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Leaked: US think-tank plan on E.Ukraine suggests internment camps, executions, nationalizing citizens’ property
Published time: July 04, 2014 20:00
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A leaked memorandum from the RAND corporation think tank suggests that Kiev should engage in an all-out war in the eastern regions, including shutting down all communications, putting citizens in internment camps and killing all who resist.
The RAND Corporation is non-profit global think tank which offers research and analysis to the US armed forces.
In the shocking letter, which has been
leaked by the media, the advice offers a step by step brutal guide in how to deal with the population in eastern Ukraine.
‘Military op’s advantages overweigh disadvantage’
In the first line the memorandum notes that the peace plan outlined by new president Poroshenko is likely to fail. However, it soothes, the political and material downsides of the operation will be “outweighed” by the gains.
The chilling letter then lists the advantages that a full scale military onslaught against the two breakaway eastern Ukrainian regions would have.
The pro-Russian political movement, claims the advice, would become decimated and the pro-Russian voters would get disorganized.
Instead of upholding the region’s coal supplies as a source of future employment, it says the decimation of the coal industry in the fighting would mean they would be quickly shut down, thereby relieving the Ukraine of burdensome subsidy costs.
Shutting down the Donbass industries would also mean a reduction in Russian gas consumption and the destruction of the local oligarch Rinat Akhmetov’s clan and his political and economic clout.
Stage 1: Suspend Constitution, impose martial law
The shocking memorandum then lists a three stage military campaign to guarantee victory. Stage One, called the total isolation of the rebel regions, presuming that all civilians who have stayed behind are “complicit in the unrest or supportive of it.”
It proposes martial law should be imposed in the area with a strict curfew between 20:00 and 06:00, while all local authorities would have their competencies terminated and Constitution be suspended in the area.
The regions should then be encircled with troops with special attention being given to areas which border on Russia.
As regards the media it recommends that all broadcasting services, telephone and mobile communications and internet services in the region should be shut down and that the international media should be “subject to a special procedure.”
Stage 2: Internment camps for male adults, any one resisting to be killed on the spot
Then begins Stage Two of the operation, called mop-up, which involves a gradual tightening of the circle of troops round the region, followed by airstrikes and then artillery and mortar assaults against the “enemy’s” strategic facilities.
Without any apparent regard for human life the RAND authors then advise that the use of non-conventional arms should not be ruled out “to ensure smaller casualties among our own personnel”.
The authors, who seemingly have little or no knowledge of the situation in eastern Ukraine, then say that settlements should be liberated one by one with armor going in first, followed by infantry who should shoot to kill anyone bearing arms.
In what appears to be advising ethnic cleansing, all male adults should be removed to internment camps, while anyone who attempts to resist should be executed; children under 13 and people over the age of 60 should be moved to specially equipped facilities in other areas.
In a bizarre piece of advice that appears at best unrealistic and at worst deranged RAND then says that anyone with bruises, scuff marks, traces of gun powder or gun oil on their clothes should be tried in court for separatism and terrorism. Any lucky residents who don’t fall into these categories would be allowed to return home after a period of two months “of internment” and would then be slapped under surveillance by the security services.
Stage 3: Property of convicted and displaced to be nationalized
Stage Three, which is risibly called ‘Back to Normal’, says that all refugees “from the warzone” should then be allowed to return home. This is presuming that in the first place they would have a home to return to and in the second place they would want to return home to a region now so divided along Ukrainian and Russian ethnicities.
However men aged 18-60 shalled be “checked” in internment camps, while the protperty of convicted and displaced resident of Donetsk and Lugansk regions shall be nationalized.
The area of the punitive operation shall be made “off limits” to the foreign media, the memorandum concludes.
Russian media: Moscow may send Ukraine 'peacekeeping' mission in next two days
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July 4, 2014, 3:10 p.m. |
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Matthew Luxmoore
Tanks with Kremlin-backed fighters outside the city of Sloviansk last month. According to Russian media, citing a Russian Foreign Ministry source, has suggested Russia is preparing to introduce "peacekeeping" forces in eastern Ukraine within the next two days.
