More Skeletons in Obama's Closet: Mass Grave in Lugansk, Ukraine Yields Over
200 Bodies - CovertAction Magazine
Russell Bentley
Two trenches, each 200 meters long, filled with human bodies. [Photo
courtesy of Russel Bentley]
A Part of Obamas Legacy that Presumably Wont Be Celebrated in his $482
Million Presidential Library
I recently witnessed the exhumation of human remains from a mass grave that
contains more than 200 bodies. It was a profound and profoundly disturbing
experience. Each body in this grave represents an unnecessary and unjust
death, a murder, and each of these more than 200 murders can never be
forgotten or forgiven.
There is a message that cries out from these bones that must be heard and
understood, and acted upon by all good people in the world. Otherwise,
history will repeat itself, and again, the killers and the killing will
continue, and more mass graves will be filled.
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[Photo courtesy of Russell Bentley]
After seven years of war, a war that continues to this day, these 200 bodies
are being exhumed from a mass grave that the war forced them into back in
the summer of 2014, during the heaviest attacks and siege by the Ukrainian
punishers against the people of Lugansk.
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Valery Bolotov proclaims the Act of Independence of the Lugansk Peoples
Republic, May 12, 2014. [Source: wikipedia.org]
In those terrible days and nights of constant shelling and ever-present
danger, there was no water or electricity, no safe place to process the
bodies, no chance at all for a regular funeral. Only now are conditions and
resources finally available to put these peaceful and innocent civilians,
along with some of their heroic defenders, to rest with a proper burial.
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Monument to dead in mass graves that were established in 2014 when the war
in Eastern Ukraine broke out. [Source: aljazeera.com]
All decent people must ask how mass graves (this is not the only one) came
to be here, in Donbass, on the edge of Europe in the second decade of the
21st century. They must ask exactly who did this and why, not just who
pulled the triggers, but even more importantly, who gave the orders, and
they must demand to see justice done, to respect and understand history, and
to prevent more mass graves from being filled with innocent civilians, not
just here in Lugansk but throughout Europe and the world.
Map of eastern Ukraine
[Source: bbc.com]
The Obama/Biden Maidan Coup and Siege of Lugansk and Surrounding Region
When the Obama administration orchestrated the coup détat against the
democratically elected Viktor Yanukovich government in Kyiv in early 2014,
they used a grisly assortment of secret agents, neo-Nazis, and oligarch
traitors to depose then-President Yanukovich and install a quisling
regimeheaded by Petro Poroshenko and now Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Maidan Square in Kyiv in February 2014 in the midst of the U.S.-backed coup.
[Source: newcoldwar.org]
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Viktor Yanukovich during his inauguration as President of Ukraine, February
25, 2010. [Source: Britannica.com]
The new regimes primary traits are fealty to the U.S., avarice, and a
willingness to terrorize their own civilians while suppressing even the
slightest resistance or even peaceful dissent.
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Protests against Ukrainian army brutality. [Source: newcoldwar.org]
In the summer of 2014, the Ukrainian Army launched a major offensive to
isolate the cities of Eastern Ukraine and seal the border with Russia. The
people of Lugansk and Donetsk had voted in a referendum to secede, as they
regarded the newly imposed Ukrainian government as illegitimate and had
close economic and cultural ties to Russia.
During this attack, the city of Lugansk (pop. 400K) was surrounded and under
siege for several months. Water and electricity were cut, no people or
supplies were allowed in or out, and the city was subjected to constant
shelling by heavy artillery. Hundreds were killed, and the infrastructure
was overwhelmed.
In Ruins of Ukrainian Town, Residents Crave Food, Water and Peace - The New
York Times
Rebel walks through rubble of Lugansk after Ukrainian Army siege backed by
the U.S. [Source: nytimes.com]
War Crimes
The Lugansk city officials were forced to make a mass grave in which more
than 200 people, mostly civilians but also some militia members, were
buried. The victims were killed primarily by the Ukrainian Army including by
shellingsnot by the Russians.
War crimes were also committed in neighboring villages, including some
occupied by right-wing militias that Kyiv had to rely on because many
Ukrainians did not want to join the army to fight their own people.
Members of the Azov Battalion attend a protest against local elections in
separatist-held areas of eastern Ukraine in Kyiv on May 20, 2016.
Fighters with the neo-Nazi Azov Battaliona wing of the Ukrainian Army
fighting in the Donbass that committed war crimes. [Source: rferl.org]
Eventually, the Ukrainian Army offensive in Lugansk failed, the siege was
broken, and the Ukrainian Army was driven back beyond the city and
surrounding regional limits, but they are still within artillery range, and
sporadic, sometimes heavy shelling still continues to this day.
Exhumations
The exhumations are being conducted by an international team of top-level
police investigators, and each body is being treated as forensic evidence in
a war crime and murder case.
