Papers reveal Yanukovich plans to turn army against protesters
Source: Financial Times
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The Yanukovich regime had drawn up plans for a massive crackdown on protesters in Kiev using thousands of police and troops and the chief of Ukraines armed forces on Thursday last week ordered 2,500 army troops into the capital for an antiterrorist operation.
But the most chilling were military and security papers. One set revealed that snipers who killed dozens of protesters on Kievs central square last Thursday came from Ukraines Omega special forces.
The incendiary documents could bolster efforts by Kievs acting government to build a criminal case against Mr Yanukovich, whose whereabouts were still unknown on Monday, for mass murder of peaceful civilians
The documents illuminate a key moment in the stand-off late last week, when rumours swept Kiev that Mr Yanukovich was poised to unleash the military against his own people to preserve his increasingly tenuous rule.
A cable signed by Yuri Ilyin, chief of staff, on Thursday last week ordered three army units from southern and southeastern Ukraine to move into Kiev, based on information from Ukraines SBU security services that protesters were planning to capture potentially dangerous military facilities.
It said troops would receive further information in the capital about where they would be deployed. But the order said armed troops would set up checkpoints and have powers to inspect documents and detain those not carrying them, search clothing for weapons, limit traffic and enter private homes if they suspected terrorists were being concealed.
They would be authorised to use weapons and other resources
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1000words
(7,051 posts)Or do you look through the psych evaluations and find the psychopaths?
Warpy
(111,339 posts)and they will obey.
It's always been like this.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)You kill your own people then you go on trial for murder and face the gallows. How short sighted of those dimwits. They would've been better off ignoring their orders.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Would it be snarky to say "by getting them used to spraying pepper spray into sit-down protesters, then clubbing them, then moving up to firing rubber bullets, bean bags, then tear gas canisters first?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)their thug enforcers will be
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Same way you get 25 5-year-olds to pay attention for 15 to 20 minutes in a classroom.
Same way you get uninformed voters to vote against their own interests.
Same way you get soldiers to kill and maim for huge corporations and cheap commodities.
You make people feel that it is them as a group against something else, the blackboard, the other children in the class, the competition, the evil empire, whatever.
You tell them how great they are, give them stars -- on their first attempts at writing, reading and arithmetic or for their bravery in battle.
You threaten them and then shame them by sending them to the principal's office or court-martialing them or just firing them.
As an example. Chelsea Manning is a good example of the use of peer pressure and negative reinforcement. Sending Chelsea Manning to prison for most of the rest of his youthful years if not more negatively reinforces other soldiers.
It is a deterrent against soldiers breaking secrecy agreements and rules. Negative reinforcement. In fact, deterrence of other similar crimes is one of the reasons our culture isolates criminals in prison. Sets and example and serves as a threat to other wanna' be criminals.
Brother Buzz
(36,463 posts)For some, it's family trade. Others are patriots, eager to serve. Next you have those who just need a job. Than there's the kind who want the legal means of killing other people. - Jack Reacher
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)Same reason some defend authoritarian regimes.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)this one does not go to the article directly. ( at least for me)
ETA: got to it by using google news then to: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f7ad71be-9d75-11e3-a599-00144feab7de.html#axzz2uHReE4hD
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)Yanukovich has done in the last couple of years.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)means more spam in the inbox
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)I've blanked looking for one.
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts).