Mariupal Massacre-video evidence clearly shows US supported Right Sector units killed innocent civilians. Last edited Sat May 10, 2014, 12:07 PM – Edit history (1) Extensive video evidence proving that US supported “troops” (which most likely are a Right Sector unit that has been merged into the new Ukrainian army) are gunning the people of the city of Mariupol down in the street. Local citizens with their hands in the air are shot in numerous instances. Graphic warning: go to the 1:50 mark in the video to clearly see the citizens have their hands in the air. http://youtu.be/QD3D_czXO7U Graphic Warning: Murders start taking place at the 1:50 mark. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b0c_1399671187 The Independent UK (one of Britain’s most respected papers covered this massacre in full yesterday. The British press which has, like the US press been largely silent on the atrocities is waking up. It also received extensive coverage on Channel 4 and ITV who have reporters on the ground in Mariupol. Link to independent article; http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-crisis-bloody-assault-in-mariupol-dashes-hopes-of-avoiding-civil-war-9347972.html Excerpt: That was Mariupol after a day of bloody strife which slid Ukraine further towards civil war. The country’s caretaker government can be accused of trying to blow out flickering hopes of peace by launching a military operation on one of the most revered anniversaries in the Russian-speaking half of the country, the commemoration of victory over Nazi Germany. The military action is accompanied by stridently aggressive rhetoric from politicians in Kiev who are crowing about the numbers of “terrorists” killed and threatening further lethal punishment. This second video shows the same scene, that ITV reported on, from another angle, of a man clearly being shot with his hands in the air. Murder takes place at the 48 second mark. Warning graphic content. ITV news lead correspondent James Mates provides on the ground video footage showing the people of Mariupol in extremely large numbers attempting to stop the new Ukrainian military from taking over their town and killing them. Even he points out that what the new government is doing (on May 9th of all days)…is, and I quote, “a curious way of convincing people they have a future within Ukraine” http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-05-09/mariupol-seethes-with-anger-after-a-day-of-deadly-clashes/ I point out once again that this is what the US government, under our current president, is backing and financing. This is what Jen Pseki is deliberately ignoring when she’s speaking on that microphone each day. It is disgusting and disturbing that on the day the US, EU, Russia and many other countries of the world commemorate the victory over fascism……this is what we are now supporting. And equally disturbing that DU is relatively quiet on this issue. I see very few post views on this issue and it makes me wonder how the website that helped lead the charge against the Iraq War is primarily ignoring this…..what the fuck is going on at this site? Additional video’s of large local crowds of civilians trying to stop tanks from entering their city. http://youtu.be/IiQub6ONAVk Attempt to stop tank in street. http://youtu.be/pDMB9n18gb8 Thousands take to the streets to keep the military out. 8:35 second video showing another angle on massacre outside the beer hut that ITV covered in their reporting. http://youtu.be/f2DvXkblJr0 Shootings/murders takes place at the 7 minute mark. I am also including the recent Salon article which points out the hypocrisy and media silence that is taking place in the United States- as this article highlights what we Americans are condoning due to our misguided Cold war perception of Russia…it’s a very important piece that every DU’er who stood against the Iraq War should read. http://www.salon.com/2014/05/07/samantha_powers_brazen_hypocrisy_media_swallows_propaganda_but_heres_the_truth_about_ukraine/ On a very worrying note….the first video I had posted on this story directly above was found by me 55 minutes after it was posted on you tube. You can check my edit history and see that I had to swap it out with the same video from Liveleak as it was removed from You Tube within an hour of it going online. Why would that video be taken down? This makes me even more worried about the people who are posting the truth online….possibly they are being forced to remove them. Why else would someone remove such an important video? That is highly troubling. Nonetheless I found a copy of the exact same video at Liveleak.