Calm down, they did not say exactly this – it is just some irony, describing the behavior of EU ambassadors in Moldova during the youth anti-communists protests in recent days. However the details below are just as interesting.
European Union diplomats are just doing nothing in Moldova – they are the symbol of EU’s impotent foreign policy in that part of the world, the symbol of nothing-doingness. Regardless of the efforts of some EU believers (Nicu Popescu with his very good article on how EU should intervene) everyone to the West seemed bored and uninterested. During the protests days EU ambassadors kept quiet, while Russia has made a number of harsh statements and actions infringing on Moldovan sovereignty (Russia MFA – «elections results are in the interest of the Moldovan and Russian people», Foreign Minister Lavrov – something like ‘I don’t see any reason for repeated elections’, sending experts and equipment to help the government crackdown on youth protests, using Russian media to dispel the real reasons behind the protests – rigged elections – while promoting the false idea that protests were not numerous and were organized by a bunch of drugged, drunk, and overwhelmed by hatred radicals).
EU ambassadors to Moldova (with a tiny bit of exception) kept quiet when more and more facts about rigged elections came up, as they probably thought if they accept that then this could discredit OSCE and EU. Of course it will discredit if you will wait longer, since at the moment there is still a honorable way out, as the final ODIHR’s conclusions were not yet released. In due time, the OSCE ODIHR election observation mission issued a preliminary statement the first page of which (and the only page the majority reads) was very positive despite the numerous violations that affected the election results. That statement and the press-conference (also very laudatory) were used by Moldovan communists to claim «OSCE recognized and approved our elections». The latter (EU) was quick at various levels to back up these preliminary conclusions of the OSCE, even though officially the Moldovan Central Electoral Committee did not yet finish the counting (it took them 4 days to count 1-2% of votes out of some 1,8 million that voted). ODIHR (OSCE election observers’ mission) was being constantly fed with additional confirmations of elections stealing, many of described violations obviously affected significantly the election results (with that small numbers of voters), however all these efforts had the effect of dumping garbage into the space – regardless of how much you dump, it will never reach a bottom.
EU ambassadors kept quiet when over 500 young people, including many female protesters, were arrested by police, treated harshly, with infringement on their rights, and with police refusing to tell their parents where they kept them. Surprise – when civil society members stated these facts in a meeting with EU ambassadors, they were perplexed to hear that these people (ambassadors) do not know anything, even though the whole Chisinau media was «yelling» into the air providing videos, and other evidence. Gentlemen, what are you doing in Moldova, for God sake!?!?! If you say you don’t know police arrested hundred of young protesters (when even Ministry of Interior spokesperson recognized the arrest of ~200), if you are not aware of human rights related violations (the legal cases of protesters are heard at the police station, with no lawyer, resembling a Soviet production line in their quickness and superficiality), then I got the question – are you at all coming out of your embassies’ compounds, except that driving your cars to the governmental buildings and back? You could with the same success have said in response to us «Protests???? What protests???!!!!!».
Now, when more and more evidence is coming also strongly suggesting that it is the authorities that have generated the vandalism, managed and directed it (President have stated in an interview that «we let them have what they wanted – Parliament and the Presidency), that it is the authorities who got the Romanian flag and map on the Presidency and the EU flag on the Parliament. It impossible for the protesters to get to the roof of the Presidency, and switch the Moldovan flag with the Romanian because the access there goes through a system of locked iron doors. Knowledgeable people say (and this is easy to check) that only 3 persons in the Presidency had the keys. Do you think protesters would know which keys are those, even if any of the 3 key holders would claim he/she forgot the keys in the office? Do you know simple protesters who never been in Presidency previously would know that quickly how to get through all locked doors to the roof?
Апрель 11, 2009 в 9:50 дп
Когда же тебя арестуют, провокатор хуев?
Достала уже демократия в Молдове, когда такие уебаны, как ты, портят воздух.
Апрель 11, 2009 в 12:14 пп
Good and accurate article! Way to go, Dumitru!
