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Som jag berättat tidigare har den vitryska diktaturen börjat använda nya metoder föra att hota och hindra unga från att engagera sig i demokratirörelsen. Taktiken är att arrestera de som engagerat sig så att de missar sina tentor vid universitetet. Den som missat tentor sparkas därefter ut från universitetet. På så sätt skapar de en direkt konflikt mellan engagemanget för ett fritt och demokratiskt vitryssland med omsorgen om sin egen framtid. Som om inte detta räcker har man nu även börjat inkalla den som sparkats ut från universitet till att göra militärtjänst. Och militärtjänst i Vitryssland är inte riktigt samma sak som i lumpen här hemma, särskilt inte när ens befäl vet att man inte gillar diktaturen…

Nu har en vän till mig råkat ut för just detta. Franak Vyachorka, ordförande i vårt vitryska systerpartis ungdomsförbund. Nedan följer hans egen berättelse.

Statements of Franak Vyachorka:
”On February 18, 2008, I was expelled from the third year of journalism faculty of Belarusian State University, and thus deprived of my legal right for education. My grade point average for 5 semesters was 8.6 out of 10, I considered to be one of the best students of the course. Formal reason for the expulsion was two exams, I missed in January, serving a term of arrest in the fabricated case, on a charge of using swear words. Though I don’t speak Russian, it’s my principle. I wasn’t given an opportunity to take exams later.

I went to law against this decision. In spite of vivid process violations, the court dismissed the appeal. I applied the rector for three times for him to allow me to study again, but I was denied. I was enrolled in exiled European Humanities University in Vilnius, but I can’t go there for a exam session, because I am in the list of restricted to leave Belarus since June 28, 2008.

In summer and autumn 2008, I appeared before physical evaluation board. The district commission found me unfit. But in late September, I was said the regional commission didn’t confirm the results of the examination, sent me to the Republican Military Hospital for re-examination. I was at this establishment two times. The last time, I was detained and guarded there, as if I had been a criminal. In hospital, they hid results of examination, X-rays pictures and my medical card. They examined my hypertonia, but the discharge list doesn’t say a word about of blood pressure numbers. I have serious ground to suppose chief of the department Vodchyts G.V., doctor Tsimoshchanka M.M., and deputy chief of hospital Zharyn V.A. just forged the results of examination to fulfil an order ”from above” and fond me able-bodied.
When I said I would go to law, on January 16, unknown people burst into my ward #319 of the heart disease department, twisted my arms, beat, tried to handcuff me. They get me out to the yard by force, pushed into a car, and took to the military enlistment office. I wasn’t discharged from hospital, medical examination wasn’t completed. In the military enlistment office, it took 5 minutes for the draft board to find me able-bodied. Head of the draft board M. Shypai and military commissioner lieutenant colonel Zahorski received orders from officers of secret services.

I am an active citizen, I haven’t used to keep aloof. I consider these repressions to be a result of mu activity in executive bodies of the Belarusian Popular Front and ”The Youth of BPF”. I obey the law, and expect other people to do this. My draft into army is politically motivated. We are witnesses of renewal of ”repressive medicine” which aim is to forge diagnoses and call up the most active young men regardless to their state of health.

In this connection I say that
1) I am going to appeal t court against the decision of the draft board and actions of the staff of the Republican Military Hospital. I will seek to bring to responsibility those who support unlawful call-up of me. According to the law, I can’t be drafted until the court delivers a final decision;
2) I am ready to appear before independent medical board and go to army if I am found able-bodied. This commission should consist of independent medical workers, who won’t be pressed by the Ministry of Defence and the secret services;
3) I will demand that persons who beat me on January 16, 2009, and detain me unlawfully, should be brought to responsibility;
4) I will demand to admit me to studying in Belarusian State University, where I had been unlawfully expelled from, and I will also demand to protect my right for education.
Franak Vyachorka, January 19, 2009″
Copies of the statement has been sent to mass media, the prosecutor’s office of the Savetski district, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Defence the Savetski district military enlistment office of Minsk.
Mer om det inräffade finns här: http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2009/1/19/14155/ Skicka gärna ett mail till de vitryska myndigheterna genom premiärministerns pressekreterare: timoshenko@government.by Det har jag gjort!

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