Open letter to Amnesty International Secretary General Callamard
16242 Views August 08, 2022 Speeches, Statements and Interviews The Saker
by Faina Savenkova for the Saker blog
Good afternoon, Ms Callamard!
My name is Faina Savenkova. I am 13 years old and I live in Donbass. I have been a civil activist for 2 years now and I am fighting for the right of children of Donbass to live in peace. I know that your organisation is not only respected in the world but also forms an independent voice, helping to fight for human rights in the world. I have therefore decided to ask you to conduct an independent investigation and provide a legal assessment of the actions of Ukraine, its authorities and army regarding the violation of children’s rights in Donbass and the violation of children’s rights by the Ukrainian nationalist website myrotvorets.center (ukr. Peacemaker Centre).
On 4 August 2022, a 10-year-old girl was killed during shelling by the Ukrainian army in the city of Donetsk. It is very frightening and hard for me, like any resident of Donbass, to watch the killing of children. We cannot defend ourselves and at any moment we could be killed, including by banned weapons used by Ukraine. And this is the situation that most children in Donbass are in. I would very much like your organisation to express its opinion on this issue.
As for the ‘Peacemaker’ website (myrotvorets.center), on 1 June 2021, I made a video appeal to the UN Security Council with a request to stop the war and help children in Donbass to find a peaceful life, for which the Ukrainian website ‘Peacemaker’ (myrotvorets.center) included my name in its lists of enemies of Ukraine, publishing my personal data and making public my home address, social networks and passport details of my relatives. I then wrote an appeal to UN Secretary General António Guterres and UNICEF. My case received widespread publicity, after which I began to receive threats and insults.
In July 2022, the Meera Terada Foundation identified and handed over to the UN the details of 326 more children whose details had been made publicly available by myrotvorets.center. In my opinion, the ‘Peacemaker’ website (myrotvorets.center) has grossly violated not only my rights but also those of other children and put our lives in even greater danger. I therefore ask for an investigation and legal review of the work of the ‘Peacemaker’ website (myrotvorets.center) and its actions. I strongly hope that your organization will help the children whose data is on this site to protect their rights and lives.
Faina Savenkova, 08.08.2022.
Faina Savenkova
Vuki on August 08, 2022 · at 3:26 pm EST/EDT
Good luck Faina. I could be your Dida and I have been writing letters to the ombudsperson at CBC, a Canadian public broadcaster several times, asking him to do a review of the Canadian tax paid news outlet and its reporting on Ukraine. CBC constantly lies by omission, they never provide balanced reporting, and they never provide experts that disagree with their narrative. We teach critical thinking in our schools, our Charter of Rights and Freedom provides protection for our freedom of speech, but unfortunately the CBC either does not understand these freedoms or they just allow this for those that agree with them.
grune on August 08, 2022 · at 8:08 pm EST/EDT
Suggest you read the Charter.
You may be surprised to find you have no inalienable rights.
All rights are ‘subject to’, so written in the brief preamble.
Subject to government. If you study further, you may be surprised to learn Canada remains a colony of the Crown of England. Study further, and you will find No citizen owns the property s/he purchases. All lands are Crown Lands. The Crown of England owns the land and decides your Rights. Canadians are serfs.
Robert on August 09, 2022 · at 5:30 am EST/EDT
This is only partially true.
Do you know the difference between YOUR NAME (all caps) and Your Name (lower case)? YOUR NAME is a corporation that your parents were deceived into registering when you were born… you are living your entire life as a corporate entity, for which is IS true that you have no inalienable rights, only what the corporate governments allow you. Under the common law of England (which I believe is the basis of Canadian law) living men and women have DO have inalienable rights.
Start researching common law, and get your common law birth record done ASAP. In England they are already issuing car number plates, passports, marriage records, property ownership records, common law court cases, etc for living men and women. Some of these things are also possible in Australia and Canada right now too. IMO it is only a matter of time before enough people learn this, switch over to the common law system, and take back countries by lawful force.
http://www.commonlaw.earth
http://www.commonlawcourt.com
Arvy on August 09, 2022 · at 7:10 am EST/EDT
‘The Crown of England owns the land and decides your Rights.’
