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Mice and the dead
Iryna Khalip

I returned from holiday and felt an obvious dead smell.

This is Anatol Liabedzka pulling dead bodies out of the burial vault to help Aliaksandr Lukashenka become legitimate and make the world recognise results of the “elections” for the first time for many years and say that Lukasenka is not a usurper any more but the head of state who gained a victory in an honest competition.

The situation has been clear until recently: all political organisations have been speaking for the last five years about the inability to run in any election campaigns as long as political prisoners remain in jail. Anatol Liabedzka said it, too. The United Civil Party (UCP) took a decision in 2012 to withdraw its candidates from the parliamentary “elections”, because political prisoners were behind bars. Has anything changed this year?

Mikalai Statkevich remains in prison. Mikalai Dziadok received an additional year of imprisonment. Yury Rubtsou was thrown into a detention centre after an open-type prison and got a prison term. It is easy to understand the nomination of Mikalai Statkevich as an attempt to release him from prison. Many decent people joined his initiative group for that purpose. Perhaps, it will help, they thought. The group of Mikalai Statkevich was not registered. But a crowd of other people, who are associated with a joke about mice and Lilliputs, was registered. All attempts of Lukashenka to represent it as elections should have ended. Who of the Belarusians who respect themselves and their country will run the race with mice? Who in the world will recognise this race a normal competition?

And Anatol Liabedzka comes to help the dictator. He offers him a friendly hand saying, “Don't be afraid, man, I'll support you in the race. I am here to turn the mice race into a real championship, and even the strictest international judges won't doubt you are the champion.”

Screenwriters seem to think one Liabedzka is not enough. Ramanchuk, whose political life ended on December 20, 2010, after his notorious speech on Belarusian TV and a limp handshake with Lukashenka, is pulled out of the vault. This stinky dead man is giving interviews, saying that his conduct was highly moral. It turns out that he was trying to save Anatol. No more, no less. And he saved him. Liabedzka was the only one who didn't stand trial. He was set free and can now run in “elections” without any restrictions. Anatol spent some time in jail, but no criminal case was opened. If someone wanted to frame Anatol Liabedzka, it would be the best way to do it.

It's really better to chew than speak sometimes. The “moral” act by the stinky dead man on TV turns out to be an operation to rescue Anatol. As he mentioned in his speech my family and me as main organisers of mass disorders, I dare suppose that the former UCP candidate tried to save Liabedzka by exchanging him for me and my son, who was immediately visited by the child protection service. He saved his friend from prison at the cost of freedom of women and children. Of course, it is really highly moral. What he gained is that Anatol was released without a criminal case, a conviction and any restrictions. He later spoke about some influential friends who saved him from prison. We know now who was that “influential friend”.

Anatol himself has begun to say helplessly something in tune with the dead man. He has begun to say in interviews how Ramanchuk saved him heroically excusing arrests of women, how presidential candidates agreed to cooperate with the KGB, but he, the UCP leader, was just released.

Anatol, do you understand what you said? You can say such things in two cases: either you work for the KGB and saw these documents, or you and the “signers” visit the same supervisor to get instructions. There are no other variants, except for a possibility that Anatol, just like his “influential friend”, reads someone else's text from notes. I don't want to believe in all of this.

It just happened that Anatol Liabedzka today is the only person who can help Lukashenka's “election campaign” and achieve the recognition of the dictator. This is what he is doing now. But it is Liabedzka who can spoil the game for Lukashenka if he withdraws. In this case, only Lukashenka and mice will remain in the untalented still life painting, because even the cat was not registered. Now, Lukashenka, mice and Liabedzka are in the picture. Anatol, you'd better leave them.

Iryna Khalip, specially for charter97.org

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