Stéphane Bussard
Burgenstock
Published on June 16, 2024 at 7:47 p.m. / Modified on June 16, 2024 at 7:51 p.m.
They all have a dark look which contrasts with the sun which ends up shining on the heights of the Bürgenstock. They seem to carry on their faces the burden of a wavering humanity. For them, the war in Ukraine is not a diplomatic issue. It is a deep wound that time, they hope, will one day heal. Vladyslav Buriak, short hair, jacket, was still a 16-year-old child when he was kidnapped by Russian forces. He remembers it like it was yesterday: “It was April 8, 2022. The Russians kept me in captivity for three months. I was first in a police station with other prisoners, then in prison. The task that the Russian forces forced me to perform was frightening. I had to clean the room where they tortured Ukrainian prisoners. They were trying to break them, to take away their desire to live. The means used? Electric shocks, needles placed under fingernails and connected to an electric wire, sexual violence and rape, use of a taser on the genitals.
“He lost the desire to live”
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