Lies that carry shoulder-straps

The Interior Minister has recently said the people in mufti who hinder filming demonstrations are “unidentified persons”.

During the solidarity action on February 16, one of these “unidentified persons” introduced himself as warrant officer Ihnatsyeu and snatched away a camera from Darashkevich. Another man in mufti, who said he was a militiaman, stated she had hit him. The people, detained by people in mufti, were taken to the Tsentralny district militia department.

How disgusting it is to catch out a minister in these childish lies. One shouldn’t surprise: an official can lie to public, because he is not accountable to it. He reports only to his chief for his actions. Warrant office Ihnatsyeu and his colleague are free in their actions, because their minister Anatoly Kulyashou lies. He covers them with his lies, “Nasha Niva” writes in editor’s comment.

Official have a strong belief that what everything belonging to government belongs to them, so if you work for state-run media, you must be loyal to officials... They have a lot of other strange ideas.

A paradox, but governmental officers live in accordance with the law of the most anti-state part of society – criminals. Those who beyond their circle are not considered people. It’s not a sin to deceive them. It is the least that can be afforded, the paper concludes.

We remind that a large number of people in mufti were noticed on the square at an action on February 16. Traditionally, they hindered journalists to perform their duties. This time every journalist was accompanied by 5–7 people in mufti.

Yulia Darashkevich, a “Nasha Niva” photo correspondent, was detained on October square in Minsk during dispersal of a solidarity action on February 16.

The journalist had to spend three hours in a militia station. She was accused of infliction of bodily harm to a militiaman. Yulia Darashkevich wrote explanations, her personal belongings were seized and attached.

The photo correspondent also said a man in mufti had been hindering her to take photos of the events on the square, snatching her camera, but than had stated Yulia had hit him. Darashkevich claims she didn’t hurt the militiaman. “I asked them: how could a girl holding her camera in both hands hit a militia officer?”