Don’t be so ridiculously absurd about historic constitutional leftovers and legalistic phraseology. First of all, nominal “ownership” of crown assets is vested in “Her Majesty in Right of Canada”, not the Crown of England. And, if you are so naive as to believe that nominal ownership actually has anything at all to do with some tired old individual personality residing in a rundown castle in England, your understanding and advice regarding any real practical implications are beyond help.
Every lawyer that I know will tell you that the legal system in Canada is broken. Our medial system is broken as well. Canada’s justice system and healthcare has an overrepresentation of vulnerable populations as both offenders, victims, and patients. The cause of this is due to the political system where the poor, offenders, victims, and patients are underrepresented in government. Canada’s parliamentary system of government is nothing more than a dictatorship of the minority.
As I mentioned in my comment we have certain rights, however, these rights are guaranteed subject to “reasonable limits”, which means that the rights can be curtailed in a principled manner defined by constitutional case law. For example, we have religious freedoms, but we cannot violate statute law to exercise that freedom. For example, if our religion allows for circumcision of women, the statute law would be violated and criminal process for the offender would follow.
Therefore, below the constitution, which protects us from abuses of government bodies, the highest laws are statutes passed by the federal or provincial governments within their respective jurisdictions. Unfortunately. The governments pass regulations, which in many cases change the intent of the law.
Where the law has not been defined by statute, the common law, applies in all jurisdictions except Quebec, which has its own civil code rooted in its constitutional jurisdiction over property and civil rights. Quebec, to join Canada in a confederation, wanted this process to protect her language, culture, and education.
Another legal principle which is constantly violated involves international treaties which must be incorporated into federal or provincial law, depending on the jurisdiction impacted by the treaty, before they have direct legal effect in Canada. However, historically, Canada has constantly violated this legal principle as we did with Yugoslavia, Iraq, and many other conflicts and as we are doing now in Ukraine.
And exactly how, pray tell, does any of that have any relevance whatsoever in response to my comment about silly “Crown of England ownership” nonsense.
slorter on August 08, 2022 · at 3:28 pm EST/EDT
your organisation is not only respected in the world but also forms an independent voice!
I would like to say the same but that organisation is influenced too much by the collective west ! If they want my respect they have to acquire 100% independence!!
Я on August 08, 2022 · at 3:29 pm EST/EDT
Фаина. Your letter is certainly moving, however your plight will fall on deaf ears in the so called “liberal West.” Perhaps if you become an obnoxious brat, and change your name to
Thunberg, you will be listened to.
Vercinge on August 08, 2022 · at 3:56 pm EST/EDT
It is increasingly clear and evident that the world of the last 240 years, starting with the creation of the United States in 1776, has been shaped by Anglo-Saxon Zionism in view of its New World Order, through ideologies in apparent contrast to each other, according to the Hegelian theory and consequent wars between Goym. Therefore all the Organizations, starting with the United Nations, whose Secretary is only a Zionism employee and whose land on which the Headquarters have been built, was donated by the Rockfellers (one of the main Zionist families) , were born, raised and exist always and only in view of the New (Zionist) World Order.
Everything else has always been (and is) “theater”, obviously to give the conviction to the Goy sheeples that it works and acts in favor of the member countries, while it always works and acts only in favor of Zionism, of which the United States of America are the Headquarters, which obviously plan to do and have always done what they want.
With all due respect to diplomacy, today we are at the terminus of this indecent farce that has costed the lives of tens, hundreds of millions of human beings, who are for Zionism only cannon fodder or animals and slaves to exploit. The incredible betrayal of the Minsk agreements and even before the NATO non-expansion agreements on the borders of Russia (agreements that Zionism agents American Presidents signed to better deceive their counterparts since they perfectly knew that they would never observe them), the infamous bombing on Serbia in 1999, the fake attack on the Twin Towers that costed the lives of 3,000 innocent Americans, after Jews were warned not to go to work that morning, the 2014 Maidan coup in Ukraine whose actual President is the Jewish cocaine addict Zelensky, and many other Zionist “masterpieces” are only the main examples of what Zionism can do and has done especially in the last two-three centuries.
