Thursday, November 24, 2005

To keep you going for a couple of days

I'll be away for a few days but an interesting Amnesty International initiative is getting underway in Poland today, as reported by Radio Polonia.

The campaign will highlight the human rights violations going on in Belarus in relation to freedom of speech, or more accurately absence of freedom of speech.

So, is this an example of how to put pressure on a regime to change the way it functions without getting heavy handed? Is this another example of an ineffectual approach when we should go in there, guns blazing and overthrow Lukashenko? Or is this a misguided attempt to inflict our values on another culture?

Let me know.

4 Comments:

At 3:10 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'd comment/discuss your questions further, if I knew more about this. I do know that Belarus was once part of the old Soviet regime.

Question: Is there a specific ethnic group in Belarus that is being targeted?

 
At 5:04 pm, Blogger beatroot said...

One ethnic group is the Polish minority there, which have veeb having a bit of a hard time of it as Lukashenko thinks that Poland is working to bring down his grubby little regime.

 
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