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Bucha<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n by Lisa Kelly<\/em><\/p>\n The man who confronted the tank captured A body lies in the street. A camera shot Calling a war, a special military operation takes us back All these holes swastika on a woman\u2019s body. Raped, killed, and burned. If only the far-right was not on the up: Bucha citizens did not give up their right to live whole Bucha by Lisa Kelly The man who confronted the tank captured by drone footage. His hands held up.His wife in the front seat, his child in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":516,"featured_media":14503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[2551],"class_list":["post-14505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
by drone footage. His hands held up.
His wife in the front seat, his child in the back.
What\u2019s next is blurred, what\u2019s later is burned.
The evidence remains. Pepper holes
of bullets in car doors. Shot after shot.<\/p>\n
of hands tied behind a back. Another victim captured,
wrists bound with white cloth. Bullet holes
fired in backs of heads. Who would stand up
to their oppressor? Images of war crimes burned
in the mind \u2013 revealed once the occupiers drew back.<\/p>\n
to calling a publicity stunt a wildlife campaign: a tiger shot
with a tranquiliser gun, a Siberian tiger that burned
brightly for a photo opportunity \u2013 captured
and over-sedated. It died for this. Its time up
when he got what he wanted. Amber eyes darkening holes.<\/p>\n
impossible to piece together, to bring back
meaning. No let up
in uncovering mass graves, basements where citizens were tortured, shot.
What they did\u2026so many people were killed\u2026just for nothing. Have we captured
enough eye-witness accounts? A burned<\/p>\n
Another generation falling through holes.
More cities like Bucha, more cities captured
with the same horrors unfolding. We roll the film back
and forward to where the past and future show the same shot.
Yet, there are denials, claims this is all made up.<\/p>\n
Putin, Orban, Vucic, Le Pen, Trump, Johnson. Civil rights burned
as they stoke the flames of nationalism. The cheap shots
at immigrants; the illiberalism; the bribes; the gaping holes
in their accounts. Always the fight back.
Complacency is the route to being captured.<\/p>\n
lives. After Bucha burned, they took their city back.
For every despot\u2019s shot, the people\u2019s spirit uncaptured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"