SitiWanMahani - Sekumpulan ahli parlimen Amerika adalah di Ukraine untuk melihat pilihan raya presiden yang Washington telah memanggil satu peristiwa bersejarah dan memberi lebih daripada US $ 11.4 juta untuk menyokong undi walaupun keganasan yang sedang berlaku di timur Ukraine.
Beberapa senator Amerika Syarikat tiba di Ukraine ibu kota Kiev sebagai sebahagian daripada Pertubuhan bagi Keselamatan dan Kerjasama di Eropah (OSCE) misi peman-tauan, dilaporkan AP. Pasukan Amerika diketuai oleh bekas Setiausaha Negara, Madeleine Albright.
Hadapan pada mengundi Ahad ini, Maryland Demokratik Senator Benjamin Cardin mene-kankan sokongan Washington untuk undi.
"Sebab utama kami untuk mengambil bahagian adalah untuk menyatakan sokongan kami bagi rakyat Ukraine," Cardin pada sidang akhbar di Kiev. Wakil rakyat Amerika berkata mereka "terutamanya bimbang tentang kesan dari Rusia" dan akan "jelas menonton rapat apa yang berlaku esok."
Bercakap dengan MSNBC Saturday, Cardin juga mencadangkan bahawa "mereka akan melihat nombor rekod yang keluar untuk mengundi" .
Ohio Republikan Robert Portman memberitahu MSNBC dia berfikir pilihan raya itu akan menjadi "baik," mengakui walaupun yang keluar mengundi dalam 2 kawasan timur Ukraine mungkin tidak setinggi "diharapkan".
Orang-ramai membuang undi dalam peti undi olok-olok yang berbunyi " Sampah untuk Presiden" semasa perhimpunan anti-pilihan raya di bandar timur Donetsk 25 Mei 2014 (People cast votes in a mock ballot box that reads "Rubbish bin for the President" during an anti-election rally in the eastern city of Donetsk May 25, 2014. (Reuters/Maxim Zmeyev)
Amerika Syarikat telah menolak untuk pilihan raya di Ukraine - tidak kira apa, keganasan atau tiada keganasan di negara ini, RT ini Gayane Chichakyan diperhatikan.
Sebelum ini - di bawah keadaan yang berbeza - pegawai Amerika boleh mengatakan bagaimana mengundi tidak boleh diterima adalah bersenjata.
"Itu bukan sesuatu yang boleh dilakukan dengan laras diacukan senjata pada anda," kata Presiden Obama dan awal tahun ini, pada pertemuan dengan Perdana Menteri yang bertindak Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
Kiev telah melepaskan tenteranya terhadap mereka di timur Ukraine yang tidak mahu berada di bawah kawalannya.
Bandar timur Ukraine Slavyansk, pada 25 Mei 2014 (The eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk, on May 25, 2014 (AFP Photo/Viktor Drachev)
Di tengah-tengah tembakan dari helikopter tentera Ukraine, dan orang awam yang tidak bersenjata ditembak mati kerana mereka cuba menghalang serangan tentera - Washing-ton membentangkan pilihan raya di Ukraine sebagai tidak ada masalah.
"Ukraine adalah bersedia untuk pilihan raya," Marie Harf, timbalan jurucakap di Jabatan Negara pada taklimat akhbar pada hari Jumaat .
"Di seluruh majoriti Ukraine, perkara-perkara yang tenang," Jen Psaki, jurucakap Jabatan Negara mendakwa lebih awal.
Ia adalah tenang di bandar pelabuhan Odessa pada 2 Mei, sebelum aktivis pro- Kiev dikejar lawan mereka ke dalam bangunan, Rumah Kesatuan Sekerja dan menetapkan ia pada kebakaran, membunuh lebih 40 orang dan mencederakan berpuluh-puluh lagi. Sehingga hari ini, tiada siapa telah bertanggungjawab.
Begitu juga, tidak ada yang bertanggungjawab bagi keganasan di jalan-jalan di Kiev pada bulan Februari yang mengakibatkan rampasan kuasa yang menggulingkan Presiden Viktor Yanukovich dan digerakkan untuk kuasa mereka yang Amerika Syarikat mahu lihat.
"Ia benar-benar penting bagi penubuhan politik di Amerika Syarikat untuk menghalalkan kerajaan yang telah disediakan oleh rampasan kuasa Maidan pada bulan Februari kerana maka mereka boleh berkata:
Oh , lihat! Orang-orang ini telah dipilih secara demokratik 'Kerana sehingga kini mereka tidak dipilih secara demokratik. Mereka berkuasa melalui kekerasan," Nebojsa Malic, kolumnis di antiwar.com memberitahu RT.
Beribu-ribu pemerhati antarabangsa telah dihantar ke Ukraine untuk memantau pilihan-raya.
OSCE dihantar monitor untuk sembilan wilayah "menurut pelan, " Richard Solash, seorang wakil misi memberitahu Itar -Tass . Walau bagaimanapun, tidak ada pemerhati hadir di Donetsk dan Lugansk - kawasan di timur Ukraine yang telah di pusat tunjuk perasaan anti Kiev.
Menjelang hari pengundian, 4 anggota pasukan OSCE melawat Donetsk untuk melihat keadaan tersebut seperti, berikut yang telah memutuskan untuk tidak memperuntukkan pemerhati ke rantau ini dan juga untuk jiran Lugansk.
Menteri Dalam Negeri Ukraine mengaku sebelum ini bahawa ia tidak mustahil untuk mengadakan pilihan raya di beberapa daerah di kedua-dua Lugansk dan wilayah Donetsk.
