[LPA] (en) Chernobyl/Belarus: Arrests and Brutality
A review of antinuclear action in Minsk 25/04/2011
While the opposition leaders who had "survived" after the election
campaign discussed how to organise the Chernobyl March-2011 (an anual
antinuclear demonstration in Belarus) and agreed to make another action
"for themselves" in the Park of Peoples' Friendship, Belarusian
anarchists decided to act more quickly and challenging, as well as to
cover more people then the authorities kindly permit.
On 23rd April the was a screening organised in a picture gallery,
dealing with the antinuclear topic. Movies "Victims" and "Nuclear
debates" by Vladimir Chertkoff dedicated to the Chernobyl liquidators
and a science conference on health care.
On 24th April another screening took place in a second picture gallery.
We demonstrated the movie "The Clowd" directed by Gregor Schnitzler
which depicts the lot of a small settlement near a nuclear power plant.
On 25th April members of the Antinuclear Resistance were planning to
carry out a peculiar flash-mob action in several public places. In an
hour the anarchists were to visit three areas of heavy pedestrian
traffic: "Riga" supermarket, an area at the "Pushkinskaja" metro
station, and a bus stop at the "Kamennaja Gorka" metro station.
Picketing the fist place for at least 10 minutes the participants were
actively distributing leaflets with the position of anarchist concerning
the nuclear power plant construction in Belarus, holding banners and
giving a speech through a loudspeaker. Thus we tried to remind the
population of Belarus once more that that would be us and our children
who will have to pay off the credit, but not the authorities, for it is
clear that the budget consists of our taxes, and if it' our money, all
the expenses must be approved by the people, not some random guys from
the government.
At the next stop-over thing suddenly went wrong when about 15
plain-cloth cops started to grab the participants who had just started
the action. All in all 12 people were detained, some beaten up and put
before court the next day. All of them got fines (150 euro each) and the
foreign activists were deported from the country.
We call upon everyone who is against the NPP in Belarus to the active
protest against such a construction. So much for walking the same root
year after year, so much for sitting at home discussing the impudent
authorities, go out onto the streets, inform the others about the
dangers of the atomic power engineering, use direct actions after all.
If they don't ask for our permission for the NPP construction, why
should we ask for permission to protest?
https://belarus.indymedia.org/23764
More about the detained -
http://www.autistici.org/abc-belarus/?p=140&lang=en
*** Actually the Chernobylski March went on shitty as well - 300 to 600
participants, nothing more than regular speeches of the politicians
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