Ukraine Fires Own Human Rights Chief For Perpetuating Russian Troop 'Systematic Rape' Stories - ZeroHedge.com
Hilarity ensues as Amber Heard-Ukraine loses all credibility with fake stories trying to smear Johnny Deep-Russia. You've been warned!-bah
by Tyler Durden
Wednesday, Jun 01, 2022 - 03:13 AM
For over the past two months, an avalanche of stories have hit Western mainstream press which purported to document instances of mass rape carried out by Russian troops against Ukrainian civilians. One particular story in Time took off, driving outrage and condemnation by Western officials and receiving repeat coverage on CNN and other major US networks.
It alleged "a systemic, coordinated campaign of sexual violence" - relying chiefly on testimony gathered by Ukraine's appointed top human rights representative. It included a particularly shocking story of 25 teenage girls being gang-raped by Russian troops - nine of which became pregnant. According to the report:
Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman, Lyudmyla Denisova said that 25 teenage girls were kept in a basement in Bucha and gang-raped; nine of them are now pregnant. Elderly women spoke on camera about being raped by Russian soldiers. The bodies of children were found naked with their hands tied behind their backs, their genitals mutilated. Those victims included both girls and boys...
Ukrainians are speaking up about rape as a war crime to ensure the world holds Russia accountablehttps://t.co/tEilTSgmbS
— TIME (@TIME) April 24, 2022
As has been the pattern in prior wars, whether in Syria or Libya, the media claims got more and more sensational and over-the-top as the conflict intensified, and as Western powers became more deeply involved, yet with no concrete or definitive proof.
But one consistent detail in the majority of the stories is that the aforementioned Ukraine human rights ombudsman, Lyudmyla Denisova, is often the central figure feeding Western correspondents the shocking rape stories.
For example, she's featured in this April Newsweek piece:
Lyudmila Denisova, the Ukrainian Parliament's Commissioner for Human Rights, alleged on Friday that Russian soldiers have raped children during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
In a Facebook post, Denisova alleged that an 11-year-old boy was raped by Russians in front of his mother who was tied to a chair and forced to watch as it happened in the Ukrainian city of Bucha.
Lyudmyla Denisova, Ukrainian government image
Many such stories which presented ever-more horrifying details as the war progressed quickly went viral, particularly among pro-Ukraine activists on Twitter and other social media, to the point where prominent pundits would begin casually agreeing amongst themself that Russians simply are "animals".
And below is another example among many, which tended to be based on "reports say" for many of the most central, damning claims...
But recently, within the last couple of weeks, as investigators began to dig deeper into the allegations, it seems the media stories started to dry up. The geopolitical analysis blog Moon of Alabama details what happened in the following:
However, a bunch of eager NGOs in Ukraine, hoping for fresh 'western' money for new 'rape consultation and recovery' projects, tried to find real rape cases. They were disappointed when they found that there was no evidence that any rape had taken place
(machine translation):
- On May 25, a number of media outlets and NGOs published an open appeal to Lyudmila Denisova calling for improved communication on sexual crimes during the war.*
The signatories insist that Denisova should disclose only information about which there is sufficient evidence, avoid sensationalism and excessive detail in their reports, use correct terminology and take care of the confidentiality and safety of victims.
"Sexual crimes during the war are family tragedies, a difficult traumatic topic, not a topic for publications in the spirit of the 'scandalous chronicle.' We need to keep in mind the goal: to draw attention to the facts of crimes," the appeal reads.
An entire global activist movement even sprang up which focused on highlighting Russian sexual crimes in Ukraine, based on the premise that Russia's military is using "rape as a tool" as part of its arsenal to spread a campaign of terror...
Th woman also shouted 'Don't rape us!' as the security encircled her quickly to take her off the red carpet. The incident again brought to light the Ukraine crisis at #Cannes.https://t.co/Ghs9UCKC7q
— WION (@WIONews) May 21, 2022
And now on Tuesday, Interfax, Politico, The Wall Street Journal, and others are reporting that Lyudmyla Denisova has been fired - precisely for floating and perpetuating fantastical claims of mass rape but without providing evidence...
Ukraine's parliament just fired human rights ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova. MPs claimed her work focusing on the rape of Ukrainians by Russian troops which "couldn't be confirmed with evidence [...] only harmed Ukraine and distracted the global media from Ukraine's real needs."
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) May 31, 2022
"Ukrainian lawmakers dismissed the country’s ombudsman for human rights, Lyudmyla Denisova, in a no-confidence vote on Tuesday, concluding that she had failed to fulfill obligations including the facilitation of humanitarian corridors and countering the deportation of Ukrainians from occupied territory," The Wall Street Journal reported late in the day.
