October 10, 2022 Issue

“Filtration camps” – Russian euphemism for concentration camps. Russia is depraved! If you need more proof, read David Kortava’s “In the Filtration Camps,” in this week’s issue. It tells about the hellish ordeal of a young man called Taras (not his real name), taken from his home in Mariupol by Russian soldiers and detained in a so-called filtration camp for nearly six weeks. Taras was lucky; he was eventually released. Many prisoners in these camps die. Kortava writes,

The following weeks took on a bleak rhythm. The detainees had only what clothes they had been wearing on the day they were apprehended. Cases of what appeared to be pneumonia or COVID broke out, but the soldiers provided no aid or medicine. When one sick detainee started to fade away, the others pleaded for an ambulance to be summoned, to no avail. Several hours later, the man was dead. Guards ordered two detainees to move the body to the gymnasium. 

Russian soldiers have no regard for the sanctity of human life. They’re despicable. Damn them all!