These are the fields where farmers make their living and produce the grain needed for bread. One of my neighbors hit a mine trying to harvest his wheat. It destroyed his tractor and he was lucky to be thrown clear. He woke to see his tractor burning. In early summer another neighbor on his tractor was used for sniper practice. The Ukrainian army burnt grain and corn fields that were under their control. This continued throughout most of the summer as noted across many articles.
The scorched earth policy was geared at creating the current situation which will soon be mass starvation and the sicknesses associated with it. Tens of thousands of acres could not be harvested. To make the point a few short weeks ago the Kiev appointed Governor in the occupied Lugansk region stated bluntly that Kiev's humanitarian blockade of Lugansk and Donetsk was intended to reproduce the effects of the Soviet Union's 1932-33 famine in which millions across central and southeast Ukraine perished from starvation and sickness.
Camps
When the refugee problem started to get international attention in mid-summer, president Poroshenko made a big deal about how Donbass refugees would be welcomed by the Ukrainians and how much money was set aside for them. It is Kiev of course, and the money was stolen just like the donations for the families of Kiev's heavenly hundred.
The refugees were set up in summer camps without utilities and for the most part no humanitarian aid. What humanitarian aid isn't stolen goes to the soldiers. The men that ran from the war found themselves conscripted and sent back. The families sent to the summer camps are still sitting there in December with no heat. Many will perish from exposure.
Refugees who thought they were fortunate enough to make it to Kiev or other nationalist cities are denied jobs and benefits because they are from Donbass. They ran from the referendum, thought they were good Ukrainians, and yet are still Moskal. Kiev's new laws take the children from their mothers so they can be raised in orphanages and become good Ukrainian nationalists.
Genocide by Conscription
When Kiev's ATO started they were sure that the nationalists from Maidan and people that became the core punisher groups would quickly pacify Donbass based on enthusiasm. It took a while for them to realize the skills they learned at Maidan and the Odessa Trade Union Building weren't combat.
The
nazi's only succeeded in developing a taste for murder. In both well
published cases as well as the rampant
murder in smaller cities the victims were not combatants. They
could not and did not fight back. At Maidan, the Berkut were unarmed
and ordered to stand and take the punishment. The
footage after the initial and controversial beginning says it all.
After
this Kiev's deployment policy for the ATO regions changed
dramatically. Conscripts were questioned on their nationalist
leanings and deployed according to their answers. People from cities
like Odessa which suffered under mass murder in the spring and stood
against nationalism were threatened, jailed, and sent into the ATO.
People that expressed Ukrainian nationalist leanings were sent in behind them or to areas where there was no conflict. This tactic was developed in the 1930's by Stepan Bandera to make both his enemies and people that may eventually rise against Ukrainian nationalism fight and kill each other. This is happening today to the refugee conscripts from Donbass. It is the case today when a conscript is from the wrong city or gives the wrong answer when they enlist or get drafted.
The tactic is the same one used in WW2. The Ukrainian nationalists stood behind conscripts during WWII and killed them when they refused to fight. The same is the case today: families are threatened so conscripts won't refuse to fight.
The battle is truly brother to brother, cousin to cousin, with few ways out for the conscripts. The nationalist groups get medals and positions for combat they never participate in. Kiev, Ukraine rewards are for the torture, murder, and sodomy they committed against civilians and conscripts.
What The World Won't Allow
The filtration or concentration camps at this point sit idle and more are under construction. The reason is Kiev forces don't control enough of Donbass to make using them worthwhile. The world sits by, cheering and jeering at Kiev's inept and thwarted attempts at mass genocide. Having large scale bloody executions of normal people in anything called "a camp" broadcast worldwide would quickly dampen the enthusiasm in Europe and the US.
History has taught the nationalists what the world hasn't learned. They know the world won't stand by and allow the bloody or mass execution of millions without eventually demanding a price from someone. While the civilized nations allow it to happen, the cost will be like the Nuremberg trials when the outrage that could have stopped it is belatedly expressed and acceptable.
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