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HR Activist On Lukashenka' s Words: Such Mood Swings Are Typical For People With Certain Disorders

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HR Activist On Lukashenka' s Words: Such Mood Swings Are Typical For People With Certain Disorders
HARRY PAHANIAYLA

Lukashenka unexpectedly cut the bag open on the things they used to hide from Belarusians, as he met with representatives of the law-enforcement agencies.

On August 20, Lukashenka said the following during the meeting dedicated to the quality of work of the law-enforcement agencies: “The easiest way is to catch some homeless with drugs, or else to plant these drugs on an undesirable person, and call it a struggle. Who needs this? ”

As noted by Lukashenka, investigators set themselves a goal to identify as many crimes as possible instead of a systematic fight against drug trafficking. The completion of the planned tasks led to mass detentions of drug users and couriers (stache- makers).

Recently, the same Lukashenka personally stood for the worsening of confinement conditions for the prisoners sentenced under the “drug” article 328.

“It is necessary to create unbearable conditions for them in the places where they serve prison terms. If we have many of them, let's devote one of the penal colonies for this. We will establish such a regime for them that, while being held in this colony, I’ll say it straightforwardly: they will plea for death,” Lukashenka said.

What is the reason for such a sharp change of mood and rhetoric on the same issue?

Human rights activist, chairman of the legal commission of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee Harry Pahaniayla commented on the situation for the Charter'97.org news website.

- Firstly, I want to note that Lukashenka is a political populist. And over the long years of his rule, the man improved his skill in populist behavior very carefully and deeply.

The second thing I can say: such mood swings are very typical for the people suffering from certain disorders. The same concerns the change of orientation, values, assessments. I can only say one thing: apparently, he will leave with the same things he had come.

Third: much still depends on the political situation during which one or another of his preachings or morals, as well as other statements, are pronounced. Today we have an election campaign. Today he wants to be “understandable, simple and humane” in relation to people.

Therefore, he snaps at operational services, and expert communities, and investigators, and judges. In principle, their work largely deserves such assessments and claims. Moreover: somewhere a tough attitude is needed up to investigations of abuses by our security forces and courts.

But all this is said - I emphasize - to the public. To the camera. It is promised in advance that these speeches will be broadcasted on TV and covered in other ways.

This person is, to a large extent, a sophisticated ideologist who is not afraid of video cameras, or for his words, some of which are prepared and verified in advance.

Once again I want to say: this is all theatricality, this is all window dressing. This is all for external, popular use, but not for those who were sitting at that oval table in the Palace of Justice.

They listened according to the principle: “the cat is listening but eating” - its stolen sour cream or whatever. They understand very well that the system of power is set up in such a way that they are the executors of the will of this person, it is his policy that they pursue, it is his instructions that decide everything. Moreover, these instructions are given, of course, behind the scenes.

However, what I like: either because of a painful state, or because of the habit of not being on “dense land”, he (Lukashenka - edit.) from time to time lets it slip on the things that we people should not know.

For example, that he takes a direct part in deciding the fate of people who need to be arrested, or another restraint should be imposed on them. But if the head of state intervenes in specific cases of investigations carried out by the team of investigators, if the head of state dictates a measure of punishment to the judges - what independence, what kind of freedom can these people talk about?

Such, I would even say boorish, attitude towards these service people in a normal, legal, civilized state is generally unacceptable. And he easily, just like that, uses these phrases, criminal concepts, insults or threats to deal with someone in his "harshest possible" way. I personally do not like this behavior of the head of state.

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