BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

10/10/2007

Belarus: Antifascist action near the Russian embassy in Minsk

Contributed by: WorkerFreedom

On Sunday, on 7 October, in Russian embassy in Minsk passed the action of solidarity with the Russian antifascists.

More than 50 people participated in the action. Participants honored the memory of four victims, killed in recent years in Russia by the hands of neo-Fascists. So was extended banner "No to fascism!".

Four participants were detained by police during this action. Now they are located in central ROVD Minsk.

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By this action we wanted to state that we cannot quietly look as in adjacent Russia with the taciturn connivance of authorities, extremist neo-Nazi groups act openly. None of them was stopped at the preparation stage for their terrible crimes. How much more people must die before the authorities of the Russian Federation will focus attention on the actions of neo-Nazi groupings?

We, young people, perturbed by the increasing problem of fascism, demand that the investigative and judicial organs of the Russian Federation end the ignoring of the facts of crimes perfected owing to hatred, and to end the shameful practice of the application of the article "hooliganism" against the killer-fascists. We want to draw attentionin the Belorussian and Russian community to the problem of the new Nazism raising its head. It is only if we act united that we will be able to pull out the sprouts of neo-Nazism, so that it cannot take root on our Earth!

We are joined with the antifascists of Russia in their difficult daily fight!

Below information about the youth who were killed in recent years by neo-Fascists in Russia:

On 13 November, 2005, in Saint Petersburg was killed the 20-year musician of group Sandinista!, the student of philosophical department, SPbGU, Timur Kacharav. He was killed in the center of city on the Ligovskom Prospectus. The attack was against to Timur and his friend, the knife injuries caused him to die on the spot. Maxim Of Zgibay, was hospitalised in a serious condition.

On 16 April, 2006, in Moscow was killed antifascist Aleksandr Ryukhin. In the evening this day he went to the concert together with his friend, when suddenly about six people with the knives attacked them from behind. Sasha received a knife under the heart, and the second - into the head, and he died even as emergency services arrived. He was the student of the third course of the Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics and did not live until his twentieth birthday, by a total of several days.

On 27 March, 2007, around 19:00 in Izhevsk near the building of the Council of State of Udmurtia, several dozen neo-Nazis attacked a group of young people - skateboarders and antifascists. Neo-Nazis were armed by rods of steel, by bottles, knives and boards from the benches. After injuries against one of the skateboarders - 17-yr old Stas Of Korepanov passed away in the hospital, without coming back to consciousness. In it they were diagnosed: the open craniocerebral injury, the injury of brain, the break of the base of skull, the hurt wounds of the sincipital and occipital region of head, the coma of beyond the limits degree.

On 21 July, 2007, in the city Angarsk, from the numerous injuries and the loss of the blood, passed away Ilya Borodayenko. He was killed by neo-Fascists, who attacked the camp of Ecology, which protested against the import of nuclear waste to the territory of Russia. Ilya was anarchist, antifascist, skinhead (R.A.S.H.em). He was an activist of the ecological movement, an organizer and active participant in many social initiatives, including of "Food Not Bombs". He was only 26 years old:

Eternal memory to all victims of Nazi terror. Pokoytes' with the peace. You they will not forget.

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http://belarus.indymedia.org/10643

Source:

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2007101003521513