See what advice the RAND corporation has provided for the Ukrainian junta
We'll see if this makes it into mainstream media.
We'll see if this makes it into mainstream media.
I'll bet it won't
Leaked: ‘US think-tank plan’ on E. Ukraine suggests internment camps, executions
A leaked memo attributed to RAND corporation think tank suggests the Ukrainian govt should engage in an all-out war in the east, including shutting down all communications, putting citizens in internment camps and killing all who resist such actions.
RT,
4
July, 2014
In
the shocking letter, which has been leaked
to online media,
the advice offers a step by step brutal guide in how to deal with the
population in eastern Ukraine. The authenticity of the document
which bears the RAND corporation logo, however, could not be
independently verified.
The
RAND Corporation is non-profit global think tank which offers
research and analysis to the US armed forces.
‘Military
op’s advantages overweigh’
In
the first line the memorandum notes that the peace plan outlined by
new president Poroshenko is likely to fail. However, it soothes, the
political and material downsides of the operation will
be “outweighed” by
the gains.
The
chilling letter then lists the advantages that a full scale military
onslaught against the two breakaway eastern Ukrainian regions would
have.
The
pro-Russian political movement, claims the advice, would become
decimated and the pro-Russian voters would get disorganized.
Instead
of upholding the region’s coal supplies as a source of future
employment, it says the decimation of the coal industry in the
fighting would mean they would be quickly shut down, thereby
relieving the Ukraine of burdensome subsidy costs.
Shutting
down the Donbass industries would also mean a reduction in Russian
gas consumption and the destruction of the local oligarch Rinat
Akhmetov’s clan and his political and economic clout.
Stage
1: Suspend Constitution, impose martial law
The
shocking memorandum then lists a three stage military campaign to
guarantee victory. Stage one, called the total isolation of the rebel
regions, presuming that all civilians who have stayed behind
are“complicit in the unrest
or supportive of it.”
It
proposes martial law should be imposed in the area with a strict
curfew between 20:00 and 06:00, while all local authorities would
have their competencies terminated and Constitution be suspended in
the area.
The
regions should then be encircled with troops with special attention
being given to areas which border on Russia.
As
regards the media it recommends that all broadcasting services,
telephone and mobile communications and internet services in the
region should be shut down and that the international media should
be “subject to a
special procedure.”
Stage
2: Internment camps for male adults, those who resist to be killed on
the spot
Then
begins Stage Two of the operation, called mop-up, which involves a
gradual tightening of the circle of troops round the region, followed
by airstrikes and then artillery and mortar assaults against
the“enemy’s” strategic
facilities.
Without
any apparent regard for human life the RAND authors then advise that
the use of non-conventional arms should not be ruled out “to
ensure smaller casualties among our own personnel”.
The
authors, who seemingly have little or no knowledge of the situation
in eastern Ukraine, then say that settlements should be liberated one
by one with armor going in first, followed by infantry who should
shoot to kill anyone bearing arms.
In
what appears to be advising ethnic cleansing, all male adults should
be removed to internment camps, while anyone who attempts to resist
should be executed; children under 13 and people over the age of 60
should be moved to specially equipped facilities in other areas.
In
a bizarre piece of advice that appears at best unrealistic and at
worst deranged RAND then says that anyone with bruises, scuff marks,
traces of gun powder or gun oil on their clothes should be tried in
court for separatism and terrorism. Any lucky residents who don’t
fall into these categories would be allowed to return home after a
period of two months “of
internment” and
would then be slapped under surveillance by the security services.
Stage
3: Property of convicted and displaced to be nationalized
Stage
Three, which is risibly called ‘Back to Normal’, says that all
refugees “from the warzone” should then be allowed to return
home. This is presuming that in the first place they would have a
home to return to and in the second place they would want to return
home to a region now so divided along Ukrainian and Russian
ethnicities.
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