"Kami sedar . . . bahawa ia tidak lagi akan menjadi mustahil untuk memegang dalam pilihan raya cara biasa ke atas wilayah yang luas Donesk dan Lugansk kawasan lain," Arsen Avakov pada sidang media.
Itu tidak mengubah apa-apa untuk kerajaan rampasan kuasa yang dikenakan di Kiev yang dipinda bil pilihan raya untuk menghapuskan keperluan kehadiran minimum.
Sementara itu, konfrontasi ganas antara Kiev dan lawan terus pada hari pilihan raya, dengan menembak dilaporkan di rantau Lugansk itu. Seorang terbunuh dan satu lagi cedera dalam tembak-menembak di sesuatu tempat mengundi di bandar Novoaydar, menurut Timbalan Ketua Kementerian Dalam Negeri Ukraine.
Dilaporkan, lajur Ukraine Pengawal Kebangsaan kereta perisai berjaya menembusi pertahanan penunjuk perasaan 'dan menuju ke Lugansk. Kuasa-kuasa Kiev melepaskan tembakan ke arah orang awam di kafe di bandar, pihak berkuasa dari diri - mengisyti-harkan Republik Rakyat Lugansk memberitahu RIA Novosti.
"Seorang lelaki dan seorang wanita telah dibunuh," kata sumber itu, sambil menambah bahawa beberapa orang yang tercedera.
Tetapi Barat seolah-olah berasa ok dengan sebahagian daripada Ukraine berada di bawah titik pada bersenjata api.
'Vote at gunpoint,' anyone ? US keen to legitimize 'good' election in Ukraine . . .
A team of American lawmakers is in Ukraine to observe the presidential election which Washington has called a historic milestone and provided over US$ 11.4 million to support the vote despite ongoing violence in eastern Ukraine.
Several US senators arrived in Ukraine’s capital Kiev as a part of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) monitoring mission, reported AP. The American team is led by former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright.
Ahead on Sunday’s voting, Maryland Democratic Senator Benjamin Cardin emphasized Washington’s backing for the vote.
“Our main reason for participating is to express our support for the Ukrainian people,” Cardin told a news conference in Kiev. The American lawmaker added that they were “particularly concerned about the impact from Russia” and would “obviously be watching closely what happens tomorrow.”
Speaking with MSNBC Saturday, Cardin also suggested that “they would see record numbers coming out to vote”.
Ohio’s Republican Robert Portman told MSNBC he thought the election would be “good,” admitting though that voter turnout in two eastern Ukrainian regions might not be as high as they “hoped for.”
The US was pushing for the elections in Ukraine – no matter what, violence or no violence in the country, RT’s Gayane Chichakyan noted.
Previously - under different circumstances - American officials could say how unacceptable voting at gunpoint is.
“That is not something that can be done with the barrel of a gun pointed at you,” President Obama and said earlier this year, at a meeting with Ukraine’s acting Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
Kiev has unleashed the army against those in the east of Ukraine who don’t want to be under its control.
Amid fire from Ukrainian army helicopters, and unarmed civilians shot dead as they tried to stop the army assault – Washington presents the elections in Ukraine as no problem.
“Ukraine is ready for the election,” Marie Harf, deputy spokesperson at the State Department told a press briefing on Friday.
“Across the vast majority of Ukraine, things are calm,” Jen Psaki, the State Department’s spokesperson claimed earlier.
It was calm in the port city of Odessa on May 2, before pro-Kiev activists chased their opponents into a building, the Trade Unions House and set it on fire, killing over 40 people and injuring dozens more. To this day, no one has been held responsible.
Similarly, no one was held responsible for the violence on the streets of Kiev in February which resulted in a coup that ousted President Viktor Yanukovich and propelled to power those whom the US wanted to see.
“It was absolutely vital for the political establishment in the US to legitimize the government that was installed by the Maidan coup in February because then they can say ‘Oh, look! These people were democratically elected.’ Because until now they haven’t been democratically elected: they came to power through force,” Nebojsa Malic, a columnist at antiwar.com told RT.
Thousands of international observers have been sent to Ukraine to observe the elections.
The OSCE sent its monitors to nine regions “according to a plan,” Richard Solash, a representative of the mission told Itar-Tass. However, no observers were present in Donetsk and Lugansk – the regions in eastern Ukraine that have been in the epicenter of anti-Kiev protests. Ahead of the voting day, four members of the OSCE team visited Donetsk to see what the situation was like, following which it was decided not to allocate observers to the region as well as to neighboring Lugansk.
The Ukrainian Interior Minister had admitted earlier that it would not be possible to hold elections in a number of districts in both Lugansk and Donetsk regions.
“We are fully aware…that it will no longer be possible to hold in a normal way elections on the vast territory of Donesk and Lugansk regions,” Arsen Avakov told a media conference.
That does not change anything for the coup-imposed government in Kiev who amended the election bill to remove the minimum turnout requirement.
Meanwhile, violent confrontation between Kiev and its opponents continued on election day, with shooting being reported in the Lugansk region. One person was killed and another one wounded in a shootout at a polling station in the town of Novoaydar, according to the Deputy Head of Ukraine’s Interior Ministry.
Reportedly, a column of Ukrainian National Guard armored vehicles managed to break through the protesters’ defense and was heading to Lugansk. The Kiev forces opened fire at civilians in a café in the town, an authority from the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Lugansk told RIA Novosti. “A man and a woman were killed,” the source said, adding that several people were wounded.
But the West seems to feel ok with part of Ukraine being under gunpoint.
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