Today's haiku, or tanga, is to be a tribute to the brave and innocent souls who died on the Malaysian Airlines flight over eastern Ukraine. I recently posted a tanka about the crime, (Malaysian Airlines tanka) and I think it is most fitting to write a tribute in a sensitive haiku or tanka.
There is much about this tragedy that upsets and bothers me, and I like many dearly hope that the murderers are caught, but I sense and see little chance of this happening. I am distraught and I would say disgusted by the official Russian position, and by attempts from various persons to politicise the tragedy where they can, including, unfortunately by OSCE members who arrived on the site.
The Russian government has lost my trust and respect. I was appalled by John Kerry and his team - Nuland et al, in the Ukraine, specifically in his attempt to portray the Crimean Tartars as a 'wandering lost tribe' in a sickening parody all too soon forgotten, but here we witness the Russian government absolutely and cynically not at all interested in who was guilty but more interested in covering up where they can.
All sides are guilty of excessive nationalism, and president Obama using the opportunity to admonish the European governments for maintaining links with the Russian regime was crass and unnecessary. However, European governments should have leaders who get off their backsides, and send their best men and women to rattle the teeth of the absurd idiots who think they have the right to shoot down airliners, in order to get the accident investigation going, and the Ukrainian government needs to apologise for their gross misjudgment in allowing the eastern Ukrainian airspace to remain open.
Meanwhile, lest we forget, Israel used the opportunity to launch a ground invasion of Palestine. 300 Palestinian dead and rising. Israeli apologists will be given short thrift here. I have personally seen what goes on, and know the real objective. As many reporters have, and at last, increasingly U.S. reporters have too.
in loving memory
innocent lives taken
a sun sets slowly here
elsewhere charred remains
lie under a smouldering sky
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