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In reply to the discussion: Look at all those terrorists!!!!!! [View all]Tommy_Carcetti
(43,079 posts)Facts:
1. Victor Yanukovych voluntarily chose to leave Ukraine under his own power and accord. No members of the Ukrainian military forced him out at gunpoint. He was not arrested. He was not murdered. He was not given any sort of Ceausescu-esqe show trial and summarily executed. He left on his own willpower and is currently kicking it in Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
2. In the absence of a president willing to fulfill his presidential duties in Ukraine, an interim government was chosen. Note interim, because elections are scheduled to take place May 25 when a permanent government will then be installed.
3. All members of the Ukrainian interim government are elected members of parliament who were elected before the Euromaidan protests.
4. The ultranationalist party Svoboda currently holds only 8% of seats in the Ukrainian Rada. By virtue of the parliamentary system, it holds a grand total of 3 of the 21 total seats in the Ukrainian cabinet.
5. Valery Bolotov ("People's Governor of Luhansk" , Denis Pushilin ("People's Governor of Donetsk" , Vyacheslav Ponomaryov ("People's Mayor of Slovyansk" and other self-declared "leaders" have not been elected. By anyone.
6. Since armed militants seized government buildings and these self-declared "leaders" have emerged, there have been dozens of kidnappings, including kidnappings of journalists (for example, American video journalist Simon Ostrovsky, who was seized under Ponomaryov's authority, beaten, interrogated and held four days before being released).
7. Volodymyr Rybak, an elected city deputy in the Eastern Ukrainian city of Horlivka and an opponent of secession, was kidnapped shortly after being seen on video being harassed by a pro-separatist mob. His body was later found in a nearby river with his stomach cut open.
8. Khrakiv mayor Hennadiy Kernes, also opposed to secession, was shot and seriously wounded in late April 2014.
Your argument that there was a "bloody coup" in Kyiv just doesn't hold up to the facts. And facts also these freedom loving separatists in Eastern Ukraine aren't the beacons of democracy you wish them to be.