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We are gravely concerned by reports of a sham “trial” and its judgements against lawful combatants serving in Ukraine’s Armed Forces. We call on Russia and its proxies to respect international humanitarian law, including the rights and protections afforded prisoners of war.
— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) June 9, 2022
How is it a “sham”?
What does that even mean?
No one is denying that they are foreign mercenaries not protected by the Geneva Conventions.
RT:
A number of Western politicians have condemned the death sentences handed out to three foreigners – two Britons and a Moroccan – by a Donetsk court on Thursday after they were found guilty of acting as mercenaries and attempting to seize power by force in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
The fighters, British nationals Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, and Moroccan citizen Saadun Ibrahim, were captured by Russian and DPR forces in, or near, Mariupol in April. The men had previously pleaded guilty to “undergoing training for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities” and attempting to topple the government in Donetsk.
Under the criminal code of the DPR, the forcible seizure of power is punishable by 12 to 20 years in prison or capital punishment during war time. Both Russia and the DPR have insisted that the three men acted as mercenaries and thus the traditional protections of regular combatants under international law do not apply to them.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has slammed the verdict as a “sham” judgment, writing on Twitter on Thursday that the White House was “gravely concerned” by the trial of the three men, who he insisted were acting as “lawful combatants serving in Ukraine’s Armed Forces.” Blinken urged “Russia and its proxies” to respect international humanitarian law and the rights of prisoners of war.
A mercenary is not a “lawful combatant.”
No one is confused by this situation. Anyone claiming to be confused is either literally so retarded they can’t do a 5-second Google search, or they believe you are so retarded that you can’t do that.
This is a yet another place where if the US was not run by morons, they wouldn’t even comment at all.
