By Charles Bausman, publisher, Russia Insider, Nov 22, 2014
One of the hardest things about producing Russia Insider website is watching these gut-wrenching videos coming out of the war zone in East Ukraine. There are literally hundreds of them.
We think of ourselves as pretty hard-boiled, but sifting through them looking for news, or even worse, having to watch sections of them over and over again as one edits and captions is sometimes too much. Sometimes without warning, the tears well up as your soul rebels …
Watch this video, even if it hurts. The aftermath of a cluster bomb attack by the Ukraine armed forces on the city of Kirovsk village of Kirov on November 5. After seeing this, no sane person could still believe Kiev is right in attacking East Ukraine.
Western politicians are guilty of this. Obama and Merkel are guilty of this. They are funding, encouraging, and justifying a cynical, homicidal military attack against civilians, whose only sin was to exercise their right to secede from a country they no longer wanted to belong to, a basic right recognized in all democracies.
The attack is being led to a large extent by psychopathic neo-nazi extremists. And the western media is complicit in the crime, by saying its not happening. It’s as simple as that.
Sometimes evil leaps out and rips your face off, right in the middle of civilization. That’s what is going on in East Ukraine.
Charles Bausman is the editor and publisher of Russia Insider. He has worked in finance and investments in Russia since the early 1990s, specializing since 2009 in large-scale investments in agriculture. He worked for the American NBC News in Moscow in the late 1980s. He has an MBA in finance from Columbia University, and a degree in history from Wesleyan University. He speaks Russian and German.