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Russia may begin a “peacekeeping” operation in Ukraine within the next two days, according to comments made on July 3 by sources close to Russia’s Foreign Ministry.
“There is such an option… The situation is complicated. Two days ago we advised (Ukrainian President) Petro Poroshenko to ‘freeze’ the conflict in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts for a few months, so that the rebels and the Ukrainian army stop fighting… Poroshenko did not accept the plan, and every day innocent people are dying,” the source
told Russian news agency Znak.
“A peacekeeping operation from the Russian side is ready: if it is launched, several Russian units will form a protection ring around the large towns, in order to ensure the safety of peaceful citizens,” the news agency quoted the source as saying.
The reliability of the statement - as well as the identity of the source - remain unclear.
According to Ukrainska Pravda, its credibility is attested to by the fact that deputies of the Russian State Duma have been instructed to remain in Moscow over the following days amid the possibility of an emergency meeting being held.
Ukrainska Pravda also cites Znak journalist Katerina Vinokurova as saying information supplied by the same Foreign Ministry source in the past has always proved reliable.
The claim has provoked a strong response from Kyiv. Security Council Secretary Andriy Parubiy called it “a threat of direct aggression against Ukraine,” adding that peacekeeping forces can only be introduced under the aegis of the United Nations.
The news comes amid further reports of a military build-up in Ukraine’s east, where the government’s resumed “anti-terrorist operation” entered its third day. Parubiy denied that Russian troops had been withdrawn from the border with Ukraine, claiming that around 40,000 servicemen remain.
“The statement that Russian troops have been pulled back from the border is untrue. There was no pullback of troops, but quite the contrary, there was a [troop] rotation,” he said at a briefing in Kyiv on July 4, according to Interfax.
Yuriy Stets, head of the information security department of Ukraine’s National Guard, said 20 tanks and 122 armoured vehicles from Russia have been recorded in Luhansk region.
In the meantime, further rumours of a rift between separatist forces are emerging.
Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti
reported three desertions among rebel ranks on July 4, citing an assistant to rebel commander Igor Strelkov. On the same day, a
video was posted online showing a visibly shaken Strelkov saying Sloviansk will be destroyed within two weeks if the rebel forces currently in control of the town do not receive assistance.
“If Russia does not conclude a ceasefire or intervene militarily in our name, in the name of the Russian people living here, we will be destroyed. This will happen within the week, maximum two. And the first to be destroyed will be Sloviansk, with all of its inhabitants,” Strelkov says in the video.
Also on July 4, a
statement posted on the official website of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic announced the dismissal of the LPR government, including a document signed by its leader Valeriy Bolotov.
In the meantime, preparations continue ahead of another round of OSCE-mediated peace talks, slated to take place in Ukraine between Kyiv, Moscow and representatives of the two self-proclaimed republics in the Donbas. The group should meet “no later than July 5 with the goal of reaching an unconditional and mutually agreed sustainable ceasefire,” according to a document signed by the parties during a July 2 meeting in Berlin.
Amid shifting dynamics in the military conflict in Ukraine’s east, rhetoric on both sides has intensified. Russia’s Foreign Ministry on July 2 demanded that the Kyiv reinstate a ceasefire abandoned by Poroshenko on July 1 and cease its military campaign.
“Again we resolutely demand that the Ukrainian authorities — provided they are still able to evaluate sensibly the consequences of the criminal policy they conduct — to stop shelling peaceful cities and villages in their own country, to return to a real ceasefire in order to save human lives,” the Foreign Ministry said.
At a press conference on July 3, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Danylo Lubkivskiy issued a stark rebuke to Moscow.
“We are warning the whole international society against becoming hostages of the alternative reality which the Kremlin is trying to impose in such a consistent and thoughtless way. There is only one voice that the world does not and cannot trust: this voice comes from the Kremlin. The world demands real actions from Russia,” Lubkivskiy said.
Kyiv Post staff writer Matthew Luxmoore can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter at @mjluxmoore.
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