“Victims are mourned depending on the aggressor”

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“Under Obama, the US was just as cruel in Mosul as Putin. Nobody was left to mourn the dead. US planes killed them all,

” Boechat tweeted, recalling how he had stumbled over body parts while reporting from the devastated Iraqi city six months after the war there. “Unfortunately, cruelty, barbarity and injustice aren’t unique to Putin and the Russians,” the Brazilian journalist concluded. “Victims are mourned depending on the aggressor. [But] they are all victims: civilians who are Ukrainian, Iraqi, Syrian, Afghan.”

 「戦争の犠牲者たちが弔われるかは、加害者が何者であるかによって決まる。だが彼らはみんな、犠牲者なのだ。ウクライナ人、イラク人、シリア人、アフガニスタン人。一般市民たちはみんな、犠牲者だ」

欧米ジャーナリズムの構図はいつもいっしょで、慰安婦問題でも日本軍が加害者だ大騒ぎ、米軍、韓国軍が加害者だとだまりこくる。

可愛そうなのは被害者、特に誰にも注目されなかった被害者・・・非常に残酷な仕打ち