There's more room at the Inn. 'Ternational Criminal Court, Vlad.
There's no doubt on this, the Military Invasion by Russia into Ukraine is a criminal venture. It is the Crime of Aggression, the supreme War Crime. It is known as the supreme war crime, in that it generates the basis of all the subsequent criminal events associated with that act of aggression. The entire command structure prosecuting this war are war criminals. Putin is not the only one.
What must we citizens do? How do we support Russian citizens who, understanding this, wish to stop this war from within Russia and indict Mr. Putin and his colleagues?
Russia state television employee Marina Ovsyannikova, who ran on to the set of a live broadcast shouting: ‘Stop the war. No to war’, which millions of Russians will have seen. Such incredible courage in the work place. No one in the BBC, ITV, C4, CNN, FOX NEWS, etc has ever dared to do such a thing.
But to do it in Russia? This video is the recorded statement of Marina to her fellow Russians and to the world.
Some polish workers are blockading freight routes from Poland into Belarus and Russia.
A an article circulating on line : Polish Protest Blocks traffic into Belarus and Russia.
Polish demonstrators have blocked the path of lorries with Russian and Belarusian number plates trying to cross into Belarus, according to a report by broadcaster TVN24.
The action led to a traffic jam stretching 10km at the Koroszczyn border crossing.
Many of the protesters waved Ukrainian flags, indicating their support for that country which came under Russian attack on February 24.
Some of the attacking troops started the assault from Belarusian territory.
The truckers caught in the action protested that the war had nothing to do with them.
It's so sad, such sorrow, for any individual being put through all of this, and in this situation, today, multiplied by tens of millions. So many people, 40 million, so profoundly harmed.
Entire families, streets, villages, towns, farms in shattered, shocked, grief stricken, angered, outraged, in pain, confused, bereft, made penniless by a useless war, broken and still, even still holding it together, caring for children and elders.
War is a beast, most decent humans are beauty and they ought never meet. Ever. Better they be strangers, than acquaintances. But this culture makes frequent such associations.
For any readers looking to learn more about the Laws prohibiting War, here's a blog piece I wrote in 2008.
And a song to go with this:
*To be allowed to live at all is 'getting off lightly'.
There is no punishment that meets that criminality.
People must hold warlords to account. There is no alternative resolution to this problem.
Corneilius
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