Aubade for Bucha

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Aubade for Bucha

“There were piles of corpses lying here, without

arms, without legs, without skulls.”

--Resident of Bucha.

Bucha,

usually a sleepy suburb

of Kyiv, with a population

of about 30,000,

was occupied by the Russians

for several weeks.

After they pulled out recently,

the world witnessed 

what they left behind;

the stuff of macabre and

terrifying nightmares.

First noticed from satellite,

then verified in person,

at the intersection of

Yablonska and Voksal streets,

a stone’s throw from the train station,

a dozen bodies lie in the street

for three weeks--no one

was allowed to touch them.

These were mafia-style executions,

head shots while on their knees

with their hands tied behind them,

and they were beaten and tortured

before they were killed.

Later they discovered mass graves,

with hundreds of bodies in them,

and proof of cremation of hundreds more,

as well as land mines being planted

around the grave sites.

Women and children and the elderly

were all murdered in their homes,

before the soldiers looted.

Some had their tongues cut out

for uttering anti-Russian epithets.

Women were singled out,

and raped in front of their children,

then striped naked and killed,

some beheaded.

Yes, history is full of such atrocities,

but the Russian prove to be more

barbarous than even the Nazis,

or the Japanese bayonetting babies,

or the Cossacks killing Jews.

Sadly, this horror continues, and 

it is feared that this incident will

only be the beginning of the war crimes

we will discover later.

Glenn Buttkus

Posted over at d'Verse Poet's Pub MTB