The Trauma Machinery of the War in the Ukraine<\/h2><\/div>It is apparent that children and young people on both sides of the conflict are caught up in the trauma machine of the war. In the East, the war lies right outside the front door; young people are literally \u2018con-front-ed\u2019 with it in the truest sense of the word.\u00a0 This is also true for young Russian soldiers.\u00a0 From the outset of the so-called \u2018anti-terrorism operation\u2019 in April of 2014, the war has opened the depths of the human abyss. The rules of war as laid out in the Geneva Convention were not adequately communicated, observed, or controlled. These violations occurred not only on the part of \u2018separatists\u2019 and Russian units.
\nThe result has been half a million refugees, tens of thousands dead, 30,000 wounded, including a large number of civilians, splinter bombs, starvation, torture, abductions, and yes, even child soldiers. Hatred has been well fed on both sides of this war, and has driven former best friends or even brothers and sisters into two almost unbridgeable camps. Meanwhile, the Ukraine lies trampled on the ground.
\nThis is happening in a country almost twice the size of Germany, with immense potential and resources, with wondrous people, in Europe in the 21st century.
\nThe population is at the mercy of the most powerful and merciless. It governs through the language of violence. Again, this is true not only on the part of the “separatists”. No, it also comes from the circles of the New Government; a Tyhanibok, who called for the struggle against the Jewish-Russian mafia; a Tymoshenko, who would rather throw an atomic bomb on the whole of Eastern Ukraine and shoot Putin himself in the head; a Yatsenyuk, who wanted set fire to the east, and many others with similar desires. It includes deputies who entertained their private armies and went to the Parliament in uniform from the battlefield, and Oleg Lyaschko, who likes to abuse traitors to the Fatherland in front of the camera.<\/p>\n<\/div>
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It is apparent that children and young people on both sides of the conflict are caught up in the trauma machine of the war. In the East, the war lies right outside the front door; young people are literally \u2018con-front-ed\u2019 with it in the truest sense of the word.\u00a0 This is also true for young Russian soldiers.\u00a0 From the outset of the so-called \u2018anti-terrorism operation\u2019 in April of 2014, the war has opened the depths of the human abyss. The rules of war as laid out in the Geneva Convention were not adequately communicated, observed, or controlled. These violations occurred not only on the part of \u2018separatists\u2019 and Russian units.
\nThe result has been half a million refugees, tens of thousands dead, 30,000 wounded, including a large number of civilians, splinter bombs, starvation, torture, abductions, and yes, even child soldiers. Hatred has been well fed on both sides of this war, and has driven former best friends or even brothers and sisters into two almost unbridgeable camps. Meanwhile, the Ukraine lies trampled on the ground.
\nThis is happening in a country almost twice the size of Germany, with immense potential and resources, with wondrous people, in Europe in the 21st century.
\nThe population is at the mercy of the most powerful and merciless. It governs through the language of violence. Again, this is true not only on the part of the “separatists”. No, it also comes from the circles of the New Government; a Tyhanibok, who called for the struggle against the Jewish-Russian mafia; a Tymoshenko, who would rather throw an atomic bomb on the whole of Eastern Ukraine and shoot Putin himself in the head; a Yatsenyuk, who wanted set fire to the east, and many others with similar desires. It includes deputies who entertained their private armies and went to the Parliament in uniform from the battlefield, and Oleg Lyaschko, who likes to abuse traitors to the Fatherland in front of the camera.<\/p>\n<\/div>
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