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| Image: Neo-Nazis light Trade Union House ablaze, killing 30+ in Odessa. |
Western headlines have attempted to spin into ambiguity the death of
over 30 anti-fascist Ukrainian protesters cornered and burned to death
in the Trade Unions House in the southern port city of Odessa. The arson
was carried out by Neo-Nazi mobs loyal to the unelected regime now occupying Kiev.
Both the London Guardian and the BBC attempted in their coverage to make the perpetrators and circumstances as ambiguous as possible before revealing paragraphs down that pro-regime mobs had indeed torched the building. And even still, the Western press has attempted to omit the presence of Right Sector, the militant wing of the current regime charged with carrying out political intimidation and violence against Kiev’s opponents.
Odessa, north of pro-Russian Crimea, and far west of where clashes are now taking place in eastern Ukraine, has also been a point of contention between Kiev and Ukrainians who refuse to recognize the unelected regime’s authority.
Right Sector, a Neo-Nazi militant group who spearheaded the so-called “Euromaidan” protests, has been visibly operating in Odessa in recent weeks. It’s primary role has been to attack and intimidate political opponents
planning to run in upcoming elections. It was therefore already present
an well established in Odessa ahead of the attack on the Trade Unions
House resulting in dozens of deaths in a single day, and as part of a
wider campaign to put down multiplying unrest erupting across the country.
Right Sector can be identified by its members openly wearing Nazi
insignia, as well as carrying crimson and black banners. Mobs supporting
the Svoboda party are also present among recent clashes, wearing yellow
armbands with the Nazi wolfsangel symbol upon them.
For NATO – War or Nothing?
Both the London Guardian and the BBC attempted in their coverage to make the perpetrators and circumstances as ambiguous as possible before revealing paragraphs down that pro-regime mobs had indeed torched the building. And even still, the Western press has attempted to omit the presence of Right Sector, the militant wing of the current regime charged with carrying out political intimidation and violence against Kiev’s opponents.
Odessa, north of pro-Russian Crimea, and far west of where clashes are now taking place in eastern Ukraine, has also been a point of contention between Kiev and Ukrainians who refuse to recognize the unelected regime’s authority.
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| Image: The crimson-black banner of Right Sector upon an armored personnel carrier in Ukraine. . |
For NATO – War or Nothing?
