Originally Posted by FindersKeepers
This might or might not be true, but it sounds pretty iffy to me.
Patrick Lawrence actually uses a mainstream source to back up his assertions. From the article:
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A short while later The Telegraph reported that its correspondent had found no evidence to support Ukrainian claims of large body counts—one official asserted they had found 1,000 bodies—and none indicating that any of the victims had been tortured.
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It's not like this is the first time Ukraine has made up tall tales of a mass grave. Patrick Lawrence actually pointed out a similar incident wherein Ukrainian officials made up an even bigger number:
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Eva Bartlett, a Canadian correspondent, reminds me of Wilfred Burchett in a way: She reports from “the other side” and has no use for anybody’s orthodoxies. She did this to effect in Syria, and before that in the Palestinians territories. Earlier in the Ukraine conflict, she traveled to a site nine miles outside Mariupol where it was widely reported the Russians had dug and filled a mass grave with—get set for this—9,000 Ukrainians. This is a lot of Ukrainians to bury all at once. But all the big dailies, never stopping to think things through, went with the story Ukrainian officials gave them. Nine thousand it was.
No mass grave, Bartlett found. Her piece featured interviews with local officials and witnesses, video segments, photographs. She found an orderly, undisturbed cemetery with orderly, undisturbed grave markers. She showed us pictures of same. She spoke to the grave-diggers, who were mystified by the reports of a mass grave.
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Full article:
Patrick Lawrence: So Far As I Can Make Out | Scheerpost
I don't think it was that hard for the Russian army to dig a hole and put 17 bodies into it. The alternative would have been to leave them their to rot or to burn them, both of which would stink up the area Russian troops were in considerably. Russia's also been concerned about their public image from day 1.
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