According to the Lugansk media center, the first exhumation of a Ukrainian
aggression victim by the working group took place in the village of Sabovka,
Slavyanoserbsk district, on August 11. As of August 31, remains of 40 people
had been retrieved from graves in the Slavyanoserbsk and Pervomaisk
districts. On September 3, the working group reported the exhumation of
another 28 Ukrainian aggression victims from a grave in Pervomaisk on the
Southern bug River. These totals are in addition to the 200 victims in
Lugansk.
Police investigators digging up war victims in Lugansk. [Source:
lug-info.com]
Project Ukraine and Bidens War Responsibility
From the very beginning the man who was in charge of Obamas Project
Ukraineand bears key responsibility for the atrocities therewas none other
than current U.S. President Joe Biden.
The U.S. main motive was to try and pry Ukraine away from Russia and expand
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) there and establish a base for
destabilizing the Putin government in Russia, which has restored Russias
sovereignty from the era of Boris Yeltsin.
Bidens orders to crush the legitimate uprising in Donbass, including by war
crimes and mass murder, gave his Ukrainian Association of Patriots (UKROPa
right wing nationalist party) henchmen no pause, and they scurried to
fulfill their masters orders, just as the Bandera collaborators had done
for their German Nazi masters 70 years before.
Stepan Bandera is hailed as a hero in western Ukraine but regarded as a Nazi
collaborator in the eastern part of the country. Photo: Russia Insider
Ukrainian protesters display image of Stepan Bandera, a Nazi collaborator
during World War II. [Source: ejinsight.com]
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Soldiers of the neo-Nazi supported Azov battalion display the flag of the
Patriots of Ukraine. [Source: wikipedia.org]
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A woman in the suburb of Yubileynoe walks in front of her house, which was
damaged by Ukrainian Army shelling in 2014. The strike caused an internal
wall to buckle, nearly trapping her beneath it, and caused severe structural
damage to the building. [Source: aljazeera.com]
Vice President Biden personally made six trips to Ukraine, half of them in
2014. This was during the heaviest attacks by the Ukrainian armed forces and
the neo-Nazi battalions against the people of Donbass, and Bidens visits
preceded, by only a few days or weeks, the worst crimes of the war.
These crimes include the murder of more than 100 protesters and unarmed
Berkut police by snipers at the Maidan in Kyiv, the mass murder by burning
to death scores of peaceful protesters in Odessa on May 2nd, the airstrike
in Lugansk on June 2nd, and the false-flag attack that murdered 298 innocent
civilians on MH-17 on July 17th.
Lugansk
Bloody scene in downtown Lugansk after a Ukrainian Army missile struck an
administration building. [Source: ronpaulinstitute.org]
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From Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt [U.S. ambassador to UKraine during
the Maidan Square protests] hand-picking the new, unelected Ukrainian
government, to every legal, political, economic, and military decision,
Ukraines quislings jumped every time their U.S. masters said jump.
Nuland's biscuits again: Maidan midwife's plan for US policy on Russia is
dumb, delusional and dangerous RT Op-ed
Victoria Nuland, then Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian
Affairs, with Geoffrey Pyatt, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine looking on,
handing out cookies to demonstrators in Maidan Square. [Source: rt.com]
The orders were clearsuppress the uprising in Donbass by every means, legal
or illegal, and the more brutal and ruthless, the better. And the attacks
were brutal and ruthless, and now, Biden is back again.
As President of the U.S, his administration is expanding military aid to
Ukraine and threatening Russia as the conflict in the Donbass is beginning
to flare up again.
What Goes Around Comes Around
Bidens abandonment of Afghanistan should be a lesson to Ukraine, not just
to the common people, but to the marionettes he put into power there. Just
like the Afghan puppets the U.S. appointed, the Ukrainians too are
absolutely expendable at the slightest indication they are no longer useful.
Work to Be Done Following Biden-Zelensky Summit | Wilson Center
Biden puts out hand to Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelensky during his
visit to Washington in late September. Zelenskywho has advocated for
reigniting the war with Russiamay find himself expendable, just like U.S.
client rulers in Afghanistan and so many other countries. [Source:
wilsoncenter.org]
And just as the fate of Afghanistan should be a lesson for Ukraine, the fate
of Ukraine should be a lesson for the people and countries of the EU. The
blatant hypocrisy and double-dealing self- interest with which the U.S. has
handled Europe is now clear for all to see, as are the fatal consequences
for those who have allowed it.
And all of the above must be a lesson for U.S. and UK citizens as well. What
goes around comes around, and here it comes, now it is your turn. Unless you
stop it. The crimes of empire your rulers have committed against other
people around the world, with nary a word of protest from you, will look and
feel much different when they are happening to you, to your family and to
your friends.
But, if you stand up for yourselves and for Humanity, all good people in the
world will stand with you, and support your courage and effort in every way
they can.
