A short six months ago, officials in the United States and Europe were equating the pro-Russian separatists battling the Ukrainian army with drunken fools aimlessly running around the country causing mayhem. The description may not have been diplomatic, but it was an apt metaphor for how the separatists acted and the way they behaved towards civilians who found themselves caught under their wrath. Stories of abuse, extrajudicial killing, and harassment of the local population by the separatist occupying forces were common from human rights monitors and from reporters on the ground. Indeed, by July 2014, the “drunken …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