Апрель 14, 2009 в 12:05 дп
This article is politically illiterate drivel and frantic propaganda of the crudest kind.
The OSCE observers tend to be very much in favour of the West. Yet there have been no reports from election observers of fraud.
The election was fair and the youthful designer revolutionaries are just frustrated that they can’t have their human right to Ipods in their neoliberal Western fantasy Utopia overnight.
This really smacks of pathetic desperation.
There are those in «the West» ( I’m fron Britain ) who are anti-communist who can still see that its the opposition resorting to the kind of sinister political cheography that was the hallmark of Communist revolutions.
Face facts: you lost because most people particulary the older Moldovans do not want to be plunged into further poverty after the disastrous neoliberal experiments of the 1990s.
Апрель 14, 2009 в 12:44 дп
Karl, don’t be pathetic. If you are from «the West» then use arguments and not just empty criticism of my article. Have you even been an observer with OSCE? Have you been to Moldova? Have you been here during the protests, to see how they started, and how developed? So why come up with your crackpot comment bringing nothing but you uninformed and incompetent opinion? Dude, get some time and document yourself, read articles and opinions.
One more thing Mr. Elections-in-post-soviet-area-expert, Russia is a member of OSCE, and it sends its observers as a part of OSCE/ODIHR election observation missions. They usually come from Russian MFA, and other governmental organizations… do you think these guys are pro-Western?
) Than perhaps you believe I am Santa Claus.
I have been an elections observer with OSCE, and I researched its methodology as well as the political technologies developed in Russia especially to fool OSCE observers. Elections can be rigged and OSCE may write a positive report about it. In fact, OSCE has not yet issued their final report on these elections in Moldova, so why for God sake you are writing that «there have been no reports from elections observers of fraud»? Read the freaking interviews with some of the observers and with the Chief of ODIHR’s mission (he only could answer: I cannot say, I am not.. , I don’t know,and so on). How can you say the elections was fair???
You know what? Face facts: you are just another ignorant Westerner who does not read and travel enough to separate facts from propaganda, and truth from false. And one who got his ass fat, and does not give a dang about his neighbor being robbed and killed, because it does not affect him. You should not be surprised with such an attitude, when your neighbors won’t come to your help, in case you become the target of misfortune.
We have no Utopia fantasy about the West. We just want to be able to have basic human rights respected, and not infringed upon by our government. And that would be easier to achieve joining the EU. You think we should not? Thanks God opinions of people like you don’t matter, or will not matter. Maybe United States did a mistake getting your buts saved from the Stalin’s commies, and then defending your countries for decades, wasting tones of money, even though you punks protested against it, cursing the «American imperialism».
Апрель 14, 2009 в 11:36 пп
i’m a civilian from moldova , that was in protest , and now i runned from the country just to not be cauged by them and be «violated till the death» cause i dont want comunism in my country the son of our president , has locked 4 of my mom’s bussineses , if 4-5 years ago i was staying in atalya on the beach , now i have to count the money to have enough JUST FOR GETTING THE BUS till the coledge , all over my coledge were policeman in civilian form’s and waiting to get gusy , i got out with 20 minutes earlier , and after 70 guys got caught , even if they were not at the revolution…. now they’re locked up in celule , and they’re parents even don’t know where they are and what’s with them , everybody is sending the parents from 1 place to another!!!
Our President has sucked up all the money from our country , and now he is afraid do not get in jail with his son…… that’s why he did this revolution , he bought provocateurs, its 100% , cause the article is saying everything 100% right , things , if it would be revoting…. the comunists get busted and i think ***** , the P***C , its the name of an MAFIA member that is having the power under the police-man’s….. he will be ***** also , that’s why they’re scared, there a lot of thing more that everybody knows , but don’t have enough power to get this guys F*****D UP! all the young nation is tired of communism , not having work……. and more else!
Июль 22, 2009 в 10:12 дп
Nice article! Both thumbs up!