BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

03.07.2005

Europe's Black Hole

Simon Araloff, AIA European section

Belarus Republic today is celebrating its Independence Day. On the 3rd of July 1944, the Nazi occupation of Belarusian land was over. In July 1990, the Parliament of the Republic declared Belarus a sovereign state. Many Belorussians, the most CIS leaders, as well as the representatives of the EU and the USA, consider that the independent Republic existed for four years only. In July 1994, Alexander Lukashenko came to power. During the years that have passed since, Belarus turned to be the last bastion of the Communist totalitarianism in Europe. Together with this, the policy of the official Minsk is a real threat to global security:

We present to you a broad research by the AIA European section coordinator Simon Araloff. It lifts the cover of secrecy from a huge mechanism of weapons' production and export, created by Lukashenko regime. The author used open material, as well as his own, absolutely confidential sources.

Foreword

The tragic events of September 11, 2001 became a starting point in the global campaign of the United States against international terrorism, its sponsors and patrons. While American soldiers in Afghanistan and in Iraq risk their lives in the name of freedom and democracy, in Eastern Europe, far from the sands of the Central Asia and the Middle East, on the very borders of NATO, a terrible situation exists. Democracy, freedom of speech and a free economy are unknown in this country. The thoughts and deeds of its citizens are supervised by an omnipotent secret police. Children in its kindergartens learn by heart citations from the speeches of the ruler, whom their parents call with mixed feelings of horror and scorn, - "Luka". This country is Belarus.

I visited Minsk and other Belarus cities frequently, during the past years. They differ strikingly from cities in neighboring countries of the Baltic and even in Ukraine, and make an awful, oppressive impression on an inhabitant of the West. Gloom and despondency reign everywhere. The center of Minsk is filled with oppressive Soviet architecture, a heritage of the Stalinist period. The same insipid signs on the shops - "Meat", "Vegetables", "Footwear" are everywhere, as are the old, the Soviet-made automobiles and inconvenient public transport. Most depressing are the faces of the local residents, especially in the countryside - closed, stolid, with dead eyes. All this is the result of ten years of rule by Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. He has turned the country into a working preserve of the extinct Soviet Union at its worst, the Stalinist form. Luikashenko starves his fellow citizens, especially in the villages, supervises their brainwashing with the help of completely controlled press, and suppresses any display of "heterodoxy" by means of a powerful apparatus of censorship and repression.

But the most terrible phenomenon of Lukashenko`s rule is a total depreciation of the value of human life. It involves both the people in the villages, who are simply dying from illness and numerous social and economic problems, and also representatives of the opposition in the cities. The latter have a "tendency" to die suddenly, or to disappear completely, ending up under a thick layer of city asphalt. A well-known journalist, Dmitry Zavadsky, former Minister of Internal Affairs of Belarus, Yury Zakharenko, opposition politician Victor Gonchar, businessman Anatoly Krasovsky, and many others, who were considered by "Luka" to be enemies for any reason, or for no reason, have shared this horrible fate.

Another, no less grave, crime of the present dictatorial regime in Belarus is the selling of weapons to international terrorist organizations and to its fellow tyrants. It concerns primarily, those forces of evil against which America has been battling in recent years, such as Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, and also such potential opponents of the United States as Iran and Syria. Each bullet that strikes an American soldier today somewhere in Baghdad or Basra, could very well come from an automatic rifle provided by Belarus.

The sale of portable rocket launchers to Lebanese and Syrian weapon dealers by Belarus also poses a threat to civilian airlines of the United States and other countries. A network of official and fictitious commercial structures scattered worldwide, serves this criminal, and lucrative business. In addition to the countries of the West, victims also include residents of the disputed areas of the planet. Terrorists using weapons from Belarus among other sources carry out the genocide in Darfur, which has been happening before our eyes for the last two years. "Luka" and his coterie are not especially scrupulous in choosing friends when their personal profit is concerned. Another example of their extremely close relationships with various dictatorial regimes of the Third World, in addition to delivery of weapons, lies in active assistance in the concealment of their criminal activity. For example, I possess information, allowing one to assume that at least part of chemical stocks from Iraq appeared directly before the fall of Hussein's regime in a small town, Starye Dorogi. Unfortunately: I cannot reveal my sources of the information. To do this would put in danger the lives of the people who supplied it and other data on the crimes of Belarus regime.

One must take into account the fact that this regime would not dare to commit so many crimes both inside the country and abroad, without the support of its "big brother," Russia. Presently, western special services and governments possess extensive information according to which, for the last 15 years, the territory of Belarus has served the Kremlin as a kind of a "black hole" through which deliveries of forbidden technologies are made to the countries of "the axis of evil" and their wards, various terrorist organizations.

There, in this "black hole," far from the sight of western democracies, secret contacts are in place between representatives of Russian state bodies and large international weapon dealers engaged in traffic in arms and defensive technologies. Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Sudan are among the clients of this "black hole" market. The airport in the small Belorussian town of Machulishchi serves as a re-loading point for Russian military products being illegally delivered to the Middle East and to other hot regions of the world.

The following research is devoted to one of the most terrible dictatorial regimes of the 20th and 21st Centuries, that of Alexander Lukashenko. His internal and foreign policy, relations with political and economic forces in Belarus itself, with Teheran, Damascus, Moscow - are examined through the prism of his actions in such areas, as state security and military-technological cooperation. These areas were not chosen casually, for they reveal the criminal character of the present Belarus regime. I hope that the facts brought out in this research will promote the prompt removal of a terrible growth on the body of Europe, the cancer that is "Luka's" regime. Without this surgery, the struggle of the democracies of the West against the forces of global evil will not be effective.

Source:

http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=207

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