Srikandi גבורה - Sekumpulan ahli parlimen Amerika adalah di Ukraine untuk melihat pilihan raya presiden yang Washington telah memanggil satu peristiwa bersejarah dan memberi lebih daripada US $ 11.4 juta untuk menyokong undi walaupun keganasan yang sedang berlaku di timur Ukraine.
Beberapa
senator Amerika Syarikat tiba di Ukraine ibu kota Kiev sebagai sebahagian
daripada Pertubuhan bagi Keselamatan dan Kerjasama di Eropah (OSCE) misi
peman-tauan, dilaporkan AP. Pasukan Amerika diketuai oleh bekas Setiausaha
Negara, Madeleine Albright.
Hadapan
pada mengundi Ahad ini, Maryland Demokratik Senator Benjamin Cardin mene-kankan
sokongan Washington untuk undi.
"Sebab
utama kami untuk mengambil bahagian adalah untuk menyatakan sokongan kami bagi
rakyat Ukraine," Cardin pada sidang akhbar di Kiev. Wakil rakyat Amerika
berkata mereka "terutamanya bimbang tentang kesan dari Rusia" dan
akan "jelas menonton rapat apa yang berlaku esok."
Bercakap
dengan MSNBC Saturday, Cardin juga mencadangkan bahawa "mereka akan
melihat nombor rekod yang keluar untuk mengundi" .
Ohio
Republikan Robert Portman memberitahu MSNBC dia berfikir pilihan raya itu akan
menjadi "baik," mengakui walaupun yang keluar mengundi dalam 2
kawasan timur Ukraine mungkin tidak setinggi "diharapkan".
Orang-ramai
membuang undi dalam peti undi olok-olok yang berbunyi " Sampah untuk
Presiden" semasa perhimpunan anti-pilihan raya di bandar timur Donetsk 25
Mei 2014 (People cast votes in a mock
ballot box that reads "Rubbish bin for the President" during an
anti-election rally in the eastern city of Donetsk May 25, 2014. (Reuters/Maxim
Zmeyev)
Amerika
Syarikat telah menolak untuk pilihan raya di Ukraine - tidak kira apa,
keganasan atau tiada keganasan di negara ini, RT ini Gayane Chichakyan
diperhatikan.
Sebelum
ini - di bawah keadaan yang berbeza - pegawai Amerika boleh mengatakan
bagaimana mengundi tidak boleh diterima adalah bersenjata.
"Itu
bukan sesuatu yang boleh dilakukan dengan laras diacukan senjata pada
anda," kata Presiden Obama dan awal tahun ini, pada pertemuan dengan
Perdana Menteri yang bertindak Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
Kiev
telah melepaskan tenteranya terhadap mereka di timur Ukraine yang tidak mahu
berada di bawah kawalannya.
Bandar
timur Ukraine Slavyansk, pada 25 Mei 2014 (The eastern Ukrainian city of
Slavyansk, on May 25, 2014 (AFP Photo/Viktor Drachev)
Di
tengah-tengah tembakan dari helikopter tentera Ukraine, dan orang awam yang
tidak bersenjata ditembak mati kerana mereka cuba menghalang serangan tentera -
Washing-ton membentangkan pilihan raya di Ukraine sebagai tidak ada masalah.
"Ukraine
adalah bersedia untuk pilihan raya," Marie Harf, timbalan jurucakap di
Jabatan Negara pada taklimat akhbar pada hari Jumaat .
"Di
seluruh majoriti Ukraine, perkara-perkara yang tenang," Jen Psaki,
jurucakap Jabatan Negara mendakwa lebih awal.
Ia
adalah tenang di bandar pelabuhan Odessa pada 2 Mei, sebelum aktivis pro- Kiev
dikejar lawan mereka ke dalam bangunan, Rumah Kesatuan Sekerja dan menetapkan
ia pada kebakaran, membunuh lebih 40 orang dan mencederakan berpuluh-puluh
lagi. Sehingga hari ini, tiada siapa telah bertanggungjawab.
