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   From: acoustic@panix.com   
      
   If it is really so, then why did Kiev's junta not spend any effort to   
   try to inform and educate the people in Ukraine's east so as to avoid   
   such an "abyss"?   
      
   Why, instead, it resorted to launch its "anti-terrorist" operation in   
   the region, further antigonizing the local population?   
      
     "I think after this shooting a lot of people will be afraid of our   
     government and I think they will ask for help from Russia," said   
     Nadin. Her 70-year-old grandmother was in shock and kept repeating   
     obsessively: "We had all this shooting without any warning. They   
     should have warned us. They didn't say anything to us."   
     http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/06/kiev-is-losin   
   -the-war-for-hearts-and-minds-and-territory-in-eastern-ukraine.html   
      
   It doesn't sound like the people's interests have ever been very much   
   on the junta's mind, does it?   
      
   What the junta says and what it does do not add up, do they?   
      
   lo yeeOn   
      
   http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27360146   
      
   . . .   
      
   On Saturday, Ukraine's interim President Olexandr Turchynov admitted   
   many in eastern Ukraine supported the pro-Russian militants, but   
   warned that the referendums were "a step towards the abyss".   
      
   "Those who advocate self-determination do not understand that this   
   will mean the total collapse of the economy, of social programmes, and   
   of life in general for the majority of people in these regions," he   
   said.   
      
   The EU and US have also condemned the referendums, amid fears that   
   Ukraine could be sliding to civil war.   
      
   . . .   
      
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