Published on Sep 12, 2014
Ukraine isn't the First! Who is Next? On Monday, September 8th, 2014 at 12 noon Polish Gazette Club
Ottawa with EuroMaidan Ottawa, in participation with the
Ukrainian National Federation Ottawa-Gatineau, the Baltic
Federation in Canada and the Central and Eastern European
Council held a Rally on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada. ![]() The rally was to raise awareness of the ongoing invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and demonstrate that Ukraine is not the first victim of Russian oppression and will not be the last.
Protesters called on the Government of Canada to provide more bilateral assistance to Ukraine, including decisive sectoral economic sanctions, particularly against the financial, defense and energy sectors; increased political isolation of Mr. Putin; and real military support, including arms, vehicles, surveillance equipment and other support for the Ukrainian armed forces to defend sovereign Ukrainian territory against Russia’s proxy war and recent direct invasion. Honourable David Kilgour, well known human rights activist and
former Parliamentarian said in his speech: “….if Ukraine become
a Nova-Russia and the West collapses, it will not be because of
Russia’s physical strength but because of our mental weakness”. Every day dozens of people are killed in Ukraine. The war has turned into Russia’s open aggression against the nation that half a year ago has chosen independence. Russian aggression in Ukraine is not the Moscow’s first military action in recent years. In 2008, Russian tanks rolled into Georgia trying to overthrow the government and to subdue the whole country. In the end, only a part of the Georgia’s territory was seized. The Kremlin was stopped due to the international action - mainly due to decisive steps of the five Central European leaders brought to Tbilisi by the Polish president Lech Kaczynski. At that time, Moscow realized that in the center of Europe was growing a great power which was able to stop imperial ambitions of the Kremlin.
Flying to Smolensk, Russia on April 10th, 2010, president
Kaczynski was drawn into a deadly trap. Along with a hundred
representatives of the |