You won’t get this from Russia Today:
The show of support for Russia comes as the Kiev government claimed police have found a mass grave containing 52 corpses in a Ukrainian city formerly occupied by pro-Russian rebels.
The find is in addition to the earlier discovery of 14 bodies, claimed Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko.
‘Police have interrogated a man who was burying the bodies on the order of terrorists,’ he said.
‘He pointed at a mass grave where 52 bodies were buried, but this is not all. Many bodies were buried here and there. We are working at locating all the bodies.’
I agree that the Russian separatists have committed atrocities, and so have certain factions inside the Ukrainian rebels. But this constant use of the word “terrorist” is getting old. It’s political Orwellian “newspeak” in my opinion. I recall when certain Afghan rebels were called “ freedom fighters”. Of course, when they crossed us, that’s where they became “terrorists”.
War in general, is terrorism, if you’ve got bombs being dropped in your neighborhood. But the use of the word “terrorist” is specifically being used to evoke negative emotions without thoughtful deliberation.
There may come a day when law abiding tea party types, and supporters of the second amendment are called terrorists... oh wait, that’s already happened.