German Bundestag, April 6, 2022, Plenarprotokoll 20/27, pp.
2274-2275.
Frau President. Dear colleagues. Right honorable ladies and
gentlemen.
Butscha was a peaceful small town directly outside the Kiev
gates with a large lake and many greens. In the pre-revolutionary time, the
Kiev bourgeoisie rode there in the Sommerfrische,
as would then have been said in this country. This past is now no longer
recalled; since until a few days ago corpses lined the streets of Butscha, as
during the Holodomor, the Communist genocide of the Ukrainians.
Naturally in every war can not only the aggressor but even
so the defender commit war crimes. We of the AfD demand a two-stage inquiry,
initially as quickly as possible by the three experts named last week for the
Ukraine by the UN human rights council – the Norwegian chief investigator of
this commission already led the Rwanda tribunal – and as a second stage, in
case the commission attained corresponding results, a war crimes tribunal, as
for the former Yugoslavia, which conducts a complete clarification without
regard to the warring parties.
What now however is available are satellite photos and
reports of witnesses. Tatiana Vladimirovna, an old lady from Butscha, told of
how her husband was killed: Three soldiers, one of them a Chechen, stormed into
their dwelling, abused and carried him away. The Chechen threatened her with a
beating in case she resisted. She sought after her husband for days. There was
no information at the Russian army. A friend finally told her there were
corpses in a cellar of a neighbor’s house. Tatiana recognized her husband only by
his gym shoes, so deformed were the bodies, and she needed to bury him in
common with friends; since the Russian troops did not once trouble themselves
to toss some dirt on the bodies.
The inspection prima facie – that is, at first appearance –
speaks for a clear culpability of one, specific side. And should this prove to
be true, then consequences must be drawn from this gruesome business.
Questioned as to the background of such crimes, the eastern
European historian Jörg Baberowski declared, cite:
The Russian army’s soldiers are deficiently supplied, suffer hunger, freeze. They are tyrannized by their officers. People who are exposed to such treatment are besides themselves, as soon as an opportunity presents itself, to treat other people exactly so…
Butscha testifies to this. On March 31, the Russian armed
forces withdrew. On April 1, Ukrainian army occupied the town. The first video
from Butscha, still widely unnoticed by the western media, emerges on the same
day and American satellite photos meanwhile show that the corpses lay there for
days. Despite this, on Russian state television it was asserted all was
arranged. Corpses were simply not the corpses displayed by the first day’s
first photos following the re-occupation.
The Russian propaganda was also fed by German state
broadcasting. The Bund’s fact checker, Georg Restle, who just recently praised
Putin as a Realpolitiker, now
explains to us that the Ukrainians had secured no access to Butscha for
journalists. In that regard, for weeks the ARD simply had no reporter of its
own in Kiev, despite compulsory fees in a sum of billions.
The CDU now in opposition suddenly discovers its spirit of
resistance. Their chairman Angela Merkel was only just concerned that Germany
was in some way dependent on Russian gas – and in fact with her heedless left-green
withdrawal from nuclear.
And it is also a legacy of Merkel when Chancellor Scholz
initially agrees, as the recent European government chief, to Russia’s partial
disconnection from SWIFT, even after Victor Orban whom you, dear colleagues of
the Union, have for years denigrated as a friend of Putin.
Exemplary of our government’s connection with the Ukraine
war is a scene from the human rights committee which I witnessed two weeks ago.
The colleague Engelhardt of the SPD complained in regards a briefing that the
trans-women of Ukraine are treated not as women but as men and the defense duty
applies to them. The comrade seriously asked whether the Federal government is
committed to that the Ukrainians also recognize trans-women as women. This
unfortunately is no joke.
What the Ukraine now needs is not lessons in gender matters;
it is the last thing they now need. What the Ukraine needs is a strong,
militant Europe of fatherlands.
Many thanks.
[trans: tem]
