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(10,763 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,548 posts)applegrove
(118,026 posts)lame54
(35,143 posts)Russia and Ukraine
Tetrachloride
(7,728 posts)President Zelenskyy criticism of Amnesty International
applegrove
(118,026 posts)at present while Zelensky does the math over the long term and what will be the fate of Ukrainians if Russia wins. Even if Ukrainian civilians survive they will be forced to work for Russian oligarchs for a pittance while the oligarchs become bigger billionaires. Colonialism where dissidents can be killed easily. Russia has demonstrated it is not afraid of committing war crimes. Oligarchical colonialism is what happened after 2014 in some Russian controlled areas of Ukraine. Short term: Amnesty vs.long term: Valensky thinking. Survival of people vs. survival of a peoples. It is all on Russia in the end.
Crunchy Frog
(26,548 posts)It's basically lending legitimacy to the Kremlin narrative behind their terrorist bombings of civilian targets, giving it a patina of respectability. They're likely to be even less restrained than they have been up to now.
I strongly suspect that the organization has been heavily infiltrated by Russian assets.
applegrove
(118,026 posts)Last edited Tue Aug 9, 2022, 06:43 PM - Edit history (1)
all kinds of groups. The Russians target the DU and were all over Discussionist. However I know the kind of people who work AI and they are great. Still. It is a fallacy that being a good person makes one immune from exploitation by a psychopath. Anybody can fall to a talented one. To be a victim of a con you just need to be a feeling person.
mitch96
(13,822 posts)stop russians from killing Ukrainians.. ?wtf?
Total ass backwards thinking
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/06/amnesty-now-utterly-morally-bankrupt/
Takket
(21,425 posts)roamer65
(36,739 posts)PortTack
(32,606 posts)Causes across The country from orphans to the fight on the front lines
Slava Ukraine!!
Crunchy Frog
(26,548 posts)Sad thing is that I remember when it was a good organization with a very tight focus on political prisoners and issues immediately affecting them, like torture. During the days of the "Secret Policeman's Balls".
An organization like that could do a lot of good in Ukraine right now with all the mass arrests, torture, disappearances, and murders in the Russian occupied areas. It would be great if there were an organization specifically dedicated to these types of human rights abuses.
DFW
(54,059 posts)I'd want verification on that. Russian diplomats have better translators than that.
Crunchy Frog
(26,548 posts)Link to tweet
?s=20&t=limQDcMK5jv9U7sEegEFsA
And the Twitter account.
https://mobile.twitter.com/mission_russian