daTRUballin
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What? There's difference between armed men and general population. Imagine that somebody took over a government building in the US. Would you call them "terrorist"?
Not sure why you finding this concept confusing. There are no huge differences in religion, language, or social status between people in Kiev and Donetsk. Now there's animosity between citizens who stayed in Donetsk and those who are in Kiev. Those who are in Kiev are pissed that Donetsk people didn't fight back and protest. People in Donetsk are pissed that Ukraine cut them off economically. And there's also Russian propaganda which is constantly making up stories. I think "execution of a 3 year old boy" is classic now.
The "rebels" in DNR and LNR aren't terrorists, they're ordinary citizens fighting for the people in Donetsk and Luhansk. The people in Kiev have animosity towards the people in Donetsk because they're being brainwashed by their government that DNR and LNR are "terrorist regions" that Russia is using in order to "take over" Ukraine. The people in Donetsk have animosity towards Kiev because the Ukrainian government is constantly bombing Donetsk since it's a "terrorist" region.
My family is from Donetsk, and we have close friends and family who still live there, and we still keep in contact with them. Some of them actually have been killed, but I guess it doesn't matter and they deserve to die since they're "terrorists".