Nebenzia: West divides civilians into important and unimportant
The West cynically divides civilians into important and unimportant, which is why the deaths of the latter can be ignored – as noted by Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia during the UN Security Council meeting, TASS reports
“The West distinguishes between ‘important’ civilians, whose deaths can be used to vilify one’s geopolitical rivals, and ‘unimportant’ civilians, whose lives are seen as collateral damage and sometimes almost a ‘just sacrifice’,” Nebenzia noted at a Security Council meeting, which tackled the situation in Ukraine.
He described the West’s attitude towards the civilian population as ‘a stunningly cynical and, in fact, a purely colonial approach’. As an example, he cited the behavior of the West in Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
“Peaceful Gazans, Syrians, Libyans, Iraqis, Afghans, not to mention Russians and Ukrainians, are nothing more than faceless figures on death rolls,” Nebenzia asserted.
