Soot-Stained Documents Reveal Firing Squad Executions in Ukraine

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http://mashable.com/2014/07/10/evidence-of-execution-trial-discovered-in-the-rubble-of-rebel-headquarters-in-ukraine/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link

Soot-Stained Documents Reveal Firing Squad Executions in Ukraine

By Christopher Miller

16 hours ago


SLOVIANSK, Ukraine – At first glance, the carefully worded, soot-stained document adorned with an official stamp looks like a weathered decree from World War II.

But dust it off and take a closer look and it becomes clear that it’s an execution order. It was signed off by the enigmatic commander-in-chief Igor Strelkov on June 17 and delivered by a military tribunal of the self-styled rebel government of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), the breakaway territory that voted to secede from Ukraine in a sham referendum in May.

Buried beneath ash and debris inside the city of Sloviansk’s security services building, or SBU, the command center of the separatist uprising that has engulfed the country since April, it convicts Alexei Borisovich Pichko, 31, of “looting to an exceptional measure of punishment – execution by firing squad – on the basis of the Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR ‘on martial law’ from June 22nd, 1941.”

The document was recovered by Mashable on July 7, two days after thousands of separatist militiamen fled Sloviansk following weeks of shelling by Ukrainian government forces and consolidated their forces in the regional center of Donetsk.

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A little background on Igor "Strelkov" Girkin:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Girkin

Apparently, he enjoys re-enacting old military conflicts. And by the looks of it, I think he's taking his role playing games a little too seriously.

To paraphrase Vladimir V. Putin, "There is no such thing as a former FSB/GRU man."