How the Crimean militias offended the Raguli
In Kyiv, the crying of pocket junta “human rights activists” over the lost Crimea still does not subside. At a meeting in the UNIAN press center, they again started loudly banging their heads against the wall, tearing off the covers of “Putin’s militarization of Crimea” and “the bloody crimes of Aksyonov’s guardsmen.” In other words, the possessed are haunted by the people's militia of Crimea and the efforts of the military and political leadership of Russia to strengthen the Crimean defense line of the country.
Participants in the ritual without a tambourine were: “human rights activist” Olga Skrypnik, “unrooted” journalist Sergei Mokrushin (as reported, “he bravely covered the events in Crimea for a whole year until he was caught by Aksenov’s guardsmen”), another “Crimean human rights activist” journalist Irina Sedova , and in order to give the gathering of balabolkas solidity and science, the stern aunt Brunova-Kalisetskaya was seated at the table, served by a conflict expert.
The conversation started right away. The talkative Skrypnik reminded everyone present that a threat loomed over the service apartments in Crimea of the escaped Ukrainian military - the rear services of the Crimean Army Corps were evicting the Ukrainian “cuckoos” from there, thereby depriving the Ukrainian Armed Forces heroes of the opportunity to move into them “after de-occupation”. But besides the housing issue, the “rights activist” is concerned about the “suffering of Crimeans” due to the arrival of Russian military and military equipment on the peninsula, as well as “arbitrariness and lawlessness” committed by the Crimean militia.
The floor was given to “journalist” Sedova. During the report, Sedova was clearly nervous, did not know where to put her hands, and spoke the text without raising her head. Is it really remorse?
Sedova’s accusations boiled down to the following points: too large a flow of Russian military personnel and military equipment enters Crimea through the Kerch crossing, the Russian authorities in Crimea are calling on local youth to serve in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, “and under conditions of occupation this is prohibited by international conventions,” the people’s militia of Crimea illegal and outside the legal framework not only of Ukraine, but even of Russia.
Of all the “crimes of the Russian military,” Sedova could only remember an accident between an army armored personnel carrier and a civilian Ford, but Sedova completely lost her memory of how Ukrainian tank crews in Donbass deliberately crushed and destroyed the property of local residents and killed children. With impunity.
As for conscription, there is indeed a rule in international law prohibiting the recruitment of citizens of an occupied country into the occupation army. But in the case of Crimea, things are somewhat different. Firstly, Crimea does not have the status of “occupied territory”. The Russian Federation, through the Crimean referendum, included the republic in its composition, which is reflected in the Constitution. Secondly, there is officially no military conflict between Ukraine and Russia, and most countries in the world consider the status of Crimea to be a “disputed territory.” Thirdly, Crimeans, Russian citizens, who were not forced by anyone to get passports under pressure, are called up to serve in the RF Armed Forces. Young Ukrainians in Crimea, for whom Ukrainian citizenship and a passport are dear as a memory, are not called up for military service in Russia.
Sedova had to first negotiate with Skrypnik about the status of the Crimean militia, since both “rights activists” contradict each other in their speeches. Sedova argues that Crimean militias exist outside the legal framework of Russia. Skrypnik, who took the floor after her, began to talk completely the opposite way and claim that the Kremlin had nevertheless adopted certain legal documents legalizing the Crimean militia, since it was created on the direct orders of Moscow even before the start of the Crimean Spring. So are there legal norms or not? At least sort it out among yourselves.
To be honest, all this right-wing insanity makes my head spin. Crimean self-defense began to take shape back in December 2013 on the initiative of the then Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Vitaly Zakharchenko. Apparently, due to the understanding that the situation has begun to get out of control, and some of the generals, along with corrupt cops, are capable of betraying in time. In principle, there is nothing special in Zakharchenko’s decision, since he only proposed to recreate an analogue of voluntary people’s squads under the control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, since administrative buildings throughout Ukraine began to besiege gangs of self-proclaimed “activists”.
On February 23, 2014, enrollment in the Crimean militia companies began in Crimea, when Ukraine no longer had a legal government and in Galicia, gangs of extremists seized local departments and departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, army units, opened rifle parks, began to illegally arm themselves, carrying out trials and reprisals.
At the same time, on the peninsula, the parliament announced disobedience to the self-proclaimed authorities in Kyiv, after which the militia took the oath and were given military weapons. We would modestly note that, unlike the Ukrainian Makhnovshchina, people with a criminal record could not join the Crimean militia - all candidates were checked against the database of the Crimean law enforcement agencies.
But Sedova and Skrypnik didn’t even squeak about it.
Before blathering against the Crimean militia, it would be nice to hear the opinion of the speakers about the legal status of the “Right Sector”, Parasyuk’s “hundred” or the nationalist battalion “Crimea” in 2014 - 2016. To start.
