Paval Sevyarynets: “Regime in Belarus doesn’t change”

• 17.04.2009, 12:54

Co-head of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party Paval Sevyarynets commented on the dispersal of the action of solidarity in Minsk.

“It is an extremely rudeness! A peaceful action of solidarity with political prisoners and missing people is cynically dispersed on the day when Czech foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg is visiting Minsk.riot militiamen beat unarmed people, twist their arms and insult with obscene words. It was done blatantly and impudently. The dispersal of the today’s demonstration shows that teh essence of the Belarusian regime doesn’t change,” he told in an interview to the Charter’97 press center.

Paval Sevyarynets is especially concerned over the fact that the authorities set Belarusians at democrats who protest against the unfair regime.

“This is sad that young riot militiamen are set at their countrymen. These guys, riot militiamen, are Belarusians like all of us, but they have souls poisoned with the regime’s propaganda,” Paval Sevyarynets said.

According to him, “the Belarusian regime hasn’t learnt anything” for the time of its existence.

“Rudeness will be rudeness, brutality will be brutality, lawlessness will be lawlessness. There was time I thought may change for the better. If there were some doubts earlier, it is clear now they are not going to change anything in their course,” the Christian democrat emphasized.

It should be reminded that a peaceful action of solidarity with political prisoners and disappeared politicians was brutally dispersed in Minsk on April 16. People who came to October square were beaten cruelly by riot militiamen.

Karel Schwarzenberg, foreign minister of the Czech Republic, holding the EU residency, arrived in Minsk on Solidarity Day.