“Hussein’s destiny is lesson for Lukashenka” :: Charter'97 :: News

The news on former Iraqi dictator Saddam Huseein’s arrest flew all over the world. It is most actively discussed in Belarus. Its president Alyaksandar Lukashenka is called “a last European dictator”. Uladzimir Kobets, “ZUBR” resistance movement coordinator, comments on Hussein’s capture.

-One more Belarusian dictator’s friend appeared, where he is to be,-in jail. Miserable and scared, he arouses disgust. Today the rest of his “army” will be hysterically trying to show their consistency, striving to persuade the Iraqis that they are strong. Nevertheless, it is absolutely obvious; Hussein’s arrest, as it was shown, is a fall of one of the international terrorism leaders.
“Tell me, who is your friend and I’ll tell you who you are”, everybody knows this saying. Alyaksandar Lukashenka said about his sympathy for various tyrants of the past as well as of the present. He praised Hitler, was friends with Miloshevich and Hussein.

But the world has changed. It changed in a couple of years. There is democratic European revolution going on in Eastern Europe. As a result, last European dictatorships fall, pro-European forces come into power and a new perspective of EU expanding up to Russian borders appears. Miloshevich’s, Shevarnadze’s, Hussein’s fates are a lesson for those considering themselves Messiahs, who deprive their own people of their right to make a free choice. Their time has been over, so they must go.