Begitu
juga, tidak ada yang bertanggungjawab bagi keganasan di jalan-jalan di Kiev
pada bulan Februari yang mengakibatkan rampasan kuasa yang menggulingkan
Presiden Viktor Yanukovich dan digerakkan untuk kuasa mereka yang Amerika
Syarikat mahu lihat.
"Ia
benar-benar penting bagi penubuhan politik di Amerika Syarikat untuk
menghalalkan kerajaan yang telah disediakan oleh rampasan kuasa Maidan pada
bulan Februari kerana maka mereka boleh berkata:
Oh ,
lihat! Orang-orang ini telah dipilih secara demokratik 'Kerana sehingga kini
mereka tidak dipilih secara demokratik. Mereka berkuasa melalui
kekerasan," Nebojsa Malic, kolumnis di antiwar.com memberitahu RT.
Beribu-ribu
pemerhati antarabangsa telah dihantar ke Ukraine untuk memantau pilihan-raya.
OSCE
dihantar monitor untuk sembilan wilayah "menurut pelan, " Richard
Solash, seorang wakil misi memberitahu Itar -Tass . Walau bagaimanapun, tidak
ada pemerhati hadir di Donetsk dan Lugansk - kawasan di timur Ukraine yang
telah di pusat tunjuk perasaan anti Kiev.
Menjelang
hari pengundian, 4 anggota pasukan OSCE melawat Donetsk untuk melihat keadaan
tersebut seperti, berikut yang telah memutuskan untuk tidak memperuntukkan
pemerhati ke rantau ini dan juga untuk jiran Lugansk.
Menteri
Dalam Negeri Ukraine mengaku sebelum ini bahawa ia tidak mustahil untuk
mengadakan pilihan raya di beberapa daerah di kedua-dua Lugansk dan wilayah
Donetsk.
"Kami
sedar . . . bahawa ia tidak lagi akan menjadi mustahil untuk memegang dalam
pilihan raya cara biasa ke atas wilayah yang luas Donesk dan Lugansk kawasan
lain," Arsen Avakov pada sidang media.
Itu
tidak mengubah apa-apa untuk kerajaan rampasan kuasa yang dikenakan di Kiev
yang dipinda bil pilihan raya untuk menghapuskan keperluan kehadiran minimum.
Sementara
itu, konfrontasi ganas antara Kiev dan lawan terus pada hari pilihan raya,
dengan menembak dilaporkan di rantau Lugansk itu. Seorang terbunuh dan satu
lagi cedera dalam tembak-menembak di sesuatu tempat mengundi di bandar
Novoaydar, menurut Timbalan Ketua Kementerian Dalam Negeri Ukraine.
Dilaporkan,
lajur Ukraine Pengawal Kebangsaan kereta perisai berjaya menembusi pertahanan
penunjuk perasaan 'dan menuju ke Lugansk. Kuasa-kuasa Kiev melepaskan tembakan
ke arah orang awam di kafe di bandar, pihak berkuasa dari diri -
mengisyti-harkan Republik Rakyat Lugansk memberitahu RIA Novosti.
"Seorang
lelaki dan seorang wanita telah dibunuh," kata sumber itu, sambil menambah
bahawa beberapa orang yang tercedera.
Tetapi
Barat seolah-olah berasa ok dengan sebahagian daripada Ukraine berada di bawah
titik pada bersenjata api.
'Vote
at gunpoint,' anyone ? US keen to legitimize 'good' election in Ukraine . . .
A team
of American lawmakers is in Ukraine to observe the presidential election which
Washington has called a historic milestone and provided over US$ 11.4 million
to support the vote despite ongoing violence in eastern Ukraine.
Several
US senators arrived in Ukraine’s capital Kiev as a part of the Organization for
Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) monitoring mission, reported AP. The
American team is led by former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright.
