Known Viciebsk activist Boris Khamaida almost two decades calls on Belarusians not to participate in elections held by the authorities. According to him, after the change of the Constitution in 1996 in Belarus no legitimate Yermoshina, no real elections. The correspondent of "Vitebsk Spring" asked Mr. Khamaida share with readers his reflections about the current elections.
Boris Hanonovich, you think you are different than a current selections from all the previous ones?
Here we have to decide: do we have elections? I believe that we have no choice since 1996, when there was an anti-constitutional coup – this is known. Was suspended constitutional legitimacy 1994 and were replaced, so to speak, "ersatz-constitution". It is not recognized by any democratic international institutions. After the legal foundation has been destroyed, we do not have grounds for holding fair elections. So I can not understand why there tends to this opposition? One of two things: either they need some kind of glory, or they are corrupt. They go to the illegitimate swing, so to speak, wiping his feet on the legitimacy of the 1994 Constitution, are recorded, that is, create the entourage of these elections, which is actually no.
But in such conditions we all do? Sitting on the couch?
Yes! Sitting on the couch October 11 – is the most patriotic act for the Belarusians. My dream is that all of Belarus eleventh sat on the sofa. Time will pass, and twenty years later, their children are asked what they were doing on that day? And they will have something to say, "I was sitting on the couch, because in those conditions it was not possible to choose, and there were no elections." And it will be the perfect answer.
Well, let's say, we all sat down on the sofa. What next?
This sit-in protest should be the first element in the consolidation of the Belarusian society. After that, we will see that each of us is alone, and that we have enough. Albeit not the majority, but enough. And it will give us some hope for the future. This is only the first step. In the area of these people are not prepared to go so far. They are like little children. Initially, the child crawling, then rises to his knees, then rises from his knees ... And this society, when it grows up, it will realize that this Newsletter posts: nothing has changed – it's all empty. All the same, it will be necessary to enter the area and say, "Go away!". And only then, after returning to the constitutional field in 1994, we have made a real election.
Do not you think that the political conditions predicted you unprepared society fails to make the right choices from the much greater number of potential candidates?
Now, they say, and who besides Lukashenka? Yes, anyone else they do not see, because there is no political field. Potential candidates cannot be seen. For example, Gonchar, Zakharenko and others they saw that the conditions that have developed here, or killed, or you get into prison. When there will be new opportunities, we will not know where there was one or the other candidate. And then there will be a choice. And we'll see how it behaved during the time of Lukashenko, which he did in different periods of his political growth. And now it turns out: there are missiles, and around the so-called freaks: Gaydukevich, Ulakhovich, Karatkevich ...
And Karatkevich, you think, too, is freak?
Yes! Karatkevich first! Who is Karatkevich? Anybody does not know her. Where did it come from? To fifteen years anybody I knew about this Karatkevich? Nobody. The fact that in politics it does not happen. Look, Obama did not fall from the sky. Democrats from school that led Obama. In a normal society and should be.
When in 1994 he ran Zenon Pozniak, it was the name of it was a well-known figure. It supported a prophet as Vasil Bykov. And who is Karatkevich – we do not know. Moreover, I want to say that we are not all clear to her colleague Dmitriev. We do not know who is behind it. But do not Dmitriev and Karatkevich I blame. I blame Nyaklyaeu! It is his authority, his reputation drew the face of these freaks! And all because of the fact that he took not for their cause! He is a poet! His dear God kissed her forehead and said: "You will be a poet!" Zenon Pozniak He also kissed her on the forehead, but he said: "You'll policy!" Everyone has his destiny, and he does not understand. He needed the glory! Go away, write poetry! If his works encourage people in the area – that's what I understand.
Do not come if Zhohar Dudayev, if there were no national ideology Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, a Chechen poet. It was he who re-Soviet general in the national leader. Then Yandarbiyev knew he was not a politician, but he saw Dudayev and started to sculpt out of him a national hero. And they killed him just for that reason, because they were afraid that he will create another Dudayev. He had a vocation.
Tell me, whether our intelligentsia somehow take advantage of this experience?
