that might be considered surreal in another
country. The Jewish
Chronicle reports that
Vasily Vovk, a retired general in the country's security services has
announced on Facebook (a post since deleted) that Jews aren't Ukrainians
and he intends to destroy them.
As for 'people of colour ' in the Ukraine,
news footage insists there aren't any. Recently a student from Zimbabwe,
a star soccer player, received a fracture in his ankle while playing for
his Ukrainian university team. Despite the lack of an 800 dollar fee for
the operation it was preformed but while recovering, to everyone's
puzzlement he died and the parents paid ten thousand dollars to have his
body returned to Zimbabwe. Since Zimbabwe has no embassy in the Ukraine
the parents remain without any explanation of why their son
died.
A problem with Ukrainian nationalism which
is whetted by anti-Russian interests globally, is that its heroes were
so often complicit in the Third Reich's crimes. Substantial evidence is
presented (Press for Conversion) that Canada's Foreign Minister
Chrystie Freeland has hidden the Ukrainian Nazi collaboration within her
family: the difficulty is in the norms developed through community and
childhood. Is she likely to represent Canada's and sanity's interests in
dealing with a Nuclear Russia increasingly bear-baited by
neo-conservative governments?
Partial sources online: "Chrystia
Freeland Exposed by Sergei Lavrov at Arctic council; Drops 'Canadian
Democracy Destabilization' Charge Against Russia," John Helmer, May 14,
2017, Dances with
Bears; "Ukrainian general calls for destruction of Jews," Sam Sokol,
May 11, 2017, The
Jewish Chronicle; "Canada backs sanctions against foreign officials
in abuse cases," David Ljunggren, May 17, 2017, Reuters; "Liberals
brought Nazi vets to Canada: Glorifying Ukrainian-Canadian Veterans of
OUN/UPA Terrorism," Richard Sanders, Dec. 14, 2016, rabble.ca; "Minister
Freeland's Grandfather, Michael Chomiak, the Nazi's Top Ukrainian
Propagandist..." Richard Sanders, March 22, 2017, Press for Conversion! /
Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade; Ukraine’s Jews walk narrow line
between murderous past and uncertain future," Sue Surkes, May 17,
2017, The Times of
Israel; "Ukraine confident of world-class fuel storage facility," 17
May 2017, WNN | World
Nuclear News; "Ukraine blocks popular social networks as part of
sanctions on Russia," Alec Luhn, May 16, 2017, theguardian; "Joint
Submission to the [UN] Human Rights Council at the 28th Session of the
Universal Periodic Review: Ukraine," European Roma Rights Centre et al, March 30,
2017, European Roma
Rights Centre; "'Sporting hero' dies in ankle op: Zim student in
mystery Ukraine death," Nqobile Tshili, May 15, 2017, The
Chronicle.
First posted May 18, 2017 on nightslantern.ca
at
http://www.nightslantern.ca/tactical-use-of-the-ukraine.htm
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