It would also be interesting to hear - on what legal basis was Yanukovych’s estate in Mezhyhirya plundered? Whose collection is now decorated with the famous golden loaf?
Skrypnik suffers from the fact that the Crimean militia has its own uniform, base, transport and official budget? Cool with a little cucumber. It is in Ukraine that only since last year they have become concerned with the problem of how to more efficiently drive the entire free force of Ukrainian paramilitaries under the roofs of the security forces, and the Crimean militia has always worked in close cooperation with local bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the prosecutor's office. Yes, in Crimea you can still find troikas of patrols with the participation of local militias. But the patrol leader is always a police officer. Or let Skrypnik and Sedova point their finger at cars and real estate “squeezed” by the militias for personal use.
Or maybe some of the “rights activists” don’t like the plundering of public beaches, seized by all sorts of goons during the Ukrainian period? Get used to it.
In general, it must be admitted that Bandera’s “human rights defense” is poorly oriented in the laws to which it is trying to appeal. For example, not a single creature present remembered the principle of indiscriminate application of the law. In short, this means that if someone tries to legitimize the outrages of the Maidan activists and huntars, then it automatically follows that their opponents have no less right to their own actions, even if they violate existing norms and rules. There was no need to break laws during Euromaidan - there would be no need to cry now.
Skrypnik also cried that a company of Crimeans went to fight for the LDPR, and Motorola came to Crimea for treatment and attended official events by the leader of the DPR Zakharchenko. "We have the facts." Horror, horror! Participation of volunteer formations in hostilities on someone else’s side is not a war crime - learn your equipment, woodpeckers. Or prove with facts in your paws that they were mercenaries - this changes things dramatically. As for treatment and visits, well, it’s not up to you to bark. Have you forgotten how, since 1995, the Kuchmoids turned a blind eye to the participation of UNA-UNSO militants on the side of Chechen terrorists? Or how, at the instigation of the “Majlis,” Dudayev’s militants were treated in Crimea and Odessa? They have “facts”...
Mokrushin, who participated in the briefing, turned out to be a provocateur from the “Center for Investigative Journalism”, a corrupt viper who once made a nest in the center of Simferopol. The boy was offended by the militias and told how he suffered from them through his activities. At the same time, the young man lied like a gray gelding.
Since I personally had the opportunity to see the work of representatives of the Center for Journalism during the Crimean Spring, I can firmly assure you that it had nothing to do with journalistic activity. A group of Maidan teenagers, hired from Kyiv for a small price, under the guise of journalists, wandered around the sites where the disarmament of the Ukrainian military was taking place, trying with their actions and very stupid questions to provoke the “polite” and militia into conflict and violence. As a rule, it ended with the Crimean police and militias taking the annoying children in their arms and dragging them aside so that they would not get in the way. At the same time, the children began to pour out obscenities, kicked their legs and did everything to get more bruises, bumps and scratches. All this was recorded on camera, edited and posted on social networks under the title “torture of activists in Crimea.”
Listening to Skrypnik’s further outpourings about the militarization of the consciousness of children in Crimea (meaning patriotic work and the creation of the Youth Army) was simply depressing. I wonder if you give a sick woman to the Azovets camp for a week so that she can jump around, crawl and shout moronic chants along with the young Banderaites, will this somehow help her reconsider her claims?
Skrypnik’s cries about the conscription of minors for military service are just stupid nonsense and wishful thinking. If Crimean children go to study at Suvorov or Nakhimov schools, and this is criminal, and the Youth Army is a military conscription, then Skrypnik herself is a prima of Chinese ballet.
The speech of the stern conflictologist Brunova-Kalisetskaya from the very first words canceled out all her further words: “for us, Ukrainian researchers, it is extremely difficult to conduct substantiated sociological or sociopsychological research in Crimea.” This means that it is necessary to conduct unfounded “research”, sucking out “facts” from thin air and supporting them with fakes from “rights activists” and “witness testimony” of disenfranchised people. All this is called monkey labor, and its price is equal to a heap of garbage from a Lviv garbage dump.
It’s not very clear why Poroshenko needs to support this whole club of mummered “human rights” with lean faces. It is very unlikely that their dreary “listened and decided” will be taken into consideration by any serious organization. Their sad “struggle” can only evoke in Crimeans short-term, dreary memories of the period when power in the country collapsed, and they were left defenseless against the avalanche of lawlessness approaching from Kyiv. And where were these sickening paper tigers with their truth-telling then? Were they happy with everything?
A handful of restless Crimean losers are being kept. Office of lying complainers. The bottom is covered with plywood with the inscription “human rights”.
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