One Iraqi was killed three times
In Soviet times, there was one well-known euphemism. When our valiant pilots or peveoshniki shot down a foreign plane that violated the border, it was not openly mentioned in the press. Instead, the wording was used: someone else’s plane “went towards the sea”. The informal championship organized by Lithuania and Belarus on the transfer of illegal migrants from third world countries across their common border gave a new breath to this very unkind tradition. And at the same time, he very clearly highlighted the moral and political “physiognomies” of all the participants in the conflict, who are so fond of speculating about morality and high values.
Photo: president.gov.by.
As for “all participants”, however, I was overreacting. The moral and political face of Alexander Lukashenko has been highlighted for so long and so well that you will not find anything new there-no matter how hard you try. Instead, the current “spotlight beam” highlighted such forgotten qualities of the Father, as his ability to find the most vulnerable place of the enemy and deliver an asymmetric, but very painful blow there.
A brief history of the issue. For some reason, the small and proud country of Lithuania has suddenly decided in recent years that it is a political superpower, obliged to contribute in every possible way to the change of power among its “backward neighbors” such as Russia and Belarus. Holding numerous emigrant “Forums of free Russia” and providing Svetlana Tikhanovskaya with a platform for her activities as the “legitimately elected president of Belarus” are just the brightest of the cute political pranks of Vilnius.
Moscow-apparently, for lack of other alternatives — mostly ignored these pranks. But the hot guy Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko decided to show a creative approach. The country, which is de facto mono-ethnic (86.4% of its population, according to official statistics, are Lithuanians), suddenly crowds of illegal migrants fromFrom Africa and the Middle East. And Lukashenka answered all the questions and complaints and answers in the style: I don’t know anything, you invited them to yourself! And then something happened that the inexorable logic of the development of events had been pushing for a long time: an Iraqi citizen who was shot during his “walk” through the border strip became a victim of “hot to the deadly Lithuanian hospitality”.
This tragic event has become the reason for a new powerful information war. The Belarusian state news agency “Belta”: “The shocking murder of an Iraqi who was returning from Lithuania was immediately reported to the President of Belarus… The reaction was immediate. The Investigative Committee, under the supervision of the Prosecutor’s Office, was instructed to immediately begin an investigation. To interview, among other things, local residents (they were the ones who reported about a beaten man who died in the arms of border guards)… The investigation of the situation as a whole is under the control of the head of state.”
The thesis about the “Iraqi who was returning from Lithuania” sounds, you must agree, somewhat ambiguous. But everything else is very touching. We have always suspected that human rights are everything for Lukashenka. And now we are finally convinced of this.
The reaction to the incident of the top leaders in Vilnius was also very interesting. I quote the Lithuanian information portal Delfi: “Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrid Shimonite said:” I am not aware of any excesses that have occurred on the border of Lithuania and Belarus. The Belarusian authorities are responsible for what is happening in Belarus.” She added that earlier ” the Minsk regime spread various false stories to compromise Lithuanian officials.” I can’t help but quote the Minister of Internal Affairs of Lithuania Agne Bilolaite: “This is nonsense, fairy tales of the brothers Grimm!”
Harsh women now rule the Lithuanian state, nothing can be said. They don’t say directly that there was no dead Iraqi. Only hints are made to this, which are then very easy to refuse. And no ritual words of regret, no condolences, no promises to investigate. Only one nakedstatement: they say, even if there was a dead Iraqi, this is a problem exclusively for Belarus. However, even more than the reaction of the Lithuanian authorities, I was struck by the reaction of the “mouthpiece of progressive humanity”, which I diligently read daily in the form of the British newspaper “Guardian”. A reaction that was reduced to the absence of any reaction.
The Guardian presented the recent episode with the runner Kristina Timanovskaya as the main news of the day. But about this news — complete silence. I will not risk reproaching the immaculately politically correct journalists of this media with a biased attitude towards the citizens of third world countries. So, it’s all about their unwillingness to play along with such a “bad guy” as Alexander Lukashenko. In short, everything is as old as the world: there are “friends” — good guys who, by definition, cannot do anything bad — and “strangers” — bad guys whose arguments and statements are obviously information garbage.
Everything is clear and logical, and it is also very sad-especially for those citizens of Africa and the Middle East who will continue to try to get to hospitable Lithuania through even more hospitable Belarus. What is the moral? Probably because this is how big politics is done. Woe to those who failed to jump out of her way in time, and a warning to everyone else.