"Lawmaker Pavlo Frolov said Ms. Denisova was also accused of making insensitive and unverifiable statements about alleged Russian sex crimes and spending too much time in Western Europe during the invasion," the report added.
Frolov said in a Facebook post announcing her dismissal as the country's top human rights investigator:
"The unclear focus of the Ombudsman's media work on the numerous details of ‘sexual crimes committed in an unnatural way’ and ‘rape of children’ in the occupied territories that could not be confirmed by evidence, only harmed Ukraine."
Such accusations of mass rape by the enemy de jour are made in every war (Libya, Syria) . They rarely turn out to be true.https://t.co/bF0NVhQiFl https://t.co/i4rE2LMZMV
— Moon of Alabama (@MoonofA) April 21, 2022
Needless to say this is an absolutely devastating blow to Ukraine's 'information war' which has been in full force since the Russian invasion (as naturally in war each side will enter into propaganda campaigns against the other simultaneous to the actual ground war, and while seeking to sway world opinion).
Angry pushback has started already within hours after the news of Denisova's removal was confirmed, including from UN accounts and US media pundits...
Dismissal of Ombudsperson Denisova is contrary to int standards, undermines independence of important human rights institution in #Ukraine. We call on authorities to take steps to ensure independence of Ombudsperson & abide by int standards in law&practice https://t.co/C3689VYRih
— UNHumanRightsUkraine (@UNHumanRightsUA) May 31, 2022
That Ukraine's parliament took the drastic step of dismissing her in such a public manner also speaks volumes - strongly suggesting that Ukrainian officials themselves don't believe the bulk of the 'systematic rape' claims.
Ukrainians are waking up to the damage these Sick individuals are causing for them, and mostly doing it from outside of UA, since as independent observers are alerted and upon inquiry into these disturbing stories and efforts at documenting evidence for these claims they are only meet with empty hands and shrugging sholders in turn exposing the entire scam, and thus the criticism of Russia, as Ukrainians are so despicable that they are willing to paint the Russians as Orcs, the same orcs who despite a 2 to 1 disadvantage as far as troops go, have maintained a constant disciplined advance and have again and again tactically out maneuvered the superior defensive force, forced it to fight on the defensive, out flanked and or encircled and we have seen again and again their commendable treatment by the Russians of the Ukrainian troops who either surrender, flee, and were caught, wounded, or the destroyed.
If they were orcs, then how can they maintain this tactical discipline in an offensive fight, and to then do it against a force outnumbering them when they simply could carpet bomb or level entire cities, you know, real orc behavior, like mass rape, and never worry about picking up any Ukrop Soldiers.
Meanwhile, the real orcs let the enemy soldiers "get ate by dogs", dogs they try and claim the Russians eat, as their own troops are degraded to one potato a day, their citizens proudly cannibalize their own, thinking that its a Russian, and have been not "reported by" but actually testified by the witnesses of such events as mass murder of civilians, rape, torture, even children, testified to what Ukrop did to them.
Here's just some speaks for itself videos of Ukraine:
The Conduct Of Nazis In Kiev
More Women Tortured in Ukraine - Amused Volkssturm Laughs
Ukrainian Court Of Justice - How Women Are Treated In Kiev By AFU
More 'Freedom and Democracy' in Ukraine
When Will Civilian Torture By Ukrainians End?
When Will Civilian Torture Stop in Ukraine?
Ukrainian Creeps Laugh While Again Torturing Civilians
And The Weirdness Continues In Ukraine
Ukrainians Continue Their Bizarre Tortures of Civilians
Old Man Punished For Being Hungry - Stole A Coffee and Sausage in Ukraine
Civilian Torture In Odessa
More Barbaric Medieval Civilian Abuse In Ukraine
More Normal Scenes In Medieval Kiev
More Ukraine Civilian Barbarity
Ukrainians Teaching New Generation How To Abuse Civilians
Nazi Thugs Doing Drivebys For Fun
AFU Soldiers Act As Bandits, Terrorizing Civilians On The Roads
AFU Brutalizes Own Civilians - Only Video To EVER Get Blocked On My Channel (Why?)
Out of hundreds, maybe thousands, of videos, this is the only one ever blocked on my channel. Do not block this video for spreading the truth about the Nazi crimes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and its Nazi Regime financed by the U.S.A. and NATO.
(VERY DISTURBING AND GRAPHIC SOLDIERS RUNNING KICKING OF CIVILIANS IN THE FACE)
What follows is a post from a thread I've been following for a while, that illustrates Russia vs Ukraine in regards to Nazis..
Corax said:
Perhaps you didn't read my post....I know there are neo-Nazis in Russia, as there are in Ukraine. Like I've said before, this is a Slavic civil war between one bunch of Slavic neo-Nazis, and another bunch.
