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Re: Bucha Massacre

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This thread is full of comments from accounts created within the last month whose only contributions are [flagged] allegations of Ukraine being a Neo-Nazi state.

There are multiple independent reports of the Russian army committing war crimes: https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/04/03/ukraine-apparent-war-cri...

Re: Bucha Massacre

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This thread is full of comments from accounts created within the last month whose only contributions are [flagged] allegations of Ukraine being a Neo-Nazi state. There are multiple independent reports of the Russian army committing war crimes: https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/04/03/ukraine-apparent-war-cri...

I'm old enough to have watched the "Kuwaiti incubator hoax" play out. Having observed a few wars at fairly close range, I'm automatically suspicious of elaborate atrocity stories. That particular story you link actually influences me to be suspicious of the Bucha story. The intent of the article is to portray how bad things are, and the stories it relates are truly awful. But if the Bucha story really represents what is going on, the writers should have found much worse things to report.

Re: Bucha Massacre

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are Ukrainians found tortured, mutilated, raped and killed, not Russians. There is plenty of evidence in the linked article. Please don't do this here.

> Please don't do this here. What makes you think you can give advices on what people should or shouldn't do here? If you don't need proper investigation to figure out who actually did that - it's your choice. But don't try to censor those who think not like you.

You have a long history of coming to the defense of what is now an international pariah that has lied about the purpose of a troop build up, 200,000 strong which has now senselessly displaced millions and murdered thousands more.

Proper investigations will be done and Russia will be brought to justice in front of a court of its peers. Defending this monstrous state with your "concerned" deflections while mothers and children lay raped and dead on the earth of Ukraine is not defensible. Please don't do this here.

Re: Bucha Massacre

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> Professor Michael Clarke, a defence and security expert and a specialist adviser to the House of Commons Defence Committee, has said that the images coming out of Ukraine are clear evidence of war crimes. He told Sky News: "The deliberate targeting of civilians is a war crime in and of itself, every day of the week. So unless somebody can provide a military logic why civilians are targeted, that is a straight war c…

> Professor Michael Clarke, a defence and security expert and a specialist adviser to the House of Commons Defence Committee, has said that the images coming out of Ukraine are clear evidence of war crimes. He told Sky News:

For anyone interested in what Michael Clarke actually said rather than this misrepresentation, it was interesting, video -

https://nitter.net/SkyNews/status/1510868662982479875

Re: Bucha Massacre

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are Ukrainians found tortured, mutilated, raped and killed, not Russians. There is plenty of evidence in the linked article. Please don't do this here.

Though the early information states that there were bodies of "hundreds of Russian soldiers", found when the Ukrainian forces eventually arrived to the area.

I'm not sure what you're getting at. One would expect to find bodies of Russian soldiers wherever the invasion is happening, especially so near Kyiv.

Re: Bucha Massacre

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Even if this turns out not to be the true chain of events, at least this is an attempt to get at the facts rather than venting. I read HN to find comments that try to make a concrete contribution to our knowledge. So, please folks, more.

Comments like that, even though he's just asking legitimate questions, are often downvoted into oblivion very quickly.

Given the amount of lies circulated by Ukraine's and Russian authorities, I'm always wary of accepting anything I read at face value.

Also, Ukraine has an abysmal track record when it comes to investigations (see those into the Maidan sniper killings and the Odessa massacre), so again, I don't see how you can immediately buy into this shit without the least amount of doubt. It seems most people do though and it makes me really sad.

Re: Bucha Massacre

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You attribute too much intellect to the grunt on the ground. Nobody thinks like that after fighting in the war, they might die tomorrow. Who else might have "done it"? Ukrainians themselves? What a very bad joke.

exactly, the only grunts with intellect and smarts are seen here placing a dummy AA system in a residential area so that it will become clear hopefully that the russians are needlessly bombing civilians.

https://twitter.com/gbazov/status/1510773542618550280?s=20

Re: Bucha Massacre

#29

A truly independent investigation is what is needed. And the U.S. hypocrisy statements is not helping Ukraine's case one bit, like Anthony Blinken promising to hold perpetrators accountable. How about cleaning your own house first? Again, an independent investigation is what we must ask for.

No post body was provided.

Re: Bucha Massacre

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But why specifically in Bucha? Is this about Russians being obliged to retreat, and committing atrocities on the way out? Or is this going on in other places Russians still hold, and we only found it about it in Bucha, specifically, because they are out? Can we expect similar revelations in each place they are forced out of?

The world isn't ready to understand what has happened in Mariupol. Like the other commenter said, it will be uncovered once Russian forces retreat, and is ten times the destruction.

I, personally, am very concerned about Mariupol, the Russians there are free to do whatever they want (torture, rape, etc..). As they are there for quite some time already, they also had time to cover up their wrongdoings which is even more concerning.
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