Mikola Statkevich: «We will build monument to these heroes!»
- 13.12.2007, 13:02
Mikola Statkevich, head of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Narodnaya Gramada), participated in the rally “For Independent Belarus!” form the beginning to the end. He was a witness how riot police were beating and dispersing the action participants, were jeering at member of the Young front Zmiter Hvedaruk.
“People, who were gathering on the square, were pushed back several times. Police stood near the palace of republic, on the square, special police cars and buses with policemen stood everywhere. They tired to push people back for several times, but people returned and run up flags. When police began to push people to Yanka Kupala Park, people run up flags and went in the direction of Victory Square. In fact, it was a demonstration.
But all of a sudden, near Yanka Kupala Park policemen attacked the group of young people, began to knock them down, they literally stamped on Zmiter. I spoke with a doctor later, and he said, Zmiter has ugly symptoms. When protesters helped Zmiter to stand up, he was almost unconscious, began to shiver. The doctor said it could very dangerous symptom,” M. Statkevich said.
In the politician’s view, Lukashenka has formed ineffective economy, and is trying now to defer a crisis by begging Russia for cheap gas. “The case is that our economy is of so to say kolkhoz model, it doesn’t work in market conditions. But Lukashenka did what he could. Now he is trying to beg Putin for cheap gas. But he needs to show that the authorities don’t like nationalists, in order not to fear Putin with anti-Russian moods,” M. Statkevich explains the violent acts of police.
But, according to the former political prisoner, time will place everything in order and monuments to real heroes, not to “temporary owners,” will be erected in Belarus. “Now everything is turned topsy-turvy in the country, people, who are ready to give their lives to its independence, not those, who are selling it, are beaten almost to death. But we will build monuments to these heroes! But those robots, so to say biomass, behave in such a way, because they don’t understand, if it were not for our independence, they would rot somewhere in Chechnya,” Mikola Statkevich concluded.