The Ukrainian regime itself has neo-Nazi leanings and Nazi sympathizers in its midst, the Russian government does not. In fact, it is part of NATO and zionist propaganda to try to suggest there is no difference between the two states in this regard. But this is a fallacy, and quite a preposterous one at that.
In 2016, the city of Kiev renamed a major avenue to honor Stepan Bandera, local WW2 collaborator of Nazi Germany:
Kiev renames major street to honor Russian Nazi collaborator
Stepan Bandera’s nationalist group urged Ukranians to ‘destroy’ Jews and Poles in the 1940s
By Agencies and TOI staff
7 July 2016, 10:03 pm
https://www.timesofisrael.com/kiev-renames-major-street-to-honor-russian-nazi-collaborator/
According to some, the above information represents "Kremlin propaganda". I wasn't aware that the "Times of Israel" is a mouthpiece for the Russian presidency, nor that "Google Earth" is controlled by the latter.
Now, could you point me to an equivalent to this anywhere in Russia? This is as if the city of Moscow named a street in the center of Moscow after Bronislav Kaminski - simply unthinkable.
Here you can see members of the Kiev City Council - who are not members to any neo-Nazi group, chant "Bandera is out father":
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1500477006030733315
- i/web
This too was considered "Kremlin propaganda". And yet it's factual. And again, nothing like this would be even remotely possible at the Moscow municipality.
The Ukrainian ambassador to Germany of all places, Andrei Melnik, declared having laid a bouquet of flowers at the grave of Stepan Bandera (located in Germany), whom he referred to as "our hero". Any Russian diplomat on the record for praising a Nazi collaborator? Negative.
https://detv.us/2022/03/16/stop-demonizing-the-azov-regiment-rt-en/
Below that, the user linked a tweet by Melnyk from 2015. In it, Melnyk referred to a visit to the grave of Ukrainian fascist and anti-Semite Stephan Bandera, whom he honored with a bouquet of flowers. Melnyk wrote at the time:
“At the beginning of my visit to Munich, I met representatives of the UKR and laid flowers at the grave of our hero Stepan Bandera.”
Furthermore, the Great Patriotic War as the Soviet defense against national-socialist Germany during WW2 is referred to in Russia, is upheld in the collective memory of the Russian people by authorities in Moscow. Along with the original anti-fascist ideology coined by Josef Stalin, it occupies a central place in the formulation of modern Russian national identity, and forms a centerpiece of Russian political culture.
Some academic publications on the topic:
C. McDaniel, Russia’s Proud Past and Patriotic Identity: A Case Study of Historical Accounts in Contemporary Russian History Textbooks. Modern Languages Open, 2018, (1) 26, pp. 1–33.
https://www.modernlanguagesopen.org/articles/10.3828/mlo.v0i0.239/galley/303/download/
Vera Tolz, Forging the Nation: National Identity and Nation Building in Post-Communist Russia, Europe-Asia Studies, 1998, Vol. 50, No. 6, pp. 993-1022. https://www.jstor.org/stable/154053
E.A. Wood, Performing memory: Vladimir Putin and the celebration of World War II in Russia, Soviet and Post Soviet Review, 2011, 38 (2), pp. 172-200.
Google Scholar
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S. Bernstein, Remembering War, Remaining Soviet: Digital Commemoration of World War II in Putin’s Russia, Memory Studies, 2016, 9 (4), pp. 422-436.
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E.F. Krinko, Modern Russian Historiography of the Great Patriotic War: Results of the Couple of Decades, Old times, 2008, 4 (14), pp. 6-21.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_...mes&volume=4&pages=6-21&publication_year=2009
Which is why 8 May is a major holiday in Russia, and why a military parade commemorating the USSR's victory over Nazism is held every year in Moscow. The entire event is held under the banner of the commemoration of the anti-fascist resistance during WW2:
WW2 veterans who fought at the frontlinesagainst Nazism have systematically been seated in the first rows at the parade:
The pervasiveness of this firm anti-fascist legacy was seen reflected in the Soviet flags flown by the Russian armed forces during their current military operation in Ukraine:
The flags were also raised by Russian-speakers of eastern Ukraine and Crimea at various gatherings:
By contrast, not only is there no state sponsorship for the remembrance of WW2 victory over Nazism in present day Ukraine, but opposite narratives focusing on anti-communism and favoring local Nazi collaborators such as Bandera, happen to be dominant in Ukrainian society.
In conclusion, there can be no comparison between Russia and Ukraine when it comes to Nazism and Nazi ideology.
By SalarHaqq from defense.pk, links included
In other news.. Azov retired its Nazi Wolf's Hook and Black Sun Nazi symbols. No worries, they clarified that their ideology hasn't changed.
https://dailystormer.cn/ukrainian-calls-for-cutting-off-the-heads-of-children-in-the-donbass/
Google Stanley Tany.