The public humiliation and flogging of people accused of being thieves, marauders and saboteurs is unacceptable, even with a trial these kind of punishments are brutal and must stop.
The price for defeating the invasion cannot be a breakdown of law and order across #Ukraine 🇺🇦
The price for defeating the invasion cannot be a breakdown of law and order across #Ukraine 🇺🇦
This is not to lecture a society going through war. Ukrainians are dealing with invasion, death & destruction as any other society would.
Abuses like these are wrong, but do not undermine Ukraine's full moral high ground to fight & defeat this invasion, but the abuses are wrong.
Abuses like these are wrong, but do not undermine Ukraine's full moral high ground to fight & defeat this invasion, but the abuses are wrong.
Here in the Netherlands we have a very similar history. After our liberation from the Nazis thousands of Dutch who associated with the Germans were rounded up. Women who often had done as little as kiss a German soldier were shaved in public or covered in tar.
It ended up being one of our more shameful parts in WW2 history. It didn't mean the Germans were right, that we Dutch deserved to be occupied or that we had no right to be liberated or resist occupation, but these "afrekeningen" (reckonings) were wrong nonetheless.
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