Estonian kids post kill-a-Russian prank on Internet
Published: 22 October, 2010, 17:46
Edited: 23 October, 2010, 14:53
TAGS: Children, Conflict, Crime, Internet, Mass media, Baltic states
A group of underage Estonians have posted a homemade video on the YouTube channel in which they “killed” a Russian of their own age. Estonian law enforcers had to intervene, getting YouTube to remove the video.
The news was reported by the Delfi website, which specializes in news from Baltic nations. According to the website, the video featured several children aged ten to 12 who were killing another child, described as a Russian. Delfi journalists noted that the ratio of the characters reflected the ratio of the ethnic Russian and Estonian populations in the republic – three Estonians for every Russian.
The opening title of the video read that it all was a joke, but nevertheless the local police were alerted and pressed for the clip to be removed from the Internet. Police also found those who had made and posted the video. The authors were all underage and thus could not be held criminally responsible, but police lectured the kids on the unlawfulness of such actions. Their parents were also informed.
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Bianca knows nothing of Estonian politics or its progression. She knows only her own bias and doctrinnaire thinking. Alex, likewise, knows zero about Estonian family life in general, or about the relevant children in particular. But who needs such information when stand-along anti-Estonian bigotry serves just as well. RT, meanwhile, knows plenty about Estonia. So do the more than 100,000 Russians from across the border who visit Estonia for vacations each year, keep returning year after year because they enjoy it so much, and do not keep their impressions secret when back in Russia.Yet it appears that a written or unwritten agenda by which it operates prevents it from writing any articles reflecting such realities, only the kind of ones we repeatedly see here. Yes, these children were foolish. But they do not represent Estonia -- Alex's, Bianca's and RT's predilections notwithstanding.












It would be interesting to audit videos that are listed in a YouTube search filtered by “Russian Hate Crimes.” My search brought up three web pages full of titles. I don’t believe any of them were actually made or posted by 10 year-old children. Yet this apparently interests neither Alex, Bianca or RT. Curious, that.