by GH Eliason for the Saker Blog
On August 11th, 2021, Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) and Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) embarked on a historic endeavor that will become national benchmarks in their existence.
Both countries began opening mass graves on their territories created by non-stop shelling and mortar attacks against their cities and people.
They proposed to locate the victims and identify them through genetic testing. Samples could then be matched with people searching for missing family members as they come forward.
At the same time, forensic teams are finding more evidence that Ukraine will have to address through a legal process in the future.
In Pervomaisk, it was originally thought they would find between forty and sixty of the ninety bodies buried at the site.
Over time, some families that knew exactly where their loved one was buried had come and reburied their loved ones with a proper funeral.
To the LPR and Pervomaisk officials behind the project’s shock, even with people claiming family members over the years, the official body count at this one mass grave site was over 90 victims of Kiev’s war crimes.
This is the first of 13 known mass grave sites in LPR and officials are already getting new leads to possibly even more.
Where is the accountability for the Ukrainian government for these crimes?
Over 700 people killed in their homes, at work, at school, and public spaces by Ukrainian military units.
Ukraine is still provably shelling civilians today.
Ukrainians should be horrified by the continued actions of their government. All it takes for this to be their day to day reality is to disagree with radical political ideas nationalist-activists in their government try to force on them.
After watching their leadership tearing down their own country and making it a joke among the nations for seven years, I doubt they’d argue seriously about this either.
In 2014, when these mass graves were filled, the people that filled them were from Ukraine. It’s time for Ukrainians to realize without radical change, Ukraine has no future.
The video following Marina Filippova’s statement opens up a side of this seldom heard in the west or by post-Maidan Ukraine. The same Public officials thrown into the leadership roles trying to protect their constituents from genocide open up and talk about what they were dealing with when it began in 2014.
On September 14, Advisor to the Head of the Lugansk People’s Republic, Marina Victorovna Filippova, gave the following speech at the State funeral commemorating these victims of Ukraine at the cemetery in Pervomaisk, LPR.
Dear friends, we are gathered here today to give and fulfill the state’s and all our humane duty to record the crimes of the junta, Ukrainian junta that have no statute of limitations for which they should answer those that gave the criminal orders and sent the military to kill civilian residents of Pervomaisk.
And humane because no one should die a meaningless death just because someone wanted them to.
Today, we will send them on their last journey in a Christian way as we must. This is done by people who know the cost of life and who know the value their lives had.
For me personally today, it’s a very significant day because you understand that we not only manage to rebuild houses and bring to life our industries, we find and accompany on the last journey those who must, well, must be buried humanely. What we do today once again confirms that residents of Donbass do not just have a heart, but they are people who understand the value of life and know how to live right in this life.
Those victims that were sacrificed seven years ago, they really are not in vain because each day they remind us all we are to do the right thing every day. We stand up for our independence. We will come to our Victory. We will definitely come and never again let people die, civilians die just because someone makes such unhealthy and stupid political decisions.
Eternal memory to those who died. And to those who fulfill their duty to the end – respect and honor.
As we follow this developing story together, we’ll investigate who did this and try to find answers together. This is a hallmark moment for Leonid Pasichnik’s administration. And one that’s needed by his people.
(Ed: We are experiencing a small problem with the sub-titles but it is only for the first 3 minutes of the video).
Very, very hard to watch, tough stuff to process. Injustice, crimes against humanity, innocents torn to pieces by Ukies.
School zeroed in by mortar fire. Imagine the horror for the children. Each afternoon their school is bombarded by the psychopaths of Ukraine.
This is the documentation of ethnic cleansing, a small form of genocide.
Justice? Probably never.
Gorlovka district has been hit by artillery and snipers every day for 7 years.
This is ethnic cleansing and Genocide, conducted once more by NAZIs in Ukraine.
The 4th Reich headquarter is run from Aachen Germany and financed by the NAZI Gold stolen during WWII, Today, still stashed at the BIS in Switzerland.
However, I believe Justice will be fully served this time.
I also believe justice will be served. This time they won’t be able to flee to Canada.
Marko, You must live in a different Canada…………….”White Hats” from Syria are working as janitors in Canadian schools.
Cheers, M
True in every sense of the chosen words, while in EU we have that quasi highly esteemed prefabricated human rights court which is prosecuting only subjects, who failed to walk the walk of fascist west and do not bother much with those who did the same or even worse crimes in the name of the western game. Happened in Yugoslavia, happened in Kosovo, is happening now in Ukraine and this and similar institutions are all quiet. Even the state medias are quiet. it just happens, that such news do not fit the sugar frame, they are portraying over European Union. Shame on all of you, you worthless pieces of mercenary human excrement.
Reality is stood on its head by the “free democratic West,” all the lies it tells and the pure evil it does, especially when it mass murders children, the aged and the infirm. Humanist diplomats like Vladimir Putin are demonized by Western politicians and the Western media as stone cold “killers” (quoth Joe Biden) and genocidal maniacs in Ukraine are given free rein to emulate Hitler. Time for that comedian in Kiev to stand before some international tribunal for lying to his citizens and the world about wanting “peace” in the bestial hell-hole that is Ukraine. How can he or his followers want peace when they make only war. Actually, they commit acts worse than war because the violence is directed primarily at non-combatants, just like their “allies” the Israelis do against the Palestinians in Palestine. And their mentor, the “exceptional nation,” just smiles smugly and nods approvingly at both of them.
Good day to everyone!
As a gepolotical ignorant of the detalis about the “civil” war between the nazi-fascists of Ukraine and the LPR and UDR “states”, could someone explain why these small two amall republics do not merge? I did not see why they have different commands and fight in a separate way. Of course some individual politic ambition are powerful in these option but fight separately against a bigger nation seems not understandable in a quasi-war state, and form me even more incomprehensibleif they are the same people.
Finally, they have begun that process just recently.
Why they haven’t in the past? Economics. Corruption. Jealousy. Traditional self-interests. Ideological differences. Military commanders who were like warlords with their own small battalions.
I hope the Russians won’t make the same mistake they did as the Soviet Union when they March for Brussels. If they had done the difficult business with the fascists, this world would be a much safer place.
Banderites and their backers are subhuman.
Your enemy has won if you choose to become like him and adopt the very principles against which you are fighting. Russia has no intention of “marching on Brussels,” presumably to conquer Europe, even if Brussels initiates a war against Russia. Russians merely wish to defend themselves against a NATO invasion. Invading and occupying Europe seems counter to everything I perceive President Putin to stand for, and is really not practical. It would escalate to nuclear Armageddon.
“Russians merely wish to defend themselves against a NATO invasion. Invading and occupying Europe seems counter to everything I perceive President Putin to stand for, and is really not practical.”
Really??? And what you tell me now?
Why is the “Video Unavailable”?