Originally from Buryatia, a region on the border between Mongolia and Siberia, many witnesses have blamed them for looting, raping and torture
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KHERSON OBLAST – «These are their bodies». We told it here after seeing six bodies of soldiers killed not more than a few days ago in front of the line of fire near the village of Vysokopillya.
Looking at their faces – or rather what’s left of them – it was obvious that they had almond-shaped eyes and that they were obviously not Russian.
Very young boys, certainly under the age of 20, were killed trying to storm the Ukrainian trenches in broad daylight. “They are Buryatia,” declared the commander of the Ukrainian armed forces, with whom we were embedded at the front, using the expression Ukrainians use to describe those who are from Buryatia, a region on the border between Mongolia and Siberia. From the testimonies of the displaced persons from the Kherson region, which we have related here and here, it appears that it is the “Buryats” who plunder, destroy, rape, torture and kill the Ukrainians in the occupied territories. And the same was told by those who survived the Bucha massacres.
Leaving aside the numerous controversies that have arisen over the Bucha case, it should be emphasized that in order for the Kremlin to invade Ukraine, it must recruit men and “fresh workers” to fight without asking too many questions and without paying too much to become.
The “Buryats” – in Italian diction – are a Mongolian people living between Russia (90%), Mongolia (9%) and China (1%). They represent the largest ethnic minority in Siberia, but most now live in the Republic of Buryatia, the Republic of the Russian Federation, established in 1994.
After the annexation of Buryatia by Russia, the Buryat culture succumbed to the influences of Tibetan Buddhism and the Orthodox Christian Church, and the Buryats of the regions west of Lake Baikal and Olkhon River (Buryats of Irkutsk) underwent a process of “Russification”. Which led to her abandoning the practices of nomadicism and itinerant farming.
Traditionally, the Buryats are part of the Russian army. And already in 1766 they were organized into a special force (like the Cossacks) of 4 regiments, with which in 1851 they became part of the Cossack troops from beyond Lake Baikal.
Poor, very poor, with 17.9 percent of the population living below the poverty line according to the latest available data, it’s no wonder young Buryat men – even very young ones like the ones we’ve seen lying on the ground – become cannon fodder have become for Moscow. Nor is it surprising that when they land on the ground – perhaps without even knowing why – they indulge in the atrocities and “dirty work” that a section of the Russian military would rather avoid, with fear of an international one dish to land tomorrow.
It should also be emphasized that the Buryats are certainly not the only ethnic minority among the Russian armed forces. In addition to the Chechens, there are reports of soldiers from Abkhazia, Dagestan, Ossetia.
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