UN judges at the Hague today rejected calls by the Ukrainian government to order Russia to stop supporting secessionist rebels in eastern Ukraine, saying that there is no treaty requirement which would provide a basis for making such an order.
Ukraine had argued that global treaties on terrorism would apply to the case, but the court ruled that there was insufficient evidence to claim that Russia would have any reason to believe the rebels might commit terrorist acts against the government.
The Ukrainian government has been labeling the rebels, mostly ethnic Russians, as terrorists from the start of the eastern civil war, which was launched when the rebels attempted to secede after a 2014 regime change in the western capital led to attempts by the government to eliminate Russian as an official language, and restricting economically vital trade along the Russiian border.
The court did, however, agree with Ukraine’s call to require Russia to continue education in Ukrainian language for ethnic Tatars in the Crimean Peninsula. The Tatars are a minority in Crimea, but generally opposed the secession of Crimea from Ukraine, and its accession into the Russian Federation. The Ukrainians claimed not allowing the Tatars to continue education in Ukrainian amounted to ethnic discrimination against them.
Screw the Hague. When they can bring American war criminals to justice then perhaps they will have proven their ability to make rulings.
Ukraine is merely a running-dog of U.S. imperialism.
If Kiev wants the tiny eastern province back they can start by stop calling their brothers terrorists.
It’s pretty rich hypocrisy for the Ukrainian authorities to have one the one hand and after Maiden sought to restrict the speaking of the Russian language by eastern Ukrainians in the Donbass to then go on and contemporaneously bemoan any restrictions that the Russians may have imposed (I can’t find a reference to this anywhere) on the Tartars in Crimea about speaking and teaching Ukrainian.
But then, that is the world in which we live, it seems.
LF
The Kiev fascists took one in the chin.
No offense but (in my opinion) the Ukes in Kiev are idiots!
Now the USA, the IMF, Monsanto etc. have taken over their nation.
They lay down with Victoria Nuland and behold, their entire country is infested with fleas…
Well, if the USA’s supporting the illegitimate Kiev Junta, Russia has every right to support the Novorossiyans in the Republics of Lugansk and Donetsk. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
The Tatars did NOT reject the secession from Ukropistan. Most of those who voted approved of the split.