Ahead
on Sunday’s voting, Maryland Democratic Senator Benjamin Cardin emphasized
Washington’s backing for the vote.
“Our
main reason for participating is to express our support for the Ukrainian
people,” Cardin told a news conference in Kiev. The American lawmaker added
that they were “particularly concerned about the impact from Russia” and would
“obviously be watching closely what happens tomorrow.”
Speaking
with MSNBC Saturday, Cardin also suggested that “they would see record numbers
coming out to vote”.
Ohio’s
Republican Robert Portman told MSNBC he thought the election would be “good,”
admitting though that voter turnout in two eastern Ukrainian regions might not
be as high as they “hoped for.”
The US
was pushing for the elections in Ukraine – no matter what, violence or no
violence in the country, RT’s Gayane Chichakyan noted.
Previously
- under different circumstances - American officials could say how unacceptable
voting at gunpoint is.
“That
is not something that can be done with the barrel of a gun pointed at you,”
President Obama and said earlier this year, at a meeting with Ukraine’s acting
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
Kiev
has unleashed the army against those in the east of Ukraine who don’t want to
be under its control.
Amid
fire from Ukrainian army helicopters, and unarmed civilians shot dead as they
tried to stop the army assault – Washington presents the elections in Ukraine
as no problem.
“Ukraine
is ready for the election,” Marie Harf, deputy spokesperson at the State
Department told a press briefing on Friday.
“Across
the vast majority of Ukraine, things are calm,” Jen Psaki, the State
Department’s spokesperson claimed earlier.
It was
calm in the port city of Odessa on May 2, before pro-Kiev activists chased
their opponents into a building, the Trade Unions House and set it on fire,
killing over 40 people and injuring dozens more. To this day, no one has been
held responsible.
Similarly,
no one was held responsible for the violence on the streets of Kiev in February
which resulted in a coup that ousted President Viktor Yanukovich and propelled
to power those whom the US wanted to see.
“It was
absolutely vital for the political establishment in the US to legitimize the
government that was installed by the Maidan coup in February because then they
can say ‘Oh, look! These people were democratically elected.’ Because until now
they haven’t been democratically elected: they came to power through force,”
Nebojsa Malic, a columnist at antiwar.com told RT.
Thousands
of international observers have been sent to Ukraine to observe the elections.
The
OSCE sent its monitors to nine regions “according to a plan,” Richard Solash, a
representative of the mission told Itar-Tass. However, no observers were
present in Donetsk and Lugansk – the regions in eastern Ukraine that have been
in the epicenter of anti-Kiev protests. Ahead of the voting day, four members
of the OSCE team visited Donetsk to see what the situation was like, following
which it was decided not to allocate observers to the region as well as to
neighboring Lugansk.
The
Ukrainian Interior Minister had admitted earlier that it would not be possible
to hold elections in a number of districts in both Lugansk and Donetsk regions.
“We are
fully aware…that it will no longer be possible to hold in a normal way
elections on the vast territory of Donesk and Lugansk regions,” Arsen Avakov
told a media conference.
That
does not change anything for the coup-imposed government in Kiev who amended
the election bill to remove the minimum turnout requirement.
Meanwhile,
violent confrontation between Kiev and its opponents continued on election day,
with shooting being reported in the Lugansk region. One person was killed and
another one wounded in a shootout at a polling station in the town of
Novoaydar, according to the Deputy Head of Ukraine’s Interior Ministry.
Reportedly,
a column of Ukrainian National Guard armored vehicles managed to break through
the protesters’ defense and was heading to Lugansk. The Kiev forces opened fire
at civilians in a café in the town, an authority from the self-proclaimed
People’s Republic of Lugansk told RIA Novosti. “A man and a woman were killed,”
the source said, adding that several people were wounded.
But the
West seems to feel ok with part of Ukraine being under gunpoint.
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