Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Protests and more protests

One has to give Yanukovich credit for a job well done.
He has succeeded where both Yushchenko and Julia have failed.
He has been able to unite Ukrainians from east to west and north to south. 
Everyone is in opposition to him.
Today the protests continue in Independance square but because of the cool rainy weather the numbers were a lot fewer. During the day the police tried to carry out the order to remove them but tonight the people remain unmoved.

The Ukrainian TV Channel, TBI broadcasting from Independance square carried several hours of pictures and comentaries by ordinary people from around the country.
In contrast to most other rallies there were no political banners, only signs from various cities from around Ukraine describing their discontent with the taxation law. All speakers were in unison in there contempt of the government and for Victor Yanukovich in particular.
One elderly lady from Luhansk said that around the world most leaders are good people whereas in Ukraine the leaders "should all be lined up against the wall and shot".
A man from Donetsk said that "two years ago he would have fallen on his knees before Yanukovich and kissed his feet but today he would spit in his face". "Someone should set a bomb under them all and set it off" he said.  He also said that Russia has nothing for the people of Ukraine except more grief. 
A  woman from Donetsk said "Russia stay away we don't want you or your 'help'". 
A woman from Pavlohrad east of Dnipropetrovsk said that she voted for Yanukovich in the last two elections but was now "ashamed of what she had done and begged for Ukraine and the people of Ukraine to forgive her for what she had done. She ended her speech by thanking Azarov with a obscene gesture.
On Thursday Yankovich returns from Brussels to Kyiv and there are calls for everyone to greet him with demands that he veto the taxation laws and that the Azarov government resign. The organizers are expecting hundreds of thousands of protesters and are bringing six million signed petitions to back their demands.
Also.
The same TV channel is advertising the commemoration of the Holodomor and contrary to what Yanukovich has proclaimed earlier they are calling it a Genocide.

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