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"By contrast, the Donetsk Republic formulates its agenda from below,
literally on the run, in response to the public mood and the course of
events. Strictly speaking this republic is not even a state—rather, it
amounts to a coalition of diverse communities, most of them
self-organised. In essence, it is the perfect embodiment of the
anarchist concept of the revolutionary order."
--Boris Kagarlitsky
NY Times, August 26 2014
As Peace Talks Approach, Rebels Humiliate Prisoners in Ukraine
By ANDREW E. KRAMER and ANDREW ROTH
DONETSK, Ukraine — On the sidewalk of a busy street beside a checkpoint,
a bearded gunman wrapped a woman in a Ukrainian flag and forced her to
stand, sobbing in terror, holding a sign identifying her as a spotter
for Ukrainian artillery. “She kills our children,” it read. Because the
woman was a spy, said the gunman, a pro-Russian militant, everything
that would happen to her would be well-deserved.
Passers-by stopped their cars to get out and spit, slap her face and
throw tomatoes at her. Her knees buckled. She struggled to mumble in
protest of her innocence and to shake her head in denial.
This theatrical scene of abuse unfolded a day after the rebel movement
had paraded Ukrainian prisoners of war down a main thoroughfare here at
bayonet point, then dramatically washed the pavement behind them.
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