justice for each victim – v2

For now, they fight, together,
for survival, for freedom,
for their right to exist,
against the onslaught,
the struggle, united, genocide,
Russian terror in the streets…
 
We raise a prayer for peace, rising,
for these good and brave people,
not just to survive but to thrive,
to rise from the rubble, the ashes,
of Russia’s genocide, to rise,
justice for each victim,
for every war crime…
 
For now, they are on a journey,
united, rising from the rubble,
the ashes of destruction
together they will be made whole
as people, as a people united,
in the cause of justice,
never forgetting their evil,
while any of them live…
 
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Edited May 19, 2025
justice for each victim – v2
 
April 30, 2025
justice for each victim
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/justice-for-each-victim.html
The tension between remembering individual war crimes
committed by Russia and the enormity of their war crimes
across 11 years of war and genocide…
Inspired by the attack on Russian General Yaroslav Moskalik in Moscow and
reporting of torture, mutilation and murder of journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna,
on top of the three years of genocide, terror and destruction by Russia and
the video of Rada Security Committee Secretary Kostenko, about the
long reach of Ukrainian intelligence services…
April 30, 2025
A well of remembrance
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-well-of-remembrance.html
Edited/ renamed April 29, 2025
They must each be avenged
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/they-must-each-be-avenged.html
 
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