Saturday, April 25, 2009
Yevchenko Veterans' Sanatorium, Odessa, Ukraine
Today I interviewed Bohdan Taras Kondratiuk. He told me his story, and what he had seen during the outbreak in Ukraine. The military in his country, if you could even call it a military, was falling apart, and or, scarcley seen. The outbreak in the main city had overwhelmed the forces there, and refugees were retreating to the other side of the rivers that ran through the major suburbs of the city. There were key bridges that were used for the retreat. Bohdan told me that he was set up on one of the bridges while people were passing, when jet fighters flew over and dropped a bomb on the refugees, instantly killing all of them. The only good this did was it showed who was infected because they didn't die, but was this really worth the cost? Should these types of measures be taken in order to stop the spread of infection?
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This is such a shame because the military always has been and should still be the comfort to where you live. They are what gets you the land and the so called freedom to do what you do every day. If the military (army) was hardly seen like it is, the people start to lose confidence and flee away. With Bohdan’s job being able to watch the fighter jets bomb massive groups called refugees traveling away and across the river to see whether or not they were the dead is a prime example of the carelessness. If they are losing faith as a result of the military’s choices and actions like I said, they run and attempt to find a better place. If they would realize this and set up a standard, these people could have a chance to live and the dead would be easier to spot after this. So my thoughts are that what they did was unjustified and should not have been performed as actions on these innocent people.
I think that it was necessary to do this because even if one infected person were to get in then everyone would get infected. in order to stop an infection the military cannot save everyone.
I agree compleatly with you. I thought it was dumb to just kill everyone. Many more people could have survived if they just gave the military some dogs to look for infections.
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