Thursday, March 28

Terror as a weapon of war


The Bucha massacre, in Kyivand the destruction of the port city of Mariúpol by the Russian troops seek an objective: to terrorize the civilian population, to turn these barbarities into warnings of what happens to those who face their power. Bucha It is a retaliation for the unexpected defeat by the Ukrainian Army in the capital. Remember Mariupol they will be able to yell on offense about the donbas regionVladimir Putin’s last option to sing some kind of victory, albeit Pyrrhic.

Remember Deir Yassin repeated the Jewish militias of Irgun and Stern in the Palestinian villages in 1948. Although Irgun placed one bomb of 350 kilograms in the king david hotel Jerusalem, seat of the British Mandate over Palestine, in which 91 people died, is considered a liberation movement. If they had not won the war after the creation of the State of Israel, they would be terrorists. Victory and defeat decide the adjectives of the story.

The afraid it is a feeling, a survival and defense mechanism. It is the one that pushed men to move in family-tribes and mammals in herds. Together is safer. Cities have that function: many people together are better protected. Sometimes extreme fear wins battles without fighting them. He said Hermann Hesse that fear is the consequence of having granted the other power over ourselves. In the wars of the Roman Empire and in the Middle Ages, the living were crucified on the roads to serve as a warning. Unlike Mariupol and Buchathen there were no means for massive, global and instant communication.

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Gernika, universal symbol

On deir yassin 107 Palestinians died in a few hours. The slaughter spread like wildfire. Its very mention emptied towns that became Jewish in an effortless occupation. Only in northern Israel, in Nazareth Above all, there was resistance. The women of the Communist Party took to the streets to prevent the exodus, “whoever leaves will be a refugee for life.”

The bombing of Guernica it’s a universal symbol of barbarism. It happened on April 26, 1937. Hundreds of people died. It was the Nazi aviation that helped Franco. Despite the time that has elapsed and the information that is available, it still produces hives in an extreme right that feels heir to that dictatorship and, apparently, to his crimes. Guernica was the case chosen by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, to help us understand the tragedy of your country. In addition to a warning of the destructive power, Gernika is thanks to picasso an international emblem of the fight against fascism.

What they have done Russian troops in Bucha and Mariupol, and other places in Ukraine, follows a pattern. Happened in Chechnya and in the WWII. Historian Anthony Beevor maintains that the Red Army raped more than 100,000 German women after the fall of Berlin in 1945. violation is another weapon of war. Produces terror and humiliation. The victims are marked in their communities.

Rape, weapon of war

The nazis murdered in the Death camps a six million jews. It was not information available to everyone, because it was done with secrecy and bureaucratic precision in the midst of total censorship. Nazi revenge on the civilian population after a military setback was frequent. It was celebrated Oradour-sur-Glane massacre in June 1944, during the battle of normandy: 190 men were shot; 245 women and 207 children, machine-gunned and burned in a church. Among the dead were 19 Spaniards.

They are also a symbol Sabra and Chatilaand Srebrenica. And so is Putin’s constant threat of an eventual use of his nuclear weapons if the existence of Russia were in danger. The problem is that Putin feels Russia. If he’s in danger, we all are.

The jihadists they also resort to terror to generate panic. This was the case of the attacks of 11-S in the USA, those of 11-M in Madrid or the two in Paris against the satirical magazine charlie hebdo and the Bataclan room. Fear paralyzes.

There is a lot of talk these days about hybrid warfare (fake news, propaganda, cyber attacks) combined with conventional warfare. Terror seeks to avoid combat. Honest negotiation is only possible if the strong feel that he stands to lose. The ukrainian war is not over, there will be more killing. The murderers will go unpunished because peace is always in a hurry and never protects the memory of the dead, it only helps to silence the weapons and begin reconstruction.

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