Bernard-Henri Lévy discusses the Ukrainian crisis and the danger that Putin represents for democracy and Europe.
It has been a year, almost to the day, since the revolution in Ukraine overthrew the corrupt, tyrannical, and, in its last days, murderous regime of Viktor Yanukovych. To mark the anniversary of that event, President Petro Poroshenko invited me to the Kiev National Opera to perform my play.
If, in 200 days, your suggestions and proposals are persuasive enough to convince the world to invest massively in the birth of the new Ukraine, you will have helped to make Ukraine another Poland or another Czech Republic. You will have heeded the call of your brothers and sisters and opened to them the doors of Europe.
The following is the English-language translation of a Bernard-Henri Levy speech delivered on April 16 at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris as part of an international colloquium entitled The Second World War in Russian Political Discourse.
Petro Poroshenko, the man who stood up to Putin, deserves better than to be fired at history’s whim.
Have we been so anesthetized by containment that we ignore the death of a doctor on the front lines, in violation of the laws of war?
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Bernard-Henri Lévy’s cri-de-coeur about the carnage in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war of 1992–95. The film depicts the genocide suffered by the Bosnians, the silence of Western countries, and the determination of the Bosnians to resist. The film was featured at the Cannes Film Festival.
Over the past fifty years, renowned intellectual BHL has reported extensively on human rights abuses around the world. This book follows the Lévy into eight international hotspots—in Nigeria; Syrian and Iraqi Kurdistan; Ukraine; Somalia; Bangladesh; Lesbos; Libya; and Afghanistan—that have escaped global attention or active response.
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