Today Zionism finds itself unexpectedly (because it believed it had sufficiently bled with 75 years of Bolshevik Zionist Communism) in front of a Russia, which obviously has no intention at all of entering in its meat grinder to fall again in the NWO Communism, and who has the men, the skills and the means to put its back against the wall. How will this story end? It is not very difficult to imagine it.
https://vk.com/feed?section=notifications&z=video321554790_456241254%2Fa2a220934712ea6549
Chris on August 09, 2022 · at 10:38 am EST/EDT
I’m sure many here are familiar with books by Douglas Reed, Far and Wide and The Controversy of Zionism. Some of the best books about the Zionist infiltration into the U.S. government and every other aspect of it’s society. Banned for something like 20 years after his death. These are must read books in understanding the insidious nature of Zionism and their plans for the world. I’m overdue for a second reading.
Hal on August 08, 2022 · at 4:30 pm EST/EDT
Good luck with your quest, Faina Savenkova.
Unfortunately I became disillusioned with Amnesty International a few years ago. At that time I was a fully paid up member and had been for some time.
Something happened, and the fog of time has obscured exactly what that was, but suffice to say that the independence of Amnesty was called into question.
I continue to have doubts.
LordBaldric on August 08, 2022 · at 5:37 pm EST/EDT
Sweet Faina, show no respect for this “organization”.
Everything in the West is bought it all on the basis of “Quid pro Quo” This organization is financed by the west, so they always follow the western script. If they did not, we would know that they lied about Syria, Iraq and every other war that they started.
Wildsilver on August 08, 2022 · at 6:47 pm EST/EDT
All kudos to you Faina.
I’m sure you already know that most organisations in the West are compromised at the highest level, however, that doesn’t prevent change from happening, it just means the time must be right first.
That Amnesty International were able to release their recent report on Ukraine and the mainstream media widely publicised it, is a highly visible marker that something has changed.
Of course it is publicly attacked and disputed, but it’s getting attention and any attention is good at this stage.
Times are changing quickly now.
Just know you are making a difference already.
Emmett Pierce on August 08, 2022 · at 7:37 pm EST/EDT
Those of us that love peace and our Lord Jesus Christ know we are sojourners on this earth and we look for a kingdom in heaven. Our time on this earth is so short and painful to us that we desire to leave this body and receive a heavenly body where pain and suffering will be no more for eternity. The governments of this world from the beginning of time have failed. However, we hope and pray they will change for the better and they continue to get worse. Continue in hope and pray always endeavoring to persevere as one seeking the prizes God has for those that love Him.
esskumar on August 08, 2022 · at 10:03 pm EST/EDT
Is this Faina’s original letter in English or a translation? Her language is very polished. If this is her original English, then I would like to preorder her literary works for the next ten years. This is a prodigy at work.
Robert Michael Hope on August 08, 2022 · at 11:18 pm EST/EDT
I hesitate to comment. I would like to say thank you to Faina.
She is a human treasure.
Floyd on August 09, 2022 · at 2:12 am EST/EDT
I’m watching, m’lady. I have had enough of these ‘organizations ‘ which proport to do all these grand things in the name of ‘justice ‘ and ‘fairness’ but are simply a bunch of cretins offering word salads as they jostle for funds from their retarded followers who gladly fill their coffers thinking they’re ‘doing something ‘.
I’m but one man in the ‘golden years’ of my life, or so it used to be. Fifty seven approaching sixty, but yet I feel and look thirty. I have longed to leave this degenerate land that hates me for the color of my skin and the convictions of my religion. Russia calls me. Donbas needs me. Since the days of Givi and Motorola I have wanted to join the fight because I understand it is right to do so.
But now I see that I will soon be fighting on my own soil for the same cause as yours. I will make sure to protect the children always. I know the Russians are working hard to protect you. May we all be safe and victorious over our enemies in these times. And may God guide and protect us.
Alessandro on August 09, 2022 · at 4:29 am EST/EDT
No more Fear. Russians has arrived finally.
the blame-e on August 09, 2022 · at 6:45 am EST/EDT
It is a biological fact that in human beings the center of the brain that is the last to develop is the area that controls judgement — usually around 24-years-of-age.
