Russian Foreign Ministry blasts Western organizations for suppressing death of Red Cross worker in east Ukraine

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The body of a victim killed by recent shelling lies near the Red Cross office in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Oct. 2, 2014.

On October 2, a Swiss foreign national working for the Red Cross in Donetsk, Laurent DuPasquier, was killed by a shell fired by Kiev forces at the ICRC's headquarters in Donetsk, prompting outrage in Russia, but barely a whisper in the West. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has responded, saying:

Yet, although it has been five days, we have not heard any official explanations from Kiev concerning the circumstances of his death. The killing of a member of an influential international humanitarian organisation is being suppressed. We do not see any real action being taken to find and punish the culprits.

Noting that "several international organisations", including the EU, have ignored the fact that the ICRC office was located in self-defence territory, and "therefore shelled by the Ukrainian army", the ministry rightly questions the objectivity and nature of these organizations. The ministry concluded by saying "We insist on a thorough independent investigation of the tragedy."

The U.S. White House has issued a lame statement calling on "all parties" in Ukraine's conflict "to protect the civilians in their midst and hold accountable those who engage in the indiscriminate use of force." No mention of the fact that they only ones using indiscriminate force are Kiev's forces, who bomb residential areas daily.

As we at Sott.net predicted soon after news of the killing, the death of DuPasquier, a western European humanitarian worker, has not sparked any outrage in the West. It's just another sign of the cynical hypocrisy of Western leaders in general. The brutal murder of a few U.S./UK journalists and humanitarian workers in Syria is enough to prompt a new war. But the death of thousands of civilians in Ukraine gets nothing but support from the war whores in Washington and Brussels.

Interestingly, Kiev has been following the model set by the IDF every step of the way (and the western media response has mimicked their typical response to IDF atrocities: silence or excuses). Labeling civilians terrorists, shelling them, torturing and killing women and children, now apparently targeting humanitarian institutions -- Kiev has even even taken a page out of U.S.-created ISIS: beheading. But ask your average brainwashed westerner and they'll tell you the Ukrainian army are the good guys, and evil Putin is stirring up rebellion in the east.