Those who demand peace negotations are on the Kremlin's side.
They know fully well that the muscovites systematically gang-rape and torutre Ukrainain women and children.
This post is the English version of a letter to Swedens’s largest morning paper, Dagens Nyheter on 7 June 2024. It was published in Sydöstran 11 June 2024, and in Borås Tidning 17 June 2024.
AI-generated image by me.
The UN and human rights organizations have documented many war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine. On May 16, at a conference in Lviv, Oleksandra Matviichuk, president of the Ukraine-based Center for Civil Rights, which was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, gave a speech. In the speech, she described the conditions of the Ukrainian population living in areas occupied by the fascists in the Kremlin.
The occupation does not reduce human suffering, it simply makes it invisible. I spoke to hundreds of people who survived Russian captivity. They told me how they were beaten, raped, stuffed into wooden boxes, electrocuted through their genitals, and their fingers were cut, their nails were pulled out, their knees were drilled, they were forced to write in their own blood. One woman told me how her eye was dug out with a spoon.
The abuses are not unknown to anyone. Recently, the Finnish-Estonian writer Sofi Oksanen published a book about the systematic sexual violence against women committed by the Russian occupation forces.
The UN and human rights organizations have documented many war crimes committed by the Russian troops. War crimes that are now being investigated by, among other things, Swedish prosecutors with the aim of bringing the perpetrators to justice.
Those who call for negotiations and peace or a cease-fire do so in full awareness of what is going on in the Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine. Those who want us to stop sending weapons so that Ukraine can defend itself are doing so, fully aware of the Ukrainian women who have killed themselves after being gang-raped or who are severely tormented by their horrific experiences.