welcome to tuna cheki africa true story the intensifying conflict in ukraine has raised
the issue of racism not only in the country but europe as a whole since the post-world
war ii period national liberation movements and independent countries in africa have developed
solid diplomatic and economic relations with the former soviet union and today's russia
federation it is this history which underlies the recent refusal of numerous african governments
and mass organizations to side with the united states and the north atlantic treaty organization
in its effort to encircle russia in order to leave it as a diminished state dependent
upon the dominant imperialist nations globally this refusal was shown also when the un general
assembly recently voted to suspend russia from its human rights council following allegations
of war crimes by kremlin troops in ukraine but african diplomats did not widely back the move
compared to the vote on the resolution to condemn the invasion that was held in early
march more african countries abstained and voted against the decision this time
one reason africa decided to widely abstain from the vote is seen in the immediate aftermath of
the beginning of russia's special military operation in ukraine with a racist treatment
of approximately 16 000 african students as well as thousands of others from asia
and the middle east gaining international news coverage these descriptions and news reports
saw ukrainian refugees being positioned as more civilian and superior to refugees from africa
and middle east the coverage strongly implied that blue-eyed ukrainian lives were worth more
valuable and deserving than the lives of millions of others who seek refuge during this conflict
africans were denied admission into trains refused food provided by ukrainians while attempting to
seek refuge in neighboring countries such as poland and romania these incidents should not
have been surprising considering the expansion and institutionalization of fascist and nazi ideology
among those governing the ukrainian state since the u.s backed the euro median coup of february
2014. recently president vladimir zelensky of ukraine reached out to the african union for
support in his nation's war with russia calling his senegalese counterpart marquis sal to discuss
the crisis zelinski said he provided an update to sal the current president of the eu on the
ukrainian struggle against russia which has shown hypocrisy and huge double standards from ukraine
the first person accounts of the african students who are more than willing to speak out about what
had been done to them in ukraine had to be swiftly suppressed in the western media as exaggerated
news in this current crisis white supremacists such as right sector and the azov brigades
battalions have been training ukrainian civilians for guerrilla-style combat with the russian
military research suggests racism and xenophobia varies with the relationship between hostile
government policies and anti-migrant sentiments of the population in short the problem of racism
is not just ukraine or eastern europe it is all over europe this has been seen through global news
coverage portraying the ukrainian refugees as more life-deserving than their african counterparts
thus demonstrating an example of everyday racism reports recently surfaced that african students
who have fled ukraine have been detained by eu border authorities in what has been condemned as
discriminatory ukraine residents of african origin who have crossed the border to escape the war
have been placed in closed facilities with some having been there for a number of weeks
africans have been attending school in what is now ukraine since the 1920s and in 1957 the soviet
union now russia began openly recruiting africans for college and professional schools the soviet
union intended to improve relations with african countries and show off their expanding diplomacy
to the rest of the world with all this the treatment of african refugees in ukraine left many
questions and answered if this is what happens in public light what do these students face on
a daily basis in the country when the world is not watching following the reports of mistreatment and
racial profiling of africans in ukraine african governments evacuated their nationals although
others are still stuck in ukraine and many held in european detention centers for reasons unknown
most of the evacuees were medical students hoping to finish their studies some important
lessons to take from the russia-ukraine conflict is first that no single ethnic racial or religious
group has a great capacity for civilization personal dignity or citizenship than others
second europe is still a very racist society and racism is ingrained deep in their culture thirdly
all international institutions such as the united nations world bank world health organization world
trade organization you name it our western vessels used to protect the current status
quo of white supremacy and finally at the end of the day africans are alone in the struggle for
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