- Belarus is the last European nation whose
people are still suffering under the brutal grip and painful isolation
caused by dictator, Alyaksandr Lukashenka. On March 19th, the day
of our presidential elections, we finally have some degree of hope that
freedom and Light will prevail over brutality and darkness, but we are
certain that the Lukashenka regime is capable of anything to prevent that
from happening. Numerous times over a long period of time, we have
tried to inform the world about the plight of our people. President
Bush has referred to Lukashenka as "Europe's last dictator."
We are crying for our freedom. We are wondering why the world is
SILENT.
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- Today in Belarus freedom-loving citizen
opponents of Alyaksandr Lukashenka's regime are abducted routinely. Unknown
representatives of law-enforcing agencies in mufti seize people in the
streets, without producing any documents, and take law abiding citizens
to police departments, and then in courts, where servile judges pass sentences
on wrongful 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
dweller Anton Akulich was seized in Minsk. Unknown people seized him in
the center of Minsk, packed in a car, red Peugeot, and taken in 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 made, and they are of no effect.
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- 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, were he
was taken on the next day, it was found out that the mobile phone of the
BPF leader was confiscated, his arms were twisted, he was threatened bodily
harm.
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- 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.
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- 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
picture this total lawlessness. They were shooting at the car of Kazulin
team for trying to videotape their criminal acts.
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- 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 were 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 that acted like bandits were policemen.
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- Zubr resistance movement coordinator
Aleh Myatselitsa was arrested on the Day of Solidarity on February 16 by
unknown people in black. 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 transported from the remand prison by the
KGB officers and leadership of Byalynichy police department. In Byalynichy
these people with shoulder straps and documents of law-enforcing 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.
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- 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 have not presented their credentials, but said they
are law-enforcing agencies representatives. In a patrol car activists were
taken to the police department.
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- Such cases are plentiful. Now these
bandits in black are seizing people right in the streets, in the face of
witnesses. They brutally beat up a presidential candidate, oppositionists
and journalists in front of TV cameras. They kill innocent people.
And they commit these appalling crimes with impunity, as the dictators'
regime of Alyaksandr Lukashenka stands behind them.
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- The Charter '97 website addresses all
international human rights organizations and journalists and asks to direct
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.
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- Press Contacts: press@milinkevich.org
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