That’s why you have to catch them when they are young. They just don’t know any better, yet. That’s why soldiers are conscripted so early. ” . . . [O]ld enough to kill but not for votin.” That’s why drivers’ licenses are granted to sixteen-year-olds (still way too early), instead of when a child is born. Got to wait at least long enough where a teenager (that is still a child) for those feet and hands can reach the controls before it’s off to the races. That’s why a college or university education is reserved for someone who is at least at the end of their teenage years: they aren’t old enough to appreciate an education. And on and on.
I am getting more than a little tired of all these “Gretas” showing up. Being introduced to the hysteria of “Climate Change” and “Peace Change;” what does a 13-year-old know about anything?
Inostranets on August 09, 2022 · at 7:48 am EST/EDT
the blame-e
Agree with your synopsis. However, Faina, as a 13 year old living where she does will doubtless have had more life experience and resulting gravitas than many adults in the West will achieve in their lifetimes. As to other 13 year olds, and indeed adults who are emotionally still in kindergarten, we indeed have a lot of these, many in positions of influence to cause great damage unfortunately. It is precisely because they have never had to personally experience the reality they create for others that we are all where we are today.
The “West” has had the luxury of many adults living as children most of their lives. Many children around the world are not afforded that luxury, and the responsibility for that is more often than not related to the adolescent and real life experience free adults running our Western “governments”, particularly the current bottom of the barrel selection.
As someone who has travelled extensively in Russia, and Ukraine, including the areas currently in turmoil, I can only wish well to all those ordinary people of whatever passport they hold who are trying to live their daily lives surrounded by chaos brought to them by the action of foreign powers with evil intent disguised as good intent.
Faina will be a full adult at 24, but is more of an adult at 13 than many in the cosy “West” with all its safety nets will ever be, and I wish her well in standing as an adult in a world where so few adults are willing to.
Tony Kaku on August 10, 2022 · at 6:34 pm EST/EDT
It should be obvious to you that this teenager lives in Donbass and knows that most of the damage and killing there is and was perpetrated by Ukrainians. Ukrainians killing Ukrainians! Try surveying middle-aged adults in your town: Who killed all those people in Donbass?
Faina has written good information that needs to be spread, especially in Japan, the US, and the UK. Adults in those countries are particularly ignorant of the US war in Ukraine.
Befree on August 09, 2022 · at 10:05 am EST/EDT
The only “rights” anyone has in this predatory world are those they protect from predators. Russians might be beginning to understand that.
paul on August 09, 2022 · at 1:16 pm EST/EDT
Banned. (s)
Faina is wasting her time.
All these organisations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the like, have zero agency, zero integrity and zero credibility.
They are bought and paid for tools of US aggression and western imperialism. They constantly lie to demonise targeted countries to justify criminal wars of aggression. There is a revolving door between them and the US State Department. Just follow the money. AI was peddling lies about fake rapes by Africans to incite the war in Libya. A lot of Africans were lynched as a result. Roth at HRW was constantly peddling fake atrocities and shilling for the bombing of Libya. Both were trying to justify Afghanistan as a war for women’s rights. Nobody should pay any attention whatsoever to anything they say.
The same applies to so called major bogus “charities.” Save The Children supplied the CIA with targeting information for drone strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Red Cross and Oxfam are very corrupt. There are well documented cases of their involvement in arms smuggling, child sex trafficking and theft of aid money on a massive scale. They are not legitimate organisations and nobody should give them a penny.
frankly on August 10, 2022 · at 1:03 am EST/EDT
For any person to find such a focused mission at such a young age gives hope to all of us who have mostly squandered our lives.
It’s easy to call it all futile and give up the fight. Holding power to account and demanding justice takes courage and strength well beyond her years.
Perfecting your skills and finding your voice is not done hiding from the world. Every fight builds a capacity for the next. How embarrassing for AI if they do not condemn an organization that promotes the hatred and death of children.
Using peace to promote hate is yet another example of a world gone mad. Thanks for showing us there is still honor. Do not let weak adults define your future.
Teresa on August 10, 2022 · at 11:29 am EST/EDT
Bravo, Faina. All this organizations and people like Guterres are trash but what matters is your intention and the example you set. Keep being the living Angel you are!