Pearls and Irritations

Amnesty International has just released a report that drew attention to Ukrainian violations of International Law in its war with Russia. It quickly became a footnote in the propaganda war.

The Amnesty report said “Ukrainian forces have put civilians in harm’s way by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in populated residential areas, including in schools and hospitals, as they repelled the Russian invasion that began in February,’

“We have documented a pattern of Ukrainian forces putting civilians at risk and violating the laws of war when they operate in populated areas,” said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General.

“Being in a defensive position does not exempt the Ukrainian military from respecting international humanitarian law.”

See the Amnesty Report here.

Our Western Media focus  has drawn attention for months to Russian atrocities. But when there was a  more balanced report by Amnesty International our media quickly buried it.  Some media that briefly  mentioned the AI Report led their stories with the Ukrainian/Zelensky rebuttal.

Our White Man’s Media has consistently refused to mention the failure of the Minsk Agreement of 2014/15 which set the context for the outbreak of this terrible war. Or the numerous pledges by the US that NATO would not ‘move one inch eastwards’ toward Russia. Or that Ukraine gave extreme rightwing nationalists eight years to practise warfare on originally defence -less pro-Russian civilians in the Donbas where 14,000 were killed.

Or that a vastly greater number of Yemini people have been killed by the Saudis with the support of the US.

White Christians are much more worthy  than brown Muslims!

Truth really is the first casualty of war. We see it again in the Ukraine. Even our universities join the Zelensky propaganda campaign.