Belarusians don’t trust Lukashenka and declare mass boycott of “election” (Photo)
- 12.09.2008, 8:21
On September 11, after visiting the General Prosecutor’s office about 40 citizens from different districts of the country declared boycott to “parliamentary election” and called on everyone who had suffered from arbitrary behaviour of officials to join this action. These people adopted an appropriate address.
Uladzimir Zhurba of Navapolatsk (the Vitsebsk region), technical director of Vitorzhye company, one of the signatories of the address, told to BelaPAN he as under examination and his enterprise is ruined due to a criminal case instigated against his wife. The businessman came to Minsk to see Prosecutor General Ryhor Vasilevich. “But the Prosecutor General didn’t even agree to see the people. Though women of venerable age made along way to solve their problems. It is a telling example of how the acting authorities treat the people,” U. Zhurba said.
According to Sofya Shastakovich, a daughter of a repressed participant of the Great Patriotic War, she couldn’t cancel residence registration of her son in law, registered but not living in her apartment for many years. “I declared boycott, because it is the sixth year when I am trying to gain justice. My constitutional rights are violated, officials sign documents but don’t read them, and don’t bring any responsibility,” S. Shastakovich noted.
The address says, in particular, that “election in Belarus have lost any sense”. “The country should live according to laws, adopted by MPs. But we known from our experience that Belarusian officials violate the laws. That is why lawlessness reigns in the country. Adopting of new laws in this situation will only promote lawlessness and hide it,” the authors of the document think.
They call on people to overcome fear, think about their children and grandchildren, the future of whom “depends not only on a slice of bread on table and roof over their heads”. “More things are necessary for decent life, in first turn, the authorities that serves the people,” the address says.
The address is directed to Alyaksandr Lukashenka, head of the Central Election Commission, head of the OSCE office in Minsk and UN reprehensive in Belarus.
