Lukashenkas Bandits Kidnap People. Why does the World Community Keep Silent?
Today in Belarus opponents of Alyaksandr Lukashenka's regime are being abducted. Unknown representatives of law-enforcement agencies in mufti seize people in the streets, without producing any credentials, and take them to police departments, and then to courts, where obedient judges pass sentences on thought-up charges. For instance, yesterday in Minsk Zubr activists Alyaksei Lyaukovich, Paval Yukhnevich and Maxim Vinyarski were seized. Yesterday another activist of resistance movement, an underage Barysau resident Anton Akulich was seized in Minsk. Unknown people seized him in the center of Minsk, packed in a car, red Peugeot, and drove him in an unknown direction. There is no information about his whereabouts. Today the international community practically does not react to the events. For many years habitual statements are being made -- to no effect.
Other oppositionists are detained according to the same scenario. The leader of the Belarusian Popular Party, an electioneering agent of the single democratic candidate for presidency Vintsuk Vyachorka, and six other activists of the headquarters of Alyaksandr Milinkevich were seized on March 8 right after the meeting of the candidate with voters. Later it was informed that oppositionists were detained by riot policemen. For six hours nobody knew the whereabouts of the candidate?s agent. The mobile phone of V. Vyachorka didn't answer. Later, at the trial, where he was taken the next day, it was determined that the mobile phone of the BPF leader was confiscated, his arms were twisted, and he was threatened with bodily harm.
The candidate for presidency Alyaksandr Kazulin and his supporters were beaten up by SWAT policemen on March 2. Only the commander, charged with abductions and assassinations of people, Dzmitry Paulichenka, was in uniform. In his full dress lieutenant colonel Paulichenka was beating and kicking Kazulin, while his officers were beating well-known politicians and journalists.
The same people staged a nasty fistfight in front of the police department of Kastrychnitski district of Minsk. They were seizing people peacefully standing by the police department, who had come to support Kazulin. The nose of the Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus reporter Aleh Ulevich was fractured for an attempt to photograph this total lawlessness. They were shooting at the car of Kazulin's team for trying to videotape their criminal acts.
The deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the 12th convocation Syarhei Antonchyk was apprehended right in front of his house, when he wanted to accompany his son to his office. An elderly man with heart troubles was detained by riot policemen in plainclothes, who had not presented their IDs and wore clothes in black. In the court Antonchyk and his son were charged with insubordination to policemen's demands. Only in the court Syarhei Antonchyk and his son found out that the scoundrels who acted like bandits were really policemen.
Zubr resistance movement coordinator Aleh Myatselitsa was arrested on the Day of Solidarity on February 16 by unknown people in black. The youth leader was sentences to 15 days of arrest for "petty hooliganism", though he was simply standing on Skaryna Avenue in Minsk with a burning candle in memory of repressed Belarusians. After 15 days of arrest he was removed from the custody prison by the KGB officers and leadership of the Byalynichy police department. In Byalynichy these people with shoulder straps and IDs of law-enforcement agencies' officers, acted like gangsters. In front of Byalynichy police department a provocation against Myatselitsa was staged by them. When he was taken out of the police car, two drunken men came up to him and suddenly intentionally fell down. Then they cynically said that Aleh had beaten them up. People who witnessed that were indignant; they tried to defend Aleh Myatselitsa. Then the guys in plainclothes had to reveal the service they represented. Provocators were officers of the KGB.
In Kalinkavichy (Homel region) On March 9 two activists of the headquarters of Alyaksandr Milinkevich, Dzyanis Rabinka and Alyaksei Manevich, were sentenced to 15 days of arrest for alleged swearing. Not far from the house of the activists unknown people started flinging snowballs into them. They cursed, and two men in plainclothes approached them. They did not present their credentials, but said they were representatives of law-enforcement agencies . The activists were then taken to the police department in a patrol car.
Such cases are numerous. Now these bandits in black are seizing people right in the streets, in fronte of witnesses. They brutally beat up a presidential candidate, oppositionists and journalists in front of TV cameras. They kill. And they commit these appalling crimes with impunity, as the dictators? regime of Alyaksandr Lukashenka stands behind them.
Charter'97 addresses all international human rights organizations and journalists and asks them to direct their attention to the total lawlessness in the center of Europe! Show solidarity with the Belarusians. Make your governments to react expeditiously and effectively to criminal actions of Lukashenka's regime, that has launched a terror against his own nation.
Source: Charter'97 Press Center, March 11, 2006
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