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  • Did Russian state media just publish a Putin genocide manifesto?

    Did Russian state media just publish a Putin genocide manifesto?

    AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko

    Ed Morrissey | HotAir

    Suuurrrre looks that way. RIA Novosti, a state-owned Russian domestic media outlet, published a lengthy essay today about Russia’s attempts to “de-Nazify” Ukraine. Analyst Sergej Sumlenny first alerted Twitter users to this eye-popping essay:

    https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1510910740261134338?s=20&t=PbnukMLJybms74k-qpoW2g

    When Vladimir Putin announced that as his chief war aim in invading, the argument was that the government in Kyiv had been taken over by a Nazi clique and that the people needed and would welcome liberation. Now the people are the problem, RIA Novosti declares, lumping them all together as Nazis (translation via Google):

    The Nazis who took up arms should be destroyed to the maximum on the battlefield. No significant distinction should be made between the APU and the so-called national battalions, as well as the territorial defense that joined these two types of military formations. All of them are equally involved in extreme cruelty against the civilian population, equally guilty of the genocide of the Russian people, do not comply with the laws and customs of war. War criminals and active Nazis should be exemplarily and exponentially punished. There must be a total lustration [purification — Ed]. Any organizations that have associated themselves with the practice of Nazism have been liquidated and banned.

    It’s no longer the Azov battalion to which Russia objects, but all forms of national defense. That essentially rejects any recognition of the Geneva conventions of warfare. But it gets even worse when it comes to non-combatants:

    However, in addition to the top, a significant part of the masses, which are passive Nazis, accomplices of Nazism, are also guilty. They supported and indulged Nazi power. The just punishment of this part of the population is possible only as bearing the inevitable hardships of a just war against the Nazi system, carried out with the utmost care and discretion in relation to civilians. Further denazification of this mass of the population consists in re-education, which is achieved by ideological repression (suppression) of Nazi attitudes and strict censorship: not only in the political sphere, but also necessarily in the sphere of culture and education. It was through culture and education that a deep mass nazification of the population was prepared and carried out, secured by the promise of dividends from the victory of the Nazi regime overRussia , Nazi propaganda, internal violence and terror, as well as an eight-year war with the people of Donbass who rebelled against Ukrainian Nazism. …

    Denazification will inevitably also be a de-Ukrainization – a rejection of the large-scale artificial inflation of the ethnic component of self-identification of the population of the territories of historical Little Russia and New Russia, begun by the Soviet authorities. Being an instrument of the communist superpower, after its fall, artificial ethnocentrism did not remain ownerless. In this official capacity, he passed under the authority of another superpower (the power standing over the states) — the superpower of the West. It must be returned to its natural boundaries and deprived of political functionality.

    That’s a recipe for complete obliteration of the Ukrainian people. Oddly, it also serves as a rebuttal to earlier Russian claims that Ukrainians were being held hostage by a tiny clique of Nazis and that Putin had a duty to come to the defense of fellow Slavs. RIA Novosti now acknowledges that the Volodymyr Zelensky government is legitimate — elected by the Ukrainian people of their own will. That’s in fact the new basis for this genocide manifesto — not just some need to excise the ruling class to restore order in their neighboring republic.

    That would certainly explain all of the war crimes now being exposed by Putin’s withdrawals. Indeed, this essay acts as a defense of those crimes.

    How long will this genocide take? “[I]n no way less than one generation,” the essay declares:

    Denazification can only be carried out by the winner, which implies (1) his absolute control over the denazification process and (2) the power to ensure such control. In this respect, a denazified country cannot be sovereign. The denazifying state – Russia – cannot proceed from a liberal approach with regard to denazification. The ideology of the denazifier cannot be disputed by the guilty party subjected to denazification. Russia’s recognition of the need to denazify Ukraine means the recognition of the impossibility of the Crimean scenario for Ukraine as a whole. However, this scenario was impossible in 2014 and in the rebellious Donbass. Only eight years of resistance to Nazi violence and terror led to internal cohesion and a conscious unambiguous mass refusal to maintain any unity and connection with Ukraine,

    The terms of denazification can in no way be less than one generation, which must be born, grow up and reach maturity under the conditions of denazification. The nazification of Ukraine continued for more than 30 years, beginning at least in 1989, when Ukrainian nationalism received legal and legitimate forms of political expression and led the movement for “independence” towards Nazism.

    That spells a return to Sovietification, to coin a countering term, along the lines we saw in eastern Europe for more than forty years. And for that matter in Ukraine for much longer, which also experienced a major genocide along the way (the Holodomor). How well did that succeed? It didn’t; it made the former Soviet-occupied countries more eager to unite with the West and to distance themselves from Moscow despite two generations of Kremlin “denazification.”

    At the very least, though, this represents a very clear change in Russia’s public aims about the war, domestically as well as internationally. This manifesto from RIA Novosti leaves Putin no wiggle room on declaring victory by simply firming up positions in Luhansk and Donetsk. It raises the stakes impossibly high, not just for Putin but for Russians altogether. It’s a call for greater mobilization in a war that has already chewed up a large portion of Putin’s effective military forces. How many more sons will Russians sacrifice on the pyre of Putin’s dreams of empire?

    And just how much longer will Russians — oligarchs and the rank and file — blithely go along with the genocide of fellow Slavs next door?

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  • Kamloops residential school… ‘genocide’ in Canada

    Kamloops residential school… ‘genocide’ in Canada

    Kamloops residential school has woken up world to ‘genocide’ in Canada, Bellegarde says

    Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde on June 18, 2021, in Ottawa.
    DAVE CHAN/THE GLOBE AND MAI

    The detection of remains of children at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia has woken up both the country and the world to genocide in Canada, says Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde.

