One of recent weeks’ leading stories of atrocities allegedly committed by the Yanukovych regime or Russian secret services in Ukraine has begun to unravel, with growing suspicions that Automaidan leader Dmytro Bulatov’s kidnapping and torture in January was faked. The “Automaidan” is a protest movement of car owners who drive from city to city to highlight the wealth and corruption of Ukrainian government officials. Bulatov disappeared in January, then emerged with visible head wounds and claimed to have been kidnapped and “crucified” by masked men speaking with Russian accents. He is currently in Lithuania for medical treatment. After media articles questioning Bulatov’s story, two officials of Arseni Yatsenyuk’s opposition Batkivshchyna Party from Khmelnitsky Region yesterday issued an open letter to the population, saying that published evidence showed that the incident was faked. They wrote that “the leader of the Automaidan has sold his civic conscience,” and they “condemn him for this unprecedented act and demand a full analysis of his complicity in planning his own kidnapping, which is a crime against the state and society.” Then articles appeared under headlines like “Yatsenyuk will dump Klitschko as unneeded ballast,” as analysts suggested that Udar Party leader Vitali Klitschko’s complicity in the Bulatov incident could lead to a split between him and Yatsenyuk.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 02:19:56 +0000
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