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zV8vWCVF5hĭ’Agata later apologised, saying he spoke “in a way I regret”. Absolutely disgusting dehumanization of people of color. is a relatively civilized city where you wouldn’t expect this to happen.” Ditto for Iraq (before the American attack in 2003) Afghanistan was also a peaceful and “civilised” place in 1979 before the Soviets invaded (and became the battle zone between the West and Soviet block). Utterly stupid and ill informed statement. The racist subtext: Afghans, Iraqi & Syrian lives don’t matter, for they are deemed inferior-“uncivilized.” /hC1JAkIHym Atrocities unleashed upon millions in the ME, fueled by dictators labeled as reformists in the west. His comments were met with derision and anger on social media, with many pointing out how his statements contributed to the further dehumanisation of non-white, non-European people suffering under a conflict within mainstream media.Ītrocities start with words and dehumanization.

This is a relatively civilised, relatively European – I have to choose those words carefully, too – city where you wouldn’t expect that, or hope that it’s going to happen.” Media pundits, journalists, and political figures have been accused of double standards for using their outlets to not only commend Ukraine’s armed resistance to Russian troops, but also to underlying their horror at how such a conflict could happen to a “civilised” nation.ĬBS News senior correspondent in Kyiv Charlie D’Agata said on Friday: “This isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan that has seen conflict raging for decades. On social media, the speed of such an international response – which includes the exclusion of Russia from some cultural events and treatment of it as a pariah in sports – has raised eyebrows at the lack of such a reaction to other conflicts across the world. The war has triggered swift condemnation by several countries, immediate sanctions by the United States and other countries targeting Russian banks, oil refineries, and military exports, and marathon emergency talks at the UN Security Council (UNSC). The United Nations says more than 360,000 Ukrainians have fled the country, with the majority crossing the border into neighbouring Poland. Ukraine’s health minister said at least 198 Ukrainians, including three children, have been killed so far during the invasion. Army and was imprisoned in Europe and Jack Werner, a Jewish émigré who escaped from Austria before the war and wound up fighting not against Hitler and the hated Nazis, but in the Pacific Theater.Keep reading list of 3 items list 1 of 3 Ukraine: A view from a city ‘frozen in horror’ list 2 of 3 Putin is a war criminal and should be treated as such list 3 of 3 ‘Lethal assistance’: NATO steps up small-arms supply to Ukraine end of list They will meet Shelby Westbrook, a young African American from Toledo, who became a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen Jimmie Kanaya, the son of Japanese immigrants, who served in the U.S. Viewers will hear the story of Army nurse June Wandrey, who served from the beginning of the war in North Africa to the liberation of the camps in Germany.

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This visually astonishing landmark series presents the story of World War II through the eyes of 12 Americans who experienced the war firsthand. Along the way they’ll meet a diverse group of soldiers whose wartime diaries and journals show in visceral detail what the war was really like. Using footage never before seen by most Americans–converted to HD for unprecedented clarity-viewers will experience the war as if they were actually there, surrounded by the real sights and sounds of the battlefields. Culled from thousands of hours of lost and rare color archival footage gathered from a worldwide search through basements and archives, WWII in HD will change the way the world sees this defining conflict. WWII in HD is the first-ever World War II documentary presented in full, immersive HD color.

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