Their Own Nuremberg: Odessa Protesters Denounce U.S.-Backed Crime Against Humanity

Itar-Tass
May 3, 2014
Odessa residents block regional police building, demand punishment for deaths
ODESSA: Some 150 residents in Odessa, a southern Ukrainian city blocked the regional police building to protest against police inaction during the clashes provoked by ultranationalist Right Sector militants and so-called “Maidan self-defense” force, which resulted in the death of 46 people.
The protesters were chanting “Nemirovsky the murderer”, referring to the Odessa governor, and demanding his resignation, while threatening to storm the building if their demands were not met.
People also kept coming to the city’s Trade Union House, which extremists set on fire on Friday, May 2, killing dozens. The people tried to force their way into the building but were pushed back by reinforced police units that were guarding the premises pending the investigation. Enraged protesters pulled down the Ukrainian flag put up on the building by Right Sector militants and burnt it. Police did not interfere.
Local mass media quoted a source in the Interior Ministry as saying that militants from the special task force battalions Vostok (East) and Shturm (Storm) clad in civilian clothes had been involved in the killings and beatings in Odessa. Reports said they were manned with nationalists ready for mass clashes and sponsored by Ukrainian oligarchs Igor Kolomoisky and Pyotro Poroshenko.
Odessa region prosecutor Igor Borshulyak said 46 people had been killed in the clashes and over 200 had requested medical attention, including 20 policemen.
Parliament-appointed acting President Oleksander Turchynov declared two-day national morning for those killed. Odessa itself will mourn three days.
Unrest erupted on Friday, May 2, with a mass fight started by football fans from Kharkiv, Right Sector radicals and members of the so-called “Maidan self-defense” force from Kiev, who had decided to march along the streets of Odessa, thus provoking clashes with the supporters of Ukraine’s federalisation.
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Itar-Tass
May 3, 2014
Events in southeast of Ukraine – crime against humanity
MOSCOW: The developments in the southeast of Ukraine – in Odessa, Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, where Ukrainian security services are conducting a special operation that has claimed the lives of tens of people constitute “a crime against humanity,” leader of the A Just Russia party Sergei Mironov expressed this view on Saturday.
“This is fascism,” he said in an interview to the Rossiya 24 news television channel.
According to him, the things “that the Kiev authorities allow the Right Sector to do are real fascism.”
Mironov also called the forthcoming presidential election in Ukraine a farce. In his view, the Kiev authorities are doomed and “their own Nuremberg” is undoubtedly in store for them.
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Itar-Tass
May 3, 2014
Putin expresses deep condolences to families of Odessa fire victims – Kremlin spokesman
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin expresses deep condolences to the families of those killed in Odessa, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
“We, unfortunately, have no possibility to express condolences to official Kiev, according to the international practice, because there is no official Kiev as such,” Peskov said. “But nevertheless, the president expresses his condolences to the relatives of those killed and burned alive in Odessa and wishes the earliest recovery to those injured in the mentioned punitive operation.”
In the words of Peskov, the Russian president feels keen sorrow and compassion for those killed as a result of punitive action of the Kiev authorities and those injured. According to Peskov, the tragedy of Odessa, where nationalists and radicals burned unarmed people alive with the obvious connivance of the authorities – it’s indeed a crime.
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Itar-Tass
May 3, 2014
RF shocked at West’s placidity over actions against SE Ukraine people
UNITED NATIONS: The Russian delegation was shocked at the placidity of Western countries over the illegitimate Kiev leadership’s actions with the use of force against residents in southeastern Ukraine, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said.
Such an attitude of the West made Kiev sure of impunity for its actions, he noted.

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