"Votes falsified skulls split, opposition imprisoned, beaten and Protestant relations with Europe in ruin. "
These are the words with which the 'Economist "describes, in an article online on December 29, the situation in Minsk after the presidential elections of 19, in which Alyaksandr Lukashenka has obtained nearly 80 % of the vote, according to many highly unlikely outcome. The criticisms come from everywhere, European Union, United States, but also from neighboring countries, where you can read in the papers the sad story of Belarus and listen to the calls by foreign officials to cease violence and the protesters, journalists and opponents policy is issued.
Leafing through countless pages in Web search for news about the election, I stumbled upon an interview with the Polish newspaper "Warsaw Business Journal" Belarussian ambassador to Warsaw, in which he argued that in practice "at the bottom of all states have problems with human rights, and that often these problems are seen in a too narrow, because respect for human rights also means allow any type of media freedom and protest the city. " Maybe it's "any kind of freedom" that genius does not go to the Belarusian government, against the freedom of paddling when it feels right, against the orders of the same government, freedom to disagree, to protest and act to improve their country with their ideals. Human rights should take to the second floor of the needs of the state? Or rather, the government?
Lukashenko, as it has always emerged victorious, he never had much luck with the after-after-election or referendum, there was always someone who came to complain about the inaccuracy of the alleged conduct, and it seems unlikely international assume a chord with the aim of defaming the President of Belarus. If you protest in most cases something went wrong and continues to go wrong. He made the exception the first time it has been elected in 1994, following the first democratic election in Belarus, where he arrived to command the country's relatively young and inexperienced.
He moved his first step into politics in 1990 as deputy of the Belarusian Soviet and founder of the party "Communists for Democracy" that would bring the Soviet Union toward a more democratic by allowing it to be embraced communism.
In '94 he found the government of a small state, not quite ready to tackle the economic crisis which the country was inevitably going to encounter came from the USSR. With its economic and political maneuvers Lukashenko si è avvicinato sempre più alla Russia, non certo nota per il suo assoluto rispetto per i diritti umani e la democrazia, puntando verso una stretta unione tra i due paesi.
Negli anni novanta ha cominciato ad aver problemi con la costituzione del paese essendo stato accusato da 110 parlamentari di averla violata, ma si risollevò con l’appoggio della Russia per mezzo di un referendum con il quale riuscì ad estendere a 7 anni il proprio mandato, e riuscì ad accumulare nuovi poteri tali da riorganizzare il parlamento bielorusso con una netta maggioranza a suo favore provocando le immediate critiche di Unione Europea, Stati Uniti e di molte organizzazioni per i diritti umani.
similar situation occurred with the elections at the end of his term in 2001: almost overwhelming victory with the support of Russia, is not considered legitimate by Western countries.
a referendum here in 2004 with the aim to lower the limits of presidential terms, in which almost 80% of voters agreed to the proposal, it is obvious issue with the West and human rights organizations.
Most obvious is then ricandidatura in 2006, where we see the same story: Opposition to the streets, won by Lukashenko, popular demonstrations, domestic protests, criticism from abroad, congratulations from Russia.
is not a new scenario. From time immemorial people in power do everything to keep it in their hands, and Lukashenko is not just another stubborn trying to hang on trampling on those who try to intrude.
In an article in the Berliner Zeitug "before the elections, published in Italian by" international "No 877, it is understandable that the president engages in the province on the population: the author Article points out that Lukashenko, despite the economic problems of its operations which also have been the cause, has managed to maintain some sort of order and social security, and how the people of the province of Belarus should be sufficient for this grant again the presidency. According to the author also, for this very reason, however, Lukashenko had a good result if the election were held democratically. Things have gone so far poorly, but for many people mediocrity is better than nothing.
This is the situation in the province, far from Minsk, before elections. But it seems that the story in the big city after the counting of the vote. The population accumulates around the prison, waiting for their loved ones are released, many wrongly arrested and beaten just because they were in the crowd of protesters and did not see their rights respected. The "Warsaw Business Journal has interviewed some people close to the prison. "Illegality, dictatorship, how else do you want to call it ...? are beating our children, "says the mother of one of those arrested while waiting in the snow that would release the child. The wife of Vladimir Neklyayev, one of the most important opponents of Lukashenko, he shouted in vain in front of the husband who was taken away from the emergency room by men in civilian clothes after he was beaten by the police. She too is waiting ... "At this moment I do not know where my husband."
started the new year, the government does not stop its campaign of repression, hitting newspapers and closing the offices of the OSCE, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which had not considered the result valid elections took place in a climate as undemocratic.
It is certainly not a situation of "Happy Free Elk." Forgive the insistence the case of Belarus, but as stated in the introduction to the blog, it also seeks to give voice and who can not be heard otherwise. If you know of other similar cases like this not so treated by the Italian press, you can do this in a comment. I'm sure there are.
Here are some links to helpful articles to inform you about the Belarus
Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/17800131?story_id=17800131
dal St Petersburg Times
http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=33333&highlight=belarus
http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=33302&highlight=belarus
dal Warsaw Business Journal
http://www.wbj.pl/article-52590-poland-condemns-post-election-violence-in-belarus.html
http://www.wbj.pl/article-52672-poland-takes-proactive-stance-on-belarus.html?typ=wbj
Un articolo in italiano:
http://www.presseurop.eu/it/content/article/436441-c-e-ancora-spazio-il-dialogo
Se ne possono trovare molti altri in internet, questi sono solo alcuni di quelli che mi sono capitati sotto gli occhi. Chi vuole davvero sapere e cerca informazioni sicuramente qualcosa trova!
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