Lesia Orobets: On negotiations with Yanukovych Whatever noises Yanukovych made during the negotiations, the obvious purpose of these discussions appear to be: 1. Gaining time (“releasing all arrested individuals over three days:((( Why not by morning? The courts and prosecutors are completely independent!!!). The fact that oblast administrations have been taken over was possible in part precisely because the most aggressive dogs had all been moved to Kyiv. The Maidan in Kyiv is mobilized to such a degree that even Yanukovych and Zakharchenko are not prepared to attack it now, despite all of Putin’s efforts through Medvedchuk and Kluyev. So, they need a few more days. They say: three. Plus the emergency session of the Verkhovna Rada on January 28. 2. Establishing a cease-fire in Kyiv, setting up a decorative “border” of internal forces in Kyiv, who are draftees. So all the bleeding heart folks can cheer themselves that these are only boys. 3. Moving all the combat-ready berkut to the cities that have been mobilized, violently suppressing the local residents and taking back the administrations. Once again, shooting with shotguns and brass bullets, brutal beatings and torture, taking people away to a field rather than to a court, stripping people in the snow, using knives in the anus—all those things that began to happen in Kyiv since January 19. Grabbing and torturing injured people in hospitals. The boys have been tested and their methods too. 4. Continuing to have disguised cops and mafia underlings burning cars, grabbing and absconding with people to unknown destinations every night. Expanding this progressive practice to all the cities that are up in arms. 5. Stirring a break-up between the opposition leaders and the people, who want radical action. Making the opposition leaders look weak and indecisive. 6. Stirring a split between more moderate protesters and more radical ones; murdering the more radical elements during the cease-fire, while the moderates relax and slowly drift back home. If they get lucky and few people are left, knocking down the Maidan with APCs and construction equipment (we all saw the preparations for storming and only a full mobilization of Kyivans repelled it). 7. Having crushed the people in cities that were up in arms and weakened Kyiv as much as possible, returning the mad dogs. 8. Counting the arms and legs of a few dozen MPs, on January 28 approving the state of emergency already declared by Yanukovych. Setting aside the rosy glasses, the last two days the crazy ригівські majorities in oblast councils will approve an appeal “for stabilization.” Making determined efforts to organize pogroms in Kyiv (and, I suspect, they will likely try these in other cities, too) —based on the same slogan of “preventing destabilization.” The hand of the FSB? Indubitably! But they’re doing it!!! In short, a three-day “ceasefire” will cost us hundreds more abducted and crippled, dozens more killed, and a growing number trashed cars. By January 28, when the Rada is supposed to convene, these numbers will double. To understand properly, just two things are necessary: watch the clip with the brutalized naked kozak and the statements by Lukash... not Yanukovych, but Lukash a true political “puppet,” summing up the results of the talks. For me personally, after being beaten by Berkut myself on January 19, being chased by 20 helmets clearly ready to kill, when I evacuated an injured man from the Maidan yesterday, when I looked for those who had disappeared and struggled to get the wounded away from the executioners in the Emergency Hospital yesterday and found myself weeping over a smashed up car obviously belonging to a mother with its baby seat (nerves), when I look at my abducted and crippled friend Ihor Lutsenko, when I see the photographs of the now-dead Maidan boys...I have no illusions or doubts about “negotiations.” We need that? We can see for ourselves that the kozak spirit has not left Ukraine! Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava!
Posted on: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:02:32 +0000
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