Vladimir Golstein: Many components of the Rwanda tragedy are in place in Ukraine today, and one wonders if we havent reached the point of no return. The removal from power of the legitimate if corrupt president who at least tried to keep the uneasy coalition of East and West of the country together, the ascent to power of an ultra-nationalistic government obsessed with rewriting history to fit its skewed vision of victimhood, its dehumanizing rhetoric, its violence against civilians, the impotence of the UN, European governments looking the other way - all find easy parallels with Rwanda. Furthermore, nothing suggests that the Kiev government is capable of confronting the impending human disaster. The specter of ultra-nationalism, lawlessness, and violence haunts Ukraine and there are hardly any attempts to exorcise it. As in Rwanda, the civil war, a mind-boggling anti-Russian campaign, thousands of civilian victims and more than half a million refugees only fuel the flames.
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 22:27:38 +0000
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