So I say that our national intelligentsia must do now efforts in this direction: to educate national leaders, rather than chasing fame. On the hell do this glory! A second example: Lech Walesa – a simple electrician, but gathered around him national elite, the same Jacek smoking. And he listened to them, so the Poles, and defeated. Walesa had authority among the workers, but listened to the intellectuals, because of their education at the Sorbonne and Cambridge.
Well, with the task of intellectuals is clear. And what should make policy?
If the so-called policy, I call them, immediately after the anti-constitutional coup began to speak the truth to people that there is no choice, but now the situation would have been different. But they are silent. Everyone who took part since 1996 in the so-called elections, I believe the political dead, since they accepted the rules of the game of the ruling group. They all get dirty. You can certainly put a good face on a bad game, but none of them have no future, even Pavel Sevyarynets not, despite his youth. They all get dirty. I remember Statkevich with Sevyarynets in 2004 shouted, "Go on and tell their areas": no "referendum." It was the direct aid regime. Do not they realize that the regime needed just our appearance? When the dictatorship: there can be no referendum!
Solzhenitsyn once wrote an appeal to the nation "Live not by lies." So our primary task now – is not to participate in a lie!
Well, let's Karatkevich wins. But it's better than Lukashenka? He spits on the Constitution and the law, and she wants to come to their rules to Yarmoshyna, to become head of state. What makes it better? Here to work slogan Vaclav Havel: "We – not them!" That's what he said when he began to criticize the appointment of a senior position in the former communists. Play by the rules cannot be bought immoral: people otherwise we will never believe! People always have to tell the truth no matter how bitter it may be: As long as this situation until there is no choice, please be patient. How to endure – I do not know, but I'm sure: a critical mass increases. I liked the words of Igor Olinevich, said immediately after his release from prison, that sooner or later, an explosion will occur! I believe that here, maybe he has a political future. And the fact that they say that the Belarusians of tolerance – all this garbage! The chest still remains on the memory and Kalinovsky, and Kosciuszko! So you need to be patient.
When collecting signatures, I noticed some part of society, especially young people, to see the person Karatkevich new political face, he connects with it their hopes for the future. How can you explain this?
Some of the youth follows Karatkevich for the reason that is waiting for changes. Some of the young people went abroad, and the part that remained, and want to live here, waiting for change, and it seems that these changes embody Karatkevich. However, I ask the question: "Even if she wins this election, whether it will become the legitimate head of state?" No! Legitimacy can be recognized only by those who will stand by the 1994 Constitution. In 2001, when he ran Zenon Pozniak, we made a fatal mistake. In fact, we have tarnished his name. I opposed his participation, but then no one listened to me, and no one understood. I was left alone. Time passed, and Pozniak is now nothing to object to my argument.
And could you give some general characteristics of the rest of the participants of this, as you call, a political farce?
Today's freaks are even more dangerous than the current leaders. We at least know that he needed money and power, and that the State, he is not going to surrender. And here is what to expect in case of a hypothetical victory, we do not know. I'm afraid that we have not played in these elections and have not lost the country! At present, the most important thing – to keep the country! So we have to think and expect the wings.
I would venture to say that no one, except for Lukashenko, did not collect the required number of signatures. Remember 2010, when registered, even those who have not collected the signatures, but then said nothing. And these are silent. I think the authorities are planned in advance. It seems as if everything is done specifically to Belarus there is not one not to stain his participation in illegitimate elections policy. Therefore, the Belarusians with a grain of salt and look at it all. They all understand.
The fact that the signatures are not collected either Lyabedzka, Kalyakin any – is a litmus test for determining the authenticity of the signatures collected by other candidates. And this despite the fact that over Lyabedzka and Kalyakin are political structures.
Well, let's say, some part of the electorate do not go to the polls. But the authorities can easily take advantage of this.
So, they tell me: you go, and they will take advantage. Let them. Let them vote for me, but if you will not go to the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands! For them the most horrible – it is empty plots. If they see that people do not go to the polls, they are mad. They think that if today they did not come to the polls tomorrow, they might come to the area. That's what scared them!
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