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Henadz Faryna: Direct appeals are more effective than applications for strike pickets

13.05.2013  |  Politics   |  Piotr Kuchta, EuroBelarus,  
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What is the sense to write useless applications so as to to inevitably receive a decline in picketing? – asks the leader of the United Civil Party (UCP) Maladzechna organization.

 

This party alongside with the local “BPF Youth party” rejected traditional and senseless attempts to attract attention of the society to the problem of disappeared politicians by means of unauthorized pickets. During the last week Henadz Faryna, the chairperson of the UCP Maladzechna organization and Uladzimir Shulzhytski, the activist of the “BPF Youth” presented the portrait of Major General Yury Zacharanka, the former Minister for Internal Affairs who disappeared 14 years ago, to the head of the Maladzechna police station Valiantsin Asipovich.

Henadz Faryna explained the sense of the local activists’ initiative to the EuroBelarus Information Service.

- What was the reaction of the Colonel Asipovich to your visit and your present?

- The meeting took place at the colonel’s office; he was extremely polite, reasonable and thanked us for the present.

- What is the aim of your action?

- We are trying to attract attention to the problem of people’s disappearance on the whole and Yury Zacharanka in particular. As the kidnapping and disappearance of people is the gravest crime irrespectively of its political motivation. Human life is an absolute and everlasting value and should be defended by the state. But the example of Yury Zacharanka shows that such defence is not absolute and leaves much to be desired. By granting the portrait of Major General Yury Zacharanka to the colonel Valiantsin Asipovich we reminded the colleagues of Zacharanka that the tragic destiny can happen with anyone, regardless of their powers and shoulder straps. We tried to remind that we should serve not only the President but the law also.

- The United Civil Party applied for several dozens of pickets in remembrance of 14 years that passed from Zacharanka’s disappearance. Why your position is not concordant with your own party?

- We think that the politics of UCP is not effective, when they submit numerous applications for picketing and receive declines with 100 per cent confidence. By this we not only demonstrate the inhumanity of the regime, but also appear in the quality of constant victims. Perhaps, in this way we can arouse the sympathy of our foreign partners, but inside the country this tactics is absolutely ineffective. But when we came to the Interior Ministry office with the portrait of Yury Zacharanka we acted in accordance with our own scenario and were not dependent on authorities. As every citizen of Belarus has a right to appeal to the authorities and no one can take this right away. I believe that such tactics is more effective than the practices of writing useless applications for picketing, and useless complaints to court about the decisions of the authorities. We invited the supporters of the party’s “strategic policy” to follow in our footsteps, but for some reasons they refused; perhaps, due to their adherence to clichés, lack of their own political will and initiative.

Let us recall that Yury Zacharanka disappeared under unexplained circumstances in downtown Minsk 14 years ago. The legal proceedings in respect of his murder started on September 17, 1999. The case can be dismissed on September 17, 2014 in connection with the expiry of a period of limitation to excuse the guilty for prosecution.

 

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