The following is a first hand account by Natalia
Vitrenko, the leader of the PSPU political party in Ukraine, of
the fact that the US and NATO-backed coup in Ukraine is run by self-confessed
neo-nazis, initiating the violence in the country, including kidnapping,
murder and occupation of government buildings, all described by western
governments and press as "peaceful demonstrations." This statement appears
in the February 28, 2014 issue of Executive Intelligence
Review. Mike Billington
U.S.A. and EU, With Ukrainian
Terrorists, Establish Nazi Regime
Feb. 24,
2014 (EIRNS)—Below is a statement made yesterday by Natalia Vitrenko, Chairman
of the Ukrainian PSPU. In addition. today, Vitrenko keynoted a webcast,
broadcast on the site of the Paris-based Solidarity and Progress (S&P)
organization. A transcript of her
remarks on that webcast is available.
[PDF
version of this statement]
Statement by Natalia
Vitrenko
The entire
world is disturbed by the events in Ukraine. The heart of the matter must be
understood. The Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, as a left opposition
party that has fought and continues to fight against the domestic and foreign
policy conducted both by the Orange forces under Yushchenko and by the alliance
of the Party of Regions and the Communist Party of Ukraine, under Yanukovych,
finds it necessary to present our evaluation.
On February
22, under the automatic-weapons barrels of the Euromaidan guerrillas and
terrorists, the Parliament carried out a neo-Nazi coup d'etat.
Flouting all
the provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine and of international law, and
trampling on European values, the Parliament exceeded its authority and
committed acts that are subject to criminal punishment. Washington and Brussels,
who have been telling all the world that the Euromaidan is a peaceful action by
the Ukrainian people, who have made their choice for Europe and are defending
democracy and European values, must admit that none of this is the case. They
have supported a Nazi putsch, carried out by the guerrillas, terrorists, and
politicians of the Euromaidan in the geopolitical interests of the
West.
There are
indisputable proofs that this is the case:
1) changing
the state system in an unconstitutional manner. This violates the European
principle of the rule of law. In violation of Section XIII of the Constitution
of Ukraine (which describes in detail the procedure for changing the
Constitution) and without any participation by the Constitutional Court, the
state system of our country has been changed by a Resolution of the Supreme
Rada of Ukraine;
2)
exceeding its authority and flouting Article 19 of the Constitution, the
Parliament has appointed supervisors for
- the Ministry of Internal
Affairs,
- the Security Service of
Ukraine,
- the Prosecutor General's
office.
These supervisors have been
appointed for the purpose of the Euromaidan's coercing the Constitutional
institutions of the state, in order to satisfy the interests of the West in an
unconstitutional manner;
3)
President of Ukraine Yanukovych (whose policies our party has openly opposed
for his entire four years in office) has been stripped of his Constitutional
authority, in gross violation of the Constitution of Ukraine. The Constitution
does not endow the Supreme Rada of Ukraine with the right to strip the
President of his authority on the invented pretext of his having removed
himself from office. The Constitution prescribes a procedure for impeachment.
Again, however, guided not by the rule of law but by revolutionary expediency,
and flouting the European principle of the presumption of innocence,
Yanukovych has been removed from office and new Presidential elections
scheduled, in violation of the Constitution of Ukraine;
4) the
Parliament, protecting the Euromaidan guerrillas and terrorists, has amnestied
and declared to be heroes all of its participants, initiating a process of
giving them high positions in the government. This means that those who took
up arms and killed innocent citizens and members of law enforcement who were
guilty of no crime, those who seized and destroyed administrative buildings
and weapons depots, and those who organized summary justice and committed
blackmail and kidnapping, will escape any responsibility for their actions.
Thus, the basis for the formation of a neo-Nazi, repressive state machine is
being created.
Washington
and Brussels should heed our warnings. We charge them, and the political forces
they have brought to power, with full responsibility for the establishment of a
totalitarian, Nazi regime in Ukraine, with the inevitable gross violation of the
rights and freedoms of millions of our fellow citizens.
The U.S.A.
and the EU should know, that the political parties and movements that have
seized power, among which are neo-Nazi forces (such as Svoboda and Right
Sector), announced as they did so, that they were carrying out a national
revolution under the slogans
- "Ukraine for Ukrainians,"
- "Glory to the Nation — Death
to the Enemies!",
- "Knife the Muscovites and
Hang the Communists!", and so forth.
As of
February 22, those now in power bear complete responsibility for all Ukraine and
for violations of the rights and freedoms of citizens.
The
Euromaidan guerrillas and terrorists continue to seize administrative and
government buildings in southeast Ukraine. Voters are being stripped by
terrorist methods of the right to have the representatives they elected function
in local councils. Civilians attempting to defend their elected officials are
being mercilessly shot from Kalashnikovs as well as non-lethal weapons, as
happened February 22 in Luhansk.
The
guerrillas, without possessing any government authority and in the absence of a
state of emergency, have arrogated to themselves to block major highways with
axes and cudgels, to run checkpoints, and to inspect vehicles and the documents
of their passengers, barring those they disapprove of from leaving Kiev. They
are blockading the access roads to airports, thereby grossly violating the
European Convention on Human Rights and Basic Freedoms, which guarantees the
inviolability of the individual, freedom of movement, the presumption of
innocence, and the right to security and life. They are abasing the dignity and
rights of the entire people of Ukraine.
On February
23, representatives of those now in power announced the formation of a Ukrainian
ethnic community: everyone who uses the Russian language is to be stripped of
the status of member of the titular Ukrainian ethnic community and subject to
discrimination in civil and political rights.
The intention
to ban the transmission of Russian Federation television channels in Ukraine, as
being mouthpieces of a hostile state, has been announced. This is how the new
authorities are defending European values like freedom of speech and
opinion.
Lists for
"lustration" [the disclosure of personal information] have begun to be drawn up.
This mechanism will be used to strip the civil and political rights of those who
do not share the neo-Nazi views of the new Ukrainian authorities.
Sickening
vigilante justice continues throughout the country. Deputies of the Supreme Rada
of Ukraine who are disapproved of are beaten (including hit with stones), and
there is mass intimidation of elected local council members that their families
will be destroyed (especially their children) if they fail to carry out the
political aims of those now in power. The offices of political parties that are
disapproved of are being burned on a mass scale, while political parties and
public organizations that do not share the ideology and goals of the new
Ukrainian authorities are receiving public threats of persecution and
banning.
A Euromaidan
guerrilla takeover of the Kiev-Pechora Monastery, an Orthodox holy place, and
its transfer to the schismatic Filaret [Ukrainian Orthodox Church/Kiev
Patriarchate], has begun. This would proceed to the seizure of all Ukrainian
Orthodox Church/Moscow Patriarchate churches, with the goal of subordinating
them to the Vatican.
On behalf of
the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, I declare:
We do not
recognize as legal the coup d'etat that has been carried out, and we do not
recognize as lawful the activity of the new Ukrainian authorities. We condemn
their total violation of the rights and freedoms of the citizens of Ukraine on
the basis of ethnic, cultural, religious, or political factors.
We appeal
to the European Parliament and the UN Security Council, demanding immediate
intervention in what is transpiring in Ukraine, to defend the rights and
freedoms of citizens, and to prevent the new Ukrainian authorities from
unleashing a Third World War on the Eurasian continent.
—Natalia
Vitrenko
—Chairman of the
PSPU
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