We have to prepare ourselves for the next revolution - concluded, two years ago in an interview, Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukraine’s most widely read contemporary authors, well-known for his engagement in pro-Ukrainian and pro-European activism, replying to a question on the results of the last elections in 2010. ‘The unfreedom is back. Some people at such a historic moment need to listen to the poets – what will they say.’ - he told in the interview.
Now, we can probably soon read him in different languages of the world as he speaks to all, who ask him news from Ukraine, in one open letter shared with the wildest possible public, adding that, with this act, he is ‘subject to several new criminal code articles for “defamation,” “inflaming tensions” in Ukraine, where ‘everything that is not expressly permitted by the powers is forbidden’.
He defends the protesters of the accusation of being extremist and puts this label on the Government.He explains that on January 16th, the Members of Parliament voted, with a simple show of hands, ‘a whole series of legal changes which effectively introduce dictatorial rule and a state of emergency in the country without formally declaring them’, this, violating all rules of procedure and voting, and of the Constitution itself.
The letter reveals that from Kiev hospitals the police force entraps the wounded protesters and government forces kidnap the young people, especially those who wear the symbols of the Maidan or the European Union and take them out into forests, where they are stripped and tortured. It states that ‘victims of such actions are overwhelmingly young artists: actors, painters, poets’.
He writes as a conclusion that : ‘in Ukraine full-scale crimes against humanity are now being committed’, and it is the present government that is responsible for them. (source: neweasterneurope)
According to the last updates from ukrainian police: 103 demonstrators were arrested for having participated in confrontation with special police forces. They shall finally be released, due to an agreement made yesterday between the president Yanukovych and the leader of the opposition. He also agreed on changes to be made in the government composition. Meanwhile the he, has just named Kljujev- who, according to the ukrainian opposition, ordered to the ukrainian police to forcefully disperse hundreds of young pro-European protesters, in November 2013- to be the head of the Presidential administration of Ukraine. Kljujev was already vice prime minister three times in 2003, 2006 and 2010. He has strong personal and business connections with the current PM, Mykola Azarov, and has also strong business interest in the energy sector .(source: the Hungarian news agency). ‘
The scale of what has been stolen and usurped exceeds all imagination of what human avarice is capable.’- writes the poet, Andrukhovych.