Refilwe M.’s Post

As a Civil War Paths fellow I wrote a short piece on women fighters and their role in receiving external support from Western states! You can find the link below: 📣 ⬇

I am happy to announce that I have just published an article in The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. In this piece, bring my own personal experiences growing up in Saipan and teaching for the U.S. Air Force Culture and Language Center to bear in exploring U.S. military basing in Guam and Okinawa--what the U.S. military gets right, what it gets wrong, and what future options are for creating a more inclusive and secure system. https://lnkd.in/eNUTmg4y

SAYING NO TO NAZI-COMMUNISM From 2017 to 2022, Piguet served as OSCE regional director-“Team Leader” in Ukraine. His task was to coordinate the work of 25 observers who were investigating potential factors of instability on Ukrainian territory, following the Russian invasion of Donbass and Crimea. Piguet began his work here aimed at verifying the alleged fascist or Nazi infiltrations denounced by Moscow to justify the aggression that began in 2014. “I delved into the Ukrainian social fabric until I reached the highest levels of Praviy Sektor, a nationalist organization banned as 'extremist' by Yanukovych's pro-Russian government, which later became a political party. For five years, I wrote dozens of reports in which I explained having met people who were extremely democratic, open and far from being fascist. The more I delved into the organization, the more I understood that the image of Praviy Sektor given by the Russians was far from true. » David Piguet reveals that the OSCE's response to his reports has become increasingly cold. “I realized that finding neo-Nazi signs had become an obsession for some people. My reports were received with ever greater coldness, until even the attitude towards me became more detached. Little by little, I realized that Russia had managed to penetrate the OSCE, using missions like the one I had carried out to insinuate that Ukraine was a Nazi country." Piguet reports noticing that all incidents against ethnic minorities allegedly linked to ultranationalists turned out to be linked to Russian interests in Ukraine. Piguet observes that the most recent example of Nazi-style persecutory attitudes – both towards Ukrainians and LGBT communities – is rather that of Russia. “At the start of the full-scale war, I understood that my place was here. As the OSCE hurriedly evacuated the country after the invasion, I resigned from that organization and joined the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps. I helped them resist, like my grandfather, against the Nazis. This is how I myself became an international volunteer for Duk-Praviy Sektor." David Piguet inspired the creation of “Fuvi” (Ukrainian fund of international volunteers). “In collaboration with our lawyer friend Nicolas Ligneul, the association works to help Ukrainian victims of war crimes to file complaints with the International Criminal Court: we have already officially filed more than 15 cases and 200 others are being processed . Thousands more will arrive thanks to the vast network of delegates developed by Fuvi in Ukraine, trained by Nicolas Ligneul. Our task is to help these people who are victims of the bombs but also of disinformation. Russian propaganda presents Ukraine as a land of Nazis, even in the most important international institutions, when – as Bandera claimed – these people are victims of both Nazism and Communism. » https://lnkd.in/es22vP2p

SAYING NO TO NAZI-COMMUNISM From 2017 to 2022, Piguet served as OSCE regional director-“Team Leader” in Ukraine. His task was to coordinate the work of 25 observers who were investigating potential factors of instability on Ukrainian territory, following the Russian invasion of Donbass and Crimea. Piguet began his work here aimed at verifying the alleged fascist or Nazi infiltrations denounced by Moscow to justify the aggression that began in 2014. “I delved into the Ukrainian social fabric until I reached the highest levels of Praviy Sektor, a nationalist organization banned as 'extremist' by Yanukovych's pro-Russian government, which later became a political party. For five years, I wrote dozens of reports in which I explained having met people who were extremely democratic, open and far from being fascist. The more I delved into the organization, the more I understood that the image of Praviy Sektor given by the Russians was far from true. » David Piguet reveals that the OSCE's response to his reports has become increasingly cold. “I realized that finding neo-Nazi signs had become an obsession for some people. My reports were received with ever greater coldness, until even the attitude towards me became more detached. Little by little, I realized that Russia had managed to penetrate the OSCE, using missions like the one I had carried out to insinuate that Ukraine was a Nazi country." Piguet reports noticing that all incidents against ethnic minorities allegedly linked to ultranationalists turned out to be linked to Russian interests in Ukraine. Piguet observes that the most recent example of Nazi-style persecutory attitudes – both towards Ukrainians and LGBT communities – is rather that of Russia. “At the start of the full-scale war, I understood that my place was here. As the OSCE hurriedly evacuated the country after the invasion, I resigned from that organization and joined the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps. I helped them resist, like my grandfather, against the Nazis. This is how I myself became an international volunteer for Duk-Praviy Sektor." David Piguet inspired the creation of “Fuvi” (Ukrainian fund of international volunteers). “In collaboration with our lawyer friend Nicolas Ligneul, the association works to help Ukrainian victims of war crimes to file complaints with the International Criminal Court: we have already officially filed more than 15 cases and 200 others are being processed . Thousands more will arrive thanks to the vast network of delegates developed by Fuvi in Ukraine, trained by Nicolas Ligneul. Our task is to help these people who are victims of the bombs but also of disinformation. Russian propaganda presents Ukraine as a land of Nazis, even in the most important international institutions, when – as Bandera claimed – these people are victims of both Nazism and Communism. » https://lnkd.in/es22vP2p