Stealth Genocide

I call this process that has been operating in Ukraine since Feb 2014 ‘Stealth Genocide.’ Russia’s creeping genocide in Ukraine was stealthy because not even I, an international lawyer, categorised what I witnessed as such. I who experienced a 3-year-long fever dream on that bridge never, in my wildest nightmares, suspected that what I was seeing each day was a preparation, through brainwashing Disinfolklore, for the genocide of Ukrainians by Ukrainians, at the behest of the Russians.

Source: Twitter Note (June 2024)

Between 2015 and 2018, working in eastern Ukraine as a diplomat, I witnessed a stealthily prepared and executed genocide. Even though I had studied the holocaust. Read much of its literature. It was not for several years after leaving that place, after the full-scale invasion, that I realised what I had seen and participated in.

Source: Stealth Genocide Podcast

It’s 1942 at the end of your garden there’s a railway track and you see the cattle cars going by on the way to Auschwitz — you know you’re witnessing genocide. Of course you don’t. You’re just seeing a moment in it.

The historical lesson is clear: Disinfolklore conceals the preparations for the worst crimes against humanity in plain sight.

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