    Mr. Bellegarde, who will be leaving his role on July 6 ahead of the election of the next national chief, said in an interview with The Globe and Mail that residential schools, which involved the removal of Indigenous children from their families, language and culture, meet the definition of genocide outlined in the Genocide Convention, including inflicting harm, forcibly removing children and death.

    It is a human-rights violation of the highest degree that children who attended the institutions were buried and forgotten, he said.

    “This is a validation of what survivors of residential schools have been saying,” he said. “It has woken up the country; it has woken up the world to that genocide. And Canadians are demanding justice and reconciliation.”

    The Kamloops residential school’s unmarked graves: What we know about the children’s remains, and Canada’s reaction so far

    “It’s unfathomable:” Canada’s lost residential school children

    At the end of May, Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Kukpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir said a preliminary search using ground-penetrating radar discovered the remains of 215 children at the former Kamloops residential school. The announcement immediately touched off commemorations across Canada and demands for provincial governments and Ottawa to take greater action, including to help communities search the grounds of former schools.

    Embracing the truth, as difficult as it is, has to happen, Mr. Bellegarde said. Canadians are demanding from their leaders at the federal and provincial levels that “this has got to be dealt with,” he added.

    He said there were more than 130 residential schools that operated in Canada, with Kamloops being just one of them. The next step is to ensure that proper research and investigation of former schools can be done in a respectful way, he said, noting work will need to be led by leadership in First Nations, along with elders, community members.

    “This is sacred work. This is spiritual work. It has be done properly.”

    It is incumbent upon governments to ensure there are proper human and financial resources when requested, Mr. Bellegarde said, to ensure that calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission are fully implemented with respect to missing children and burial information. The TRC spent six years examining the legacy of Canada’s residential schools.

    Mr. Bellegarde said there needs to be investigation, remembrance and commemoration of all sites where “these deaths happened to these little ones.”

    Last week, after the Kamloops announcement, Ontario said it would spend $10-million over three years to identify, investigate and commemorate residential-school burial sites across the province.

    The federal government has said it will send $27-million to communities on an urgent basis to help Indigenous peoples research missing children, hire archeological search companies and commemorate the dead. Mr. Bellegarde said this amount will not be enough to do what is required but said it is a commitment that can be built upon.

    The Catholic Church and any institution involved with the administration of the schools that has records should open up those records as well, Mr. Bellegarde added.

    “People need to know: Who are these little ones? Who are these children? Where did they come from? How did they die?”

    Former TRC chair Murray Sinclair told The Globe the federal government needs to pay for investigators to find out what happened to Indigenous children who died or went missing from the schools, to determine if “cover-ups” took place. He said experienced investigators would need the power to subpoena records from governments and the churches that ran the schools, and have access to the locations.

    Mr. Bellegarde said survivors told the TRC, for example, about young girls who were impregnated by priests, and there are questions about what happened to the babies.

    “There has to be adequate human and financial resources put aside so this proper research and investigation can happen,” he said, adding there are “215 spirits waking up everybody toward truth and reconciliation and accountability and restitution.”

    “They were forgotten,” he said. “They just said, ‘Hey, we’re here.’ ”

    Mr. Bellegarde, who was first elected to his role in late 2014 and again in 2018, is also reflecting now on the past seven years he spent as national chief of the AFN, an advocacy organization representing more than 900,000 First Nations people in 634 communities across the country.

    In December, the 58-year-old announced he would not be seeking re-election in July and that he would instead spend the remainder of his term on advocacy. He insists that he does not know what is next for his career and that he will be taking time to rest and reset.

    During his tenure as national chief, Mr. Bellegarde, from Little Black Bear First Nation in Saskatchewan, emphasized the need to educate Canadians and governments so that they can understand the need to close the divide between First Nations and non-First Nations people on issues including housing, water, infrastructure, access to broadband and proper health and education.

    He said while there has been progress, this does not mean parity.

    “We’ve definitely moved the yardsticks,” he said. “But we need to maintain momentum and we need Canadians to get it – that this momentum must be maintained.”
    By Kristy Kirkup – June 20, 2021 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-kamloops-residential-school-has-woken-up-world-to-genocide-in-canada/

    Note: Kevin Annett is a Canadian writer and former minister of the United Church of Canada.  He has authored books about Indigenous people in Canada, exposing a history of abuse and atrocities among Indigenous children in the church’s residential schools. 

    Comment: As a Canadian, you can be assured that all who swear their allegiance to the Crown (not to Canada) they will be complicit in the cover-up at some level; even turning a blind eye. Who swears allegiance to the Crown? (politicians, lawyers, senators, doctors, judges, military, some media, Attorney General, new immigrants).

    We can’t change history – but, we can acknowledge the truth; rather than perpetuating more lies.

  • Pompeo’s Parting Shot

    Pompeo’s Parting Shot

    Outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hasn’t been shy about calling out other nations for misbehavior. His last day in office is no different.

    Today he issued an official statement declaring the ChiComs are committing genocide and crimes against humanity in the Xinjiang region.

    https://twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1351580136353705984?s=19

    The Uighurs, a muslim turkic people, have been systematically persecuted by the Chinese government for decades. In recent months, images and video have surfaced showing internment and re-education camps in the Xinjiang region. There are also reports of mass sterilization of Uighur women and of children being taken from Uighur parents to be placed in orphanages or with childless Chinese couples far from Xinjiang.

    This move is overdue as far as I’m concerned. The CCP did the same thing to the Tibetans after they invaded and conquered that country. The ChiComs have a long history of repressing non-chinese in the territories they control.

    This move also puts the Biden team in a tough spot. Joe is tied to China via his crack addict son Hunter. Allegedly. These types of designation are hard to undo, and restrict the incoming administration’s options when dealing with China.