Ukraine: Slovyansk Falls To Fascists, House to House Extrajudicial Executions Reported, Concentration Camps Planned
Right Sector Ukrainian Nazis. They are carrying the flag of Ukrainian Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, whose forces carried out the mass murder of civilians by hand, including children, of Poles, Jews, Czechs, Communists, and other Ukrainians. They murdered 60,000 Poles in the Volhynia region alone. Right Sector Nazi units are currently in combat in South Eastern Ukraine as part of the official Ukrainian National Guard where they are committing mass murder of civilians for the U.S. backed Kiev government.
By Steven Argue, Revolutionary Tendency
[H]atred is deeply entrenched in the Ukraine’s Nazis against Ukraine’s Russian speaking minority who are the majority of the people in South Eastern Ukraine.
Since the suspension of the ceasefire last week, which the government had repeatedly violated with mortar fire, the Ukrainian government began bombing civilian centers from war planes once again. This has killed men women and children. As of June 18th, according to report of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, at least 356 people people had been killed in the latest military operation, including 257 civilians and 14 children. Those numbers have greatly increased since that report.
Slovyansk, formerly held by anti-fascists, has fallen to the Ukrainian government. Reports from Slovyansk residents say the Ukrainian military is going house to house and shooting people in the head who they deem to be supporters of the anti-fascists. Mykhailo Koval, the Ukraine’s acting Minister of Defense, has openly been calling for a “complete filtering” of the population, a known euphemism for concentration camps.
The fate of the people of Slovyansk should be a warning to all combatants. As hard as it is to watch the collective punishment being meted out by the Kiev government, surrender will not bring peace to civilians.
It was due in part to murderous attacks from the Kiev government forces in Mariupol, with troops gunning down unarmed civilians in cold blood, that the people the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk voted overwhelmingly for self determination in May. Those attacks in Mariupol were carried out by Nazis of the Right Sector within the Ukrainian National Guard. That vote established the voter proclaimed People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk which are now under attack by the fascist Kiev government with the backing U.S. military aid.
As the U.S. government sends military aid to the fascist government, the narrative in the west is a complete lie. In fact, last week, a spokes person for the Obama administration and the U.S. State Department, Marie Helf, claimed that the UN reports of 110,000 refugees fleeing the terror of the Ukrainian government could be just people going to Russia to “visit their grandmothers”.
In the narratives of the U.S. imperialists, everything is the fault of Russia. Missing is the fact that the U.S. sponsored the overthrow of the elected government of Ukraine in February. Missing is the fact that the ruling junta of that coup that the U.S. brought to power contains open Nazis in key leadership posts. Missing is the fact that those government ministers are members of a Nazi party that calls for execution, without trial, of Russian speaking intellectuals and the revocation of citizenship for Ukraine’s Russian speaking minority. Missing is the fact that that the Ukrainian government was unable to send out its regular military against the anti-fascist revolution in South Eastern Ukraine because the regular military largely joined the anti-fascist revolt when they were told to attack the people. Missing is the fact that the Ukrainian government then formed the National Guard composed of Nazi paramilitaries to carry out its genocidal war against the people of South Eastern Ukraine. No, none of this matters to parrots of the western corporate media and the U.S. State Department. To them, the antifascist revolt should be put down and everything is Russia’s fault. Reminds me of when southern segregationists blamed race mixing on communists.
-Steven Argue of the Revolutionary Tendency
And more from this author on Ukraine:
Mine Workers Take Up Arms Against The U.S. Backed Fascist Government in Ukraine
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/07/03/18758201.php
Imperialists Out of Ukraine! Stop Supporting Neo-Nazis! (An earlier article before the coup with in-depth analysis)
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/01/26/18749806.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/05/25/18756278.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/05/12/18755695.php
U.S. / EU Backed Kiev Junta Waging War Against Civilian Population
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/220402/index.php
Fake “Feminists” of Femen Participated in the Odessa Massacre
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/05/19/18755970.php
And also check out some older articles with in depth analysis:
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/219851/index.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/18/18754387.php
Ukrainian Military Joins Revolt, Troops Vow to Defend Protesters
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/220189/index.php
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/219919/index.php
Ukraine Holocaust Memorial Canceled Out Of Fear U.S. Backed Anti-Semites
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/01/29/18749979.php
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/220100/index.php
Belarus: President Lukashenko Vows to Prevent a Coup Similar to Ukraine
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/219864/index.php