Antiwar Protests Spreading in Ukraine

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Excellent read on the "Anti-War" movement building in Ukraine - Links to more information than you will find in the western press. There is significant anti-war momentum occurring there.

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Antiwar Protests Spreading in Ukraine as Government Wages All-Out War in the Southeast
and NATO Threatens Russia

TruthOut
Friday, 01 August 2014 11:24 By Roger Annis

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/25322-antiwar-protests-spreading-in-ukraine-as-government-wages-all-out-war-in-the-southeast-and-nato-threatens-russia

A rising wave of antiwar and anti-conscription protest is taking place in cities and towns across western Ukraine. The protests are prompted by the announcement of Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko ten days ago that a "third" military mobilization is now required for the war that his governing regime began waging against the population of eastern Ukraine three months ago. Kyiv calls the war an "anti-terrorist operation."

The protests are paralleled by a rise in Ukraine army desertions and refusals of men and women to heed conscription orders.

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Video of Ukrainians burning Military Draft Cards

This video shows a group of people, mostly women, from Chernivtsi who gather to confront a local military recruitment officer. They are carrying their sons or husbands' conscription orders.

"Go fight your own war," they tell the conscription officer, who tells locals to "go to the Internet" if they want to find out why the new mobilization is happening. He is referring to the Kyiv regime's intensely propagandistic websites devoted to all things "ATO." But the protesters are having none of that. They gather dozens of blue-coloured conscription orders into a pile and burn them.


http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/25322-antiwar-protests-spreading-in-ukraine-as-government-wages-all-out-war-in-the-southeast-and-nato-threatens-russia

[CJCRANE]

1. What If They Gave A War And Nobody Came?

[RandySF]

2. What does the Ukrainian government do then?

Give up a piece of their country to the separatist? That would be like letting the Confederates walk away with the South.

[cpwm17]

3. Perhaps if the Ukrainian government doesn't represent them

the Ukrainian has no right to rule them? Don't governments work for the public rather than own the public?

[bemildred]

4. They were stupid to go to war in the first place.

I'm surprised they have made it this far, but they have lots of outside help, just like the rebels.

Read my sig line.