american[Compare my comments from a fews days ago on BelaRus to the info. contained in the article below...Did I mention: Sanctions? Yes. "Democratic" Opposition party? Yes. "Spontaneous"Gathering in a square? Yes, in my original draft, which I ended up editing out due to clutter. Calls of "Flawed elections" before and after the results? Yes. Encouragement to the people by the opposition leader and West to overthrow the government? Yes. In other words, all the ingredients of a coup d'etat. The question remains: will the people bite? We shall find out.]
http://www.interfax.com/3/142033/news.aspx Interfax March 25, 2006 Authorities should feel afraid - Milinkevich MINSK -
Former Belarussian presidential candidate [and western stooge] Alexander Milinkevich has called on participants in an unsanctioned rally in Yanka Kupala Park in Minsk "not to wait another five years to build a free [please define free A-HOLE? Am I free?...I'd love to be free to tell the murderous tyrant Bush to swallow his vomit to his face, but I'm unable to, as it would get me locked up in a federal prison for life or perhaps executed.] Belarus, but to do so now," an Interfax correspondent reports.
"We have made a step forward, we have rid ourselves of fear, and now it's time for them [the authorities] to feel afraid," Milinkevich said.
"They are sitting in a fortress, but you can see the cracks appearing. We will storm this fortress," Milinkevich said [Ya, stick to your whoring duties; you make a bad poet]
"Nobody believes the results of the elections," Milinkevich said.
"They lost the elections. We won [with 6% of the votes].
This is the beginning of the end for those who have deceived us," he said.
------------------------------------------------------ http://regnum.ru/english/612109.html Regnum (Russia) March 25, 2006 Russian Foreign Minister thinks that dispersal of rally in Minsk was legitimate
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accuses OSCE in instigation, regarding presidential elections in Byelorussia.
Long before the elections the OSCE stated that their results will not be legitimated, their comments on the process were biased and thus, it played an instigative role, said Lavrov. He also noted that Russian observers found nothing illegal in the Byelorussian elections.
As for the rally that lasted several days such meetings rarely decide anything, he said.
The meeting that lasted 5 days in the central square of Minsk was dispersed by Byelorussian police on the night before [Want to know long protestors against Bush's first election victory were allowed to congregate in public space? A few hours! Hey, but who in the media pays attention to such ironies...] A tent town in the square has been destroyed, 200-300 people arrested, according to unofficial information. Lavrov noted that police actions were legitimate.
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/706/2006/03/25/421@66791.htm China Radio International March 25, 2006
No Heavy Police Interference at Belarus Rally
No heavy police interference has been reported during an unsanctioned rally organized by Belarusian opposition supporters in central Minsk on Saturday. The rally was organized to protest President Alexander Lukashenko's victory in a disputed election last week.
Anti-Lukashenko forces had called for a massive gathering [but only managed to draw a few hundred - ha, ha!] on Saturday's anniversary of the first independent Belarusian state, hoping it would galvanize tens of thousands more to join them. Traditionally, March 25 has been a rallying day for the opposition....
Meanwhile the United States joined European nations on Friday in imposing sanctions on Belarus. U.S. State Department spokesman, Adam Ereli said Washington would act in unison with the European Union against President Alexander Lukashenko and others.
"The United States is imposing targeted travel restrictions and is planning financial sanctions against individuals responsible for the recent electoral fraud and human rights abuses in Belarus including Alexander Lukashenko.
Ereli said the United States strongly condemns actions by Belarus' security forces who have seized and detained citizens demonstrating against the results of the presidential election [Funnily enough, when Bush was elected, protestors were similarly "seized and detained " by the FBI and police, yet the actions then were obviously justified]. Russia, which has close ties to the former Soviet republic, has taken a different tack, saying the media has distorted the severity of the police action.
