The speech that Nobel peace prize laureate @avalaina gave today is amazing. It daringly describes the atrocities #Russia is conducting in #Ukraine, calls on the broken international structures and appeals to our humanity. It’s heartbreaking, candid and true.
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I will share a few of Oleksandra’s powerful speech that made me pause:
This war has been going on for eight years, 9 months and 21 days. For millions of people, such words as shelling, torture, deportation, filtration camps have become commonplace.
This war has been going on for eight years, 9 months and 21 days. For millions of people, such words as shelling, torture, deportation, filtration camps have become commonplace.
Russia, […] has been consistently destroying its own civil society […] But the countries of the democratic world have long turned a blind eye to this. They continued to shake hands with the Russian leadership, build gas pipelines and conduct business as usual.
For decades, Russian troops have been
committing crimes in different countries. But they always got away with this.
committing crimes in different countries. But they always got away with this.
People of Ukraine want peace more than anyone else in the world. But peace cannot
be reached by country under attack laying down its arms. This would not be peace,
but occupation.
be reached by country under attack laying down its arms. This would not be peace,
but occupation.
After the liberation of Bucha, we found a lot of civilians murdered in the streets and courtyards of their homes. These people were unarmed.
We must stop pretending deferred military threats are “political compromises”. The democratic world has grown accustomed to making concessions to dictatorships. And that is why the willingness of the Ukrainian people to resist Russian imperialism is so important.
This is not a war between two states, it is a war of two systems – authoritarianism and democracy.
The international system of peace and security does not work anymore.
The UN system, created after the World War II by its winners, provides for some unjustified indulgences for individual countries. If we don't want to live in the world where rules are set by states with stronger military capabilities, this has to be changed.
And since this Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony takes place during the war, I will allow myself to reach out to people around the world and call for solidarity. You don't have to be Ukrainians to support Ukraine. It is enough just to be humans.
Read Oleksandra's speech here: nobelprize.org/uploads/2022/1…
Stand with Ukraine and democracy
#NobelPrize #Nobel
Stand with Ukraine and democracy
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