Eva Bartlett: Western Silence As Ukraine Targets Civilians in Donbass

Addressing the EIR Symposium, Peace On Earth, Or Humanity s Doom The Case For Negotiations, Canadian journalist Eva Bartlett, who was granted the 2017 International Journalism Award by the Journalists Club of Mexico and has spent years doing ontheground reporting of wars in the Middle East, gave an eyewitness account of the ongoing genocide against the people of Donbass, where she has been reporting for the last year. Since 2014, she reported, 12, 500 civilians have been killed by sniping and shelling with NATO weapons in both the Lugansk Peoples Republic and Donetsk Peoples Republic, with over 4, 500 killed since midFebruary of this year. Given that civilian areas are targeted, this shelling constitutes terrorism and war crimes. According to Bartlett, the Ukrainian military has also been saturating the Donbass with PFM1 petal mines, insidious devices designed not to kill but to maim victims by blowing off their hands or feet. Children are particularly susceptible to these devic