OPEN LETTER
To the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev
and Prime-Minister Vladimir Putin
from Ukrainians, Russians, and Byelorussians
working or living in Libya
March 24th 2011, Tripoli, Libya
Mr. President,
Mr. Prime-Minister
We all come from the Soviet Union. A whim of fate made us citizens of now separate CIS countries – Ukraine, Russia, or Belarus – but for all of us only Russia is the true successor to the USSR and the ONLY GUARANTOR of our countries’ national interests and our safety as their citizens. That is why we have turned to You for help and justice.
What is going on now, at this very moment, is a blatant MILITARY AGGRESSION on the part of the US and NATO against SOVEREIGN Libya. Some may doubt it, but to us it is an OBVIOUS fact, because the situation is evolving before our eyes. The US and NATO forces are threatening lives not only of Libyans, but of anyone on Libyan soil. We are outraged by the barbarous bombing of Libya performed by the US and NATO led coalition.
Targets for bombing in Tripoli and other Libyan cities are chosen not so much to destroy Libyan air forces or air defense systems, not even to cripple the Libyan army, but to undermine Libyan military and civilian infrastructure. This very morning, March 24th, the NATO and US aircraft kept bombing Tripoli’s outskirts of Tajura. Among other things, Tajura is the place where the Libyan Nuclear Research Center is located. All air force and air defense facilities there were completely destroyed in the first two days of bombing. Tajura has no active military defense sites left. But this morning the Libyan army’s barracks were attacked. The barracks are situated in a densely populated RESIDENTIAL AREA, close to the country’s largest Cardiac Center. Neither civilians, nor medics had ever thought of the barracks as a possible target for attack. That is why no residents or patients had been evacuated.
Bombs and missiles hit RESIDENTIAL houses. Some of them exploded near the hospital. In the Cardiac Center many windows were smashed; in the Obstetrics block for women with cardiac diseases parts of wall and roof fell. All this resulted in ten cases of miscarriage; several newborn babies died; the women are now in intensive care; medics are fighting for their lives. We ourselves and our colleges are on a 7-day work week to save our patients. In the residential area hit by bombs and missiles there are dozens of killed or injured. Our former compatriots are operating and resuscitating them. By the number of dead and wounded, this has been the bloodiest day since the beginning of the current unrest in Libya. Do they call it “protection of civilians”?
As eyewitnesses and participants in all this, we can call it nothing but GENOCIDE committed by the US and its allies against the PEOPLE of Libya. And we are ready to repeat it under oath. We have already seen it the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. The CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY the coalition forces are committing now are of the kind the fathers and grandfathers of the current Western leaders and their henchmen committed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in Dresden where mass murder of civilians was a means to INTIMIDATE the people, to break their will to fight. Germans remember it; that is why Germany has refused to take part in the new massacre. Today, they are using the same methods to make Libyans betray their leader and their legitimate government, and surrender their oil riches to the coalition countries.
We realize the futility of appealing to the “International Community” to save the people of Libya and us, living in this country. Our only hope is Russia with its ability to veto any UN resolution. And in particular, Russia’s leaders – its President and Prime-Minister.
In You are our hopes, as they were when we took the decision to stay in Libya and help its people, thus and first of all, carrying out our professional duty as medics. We saw that after the failure of the coup at the end of February the Libyan government was successfully restoring peace and order. It was clear to everyone that without US intervention life in the country would very soon return to normal. Being sure that Russia would veto any military aggression on the part of the US and its allies, we decided to stay in Libya. Unfortunately, we were wrong. Russia believed American lies and did not thwart the criminal decision pushed through the UN by France and the US.
We – Ukrainians, Russians, and Byelorussians (mainly medics) – have been working in Libya for many years (from 2 to 20). We do know how people live here and we can say that very few countries provide such social security to its citizens as Libya does. Healthcare is free here. Hospitals have state-of-the-art medical equipment. Education is free. Gifted students are sent to study abroad. All expenses are paid by the government. Each newlywed couple receives 60000 Libyan dinars (app. $50000 ) in aid. Credits provided by the government are interest-free. Government subsidies make car prices much lower than in Europe, so that any family can afford it. Petrol and bread cost all but nothing. People engaged in agriculture do not pay taxes. Libyans are a calm and peaceful people, abstaining from alcohol and very religious.
Today they are suffering. In February normal life in the country was disrupted by gangs of criminals and drugged youths – those who in Western media somehow came to be known as “peaceful protesters”. They were armed. They attacked police stations, government buildings, and military facilities. Blood was shed. Their puppeteers had an obvious purpose – control over Libyan oil. They misled the international community saying that Libyans are fighting against the regime. Is there anyone who would not embrace such a “regime”? If we had it in Ukraine or Russia, we would not be here – we would be working at home enjoying social security and supporting the "regime" by all possible means.
If the US or EU have nothing else to do, they will do much better if they turn their attention to disaster-stricken Japan, to Israeli bombings of Palestine, to the growing audacity and impunity of Somali pirates, or to the plight of Arab immigrant in France – Libyans will themselves solve their problems.
We see how they are trying to make another Iraq out of Libya. This is an act of genocide against a whole nation and those who with it. As medics, we are doing our PROFESSIONAL DUTY. We cannot leave Libyans in the lurch, to suffer annihilation by the anti-Libyan coalition. Also, we realize that after all foreigners have left the country there will remain nobody to tell the world the truth. The few remaining diplomats were gagged long ago. In such circumstances Americans will simply massacre the people. This is why our only chance to SURVIVE is Russia’s firm position in the Security Council.
We hope that You, Mr. President, and You, Mr. Prim-Minister, as Russian citizens and people of conscience, will never let American and European fascists of the 21st century destroy the freedom-loving people of Libya and those who are with them today.
This is why we urge Russia to use its veto – paid by millions of lives of Soviet people who died in the Second World War – to STOP THE AGGRESSION against a sovereign country, IMMEDIATELY HALT THE US AND NATO BOMBINGS, and demand that the UN send its troops to the conflict zone in Libya.
HANDS OFF LIBYA!
With the very best regards and a firm belief
in Your wisdom and honesty,
Citizens of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and other CIS countries
now stationed in Libya
We still keep collecting signatures under the appeal to the leaders of Russia and the Petition to the Hague Tribunal which is to be established in connection with the US and NATO crimes in Libya
PS. We enclose as an attachment a poem about Libya written by one of our colleagues, with whom we all are totally agree:
To Libya
How can one disclose this lie? It is impossible,
If the lie is necessary to the Great of this world.
So my heart beats anxiously:
The country dies because of this slander.
The reporters are lying at will,
They construct a thick wall against the truth,
Calling white black and black white.
But what is the Libyans’ fault?
They are deeply astonished by all these lies.
Oh, the World of Goodness, please, hear their cry!
But prim London reverted his eyes,
And prideful Paris deliberately fell asleep.
It is a great pity that even once righteous and wise
Rome fears to tell the truth!
The Earth turns into Sodom:
So why all of us keep silent?!
USA always remain right by using ruses;
Listening heartily to the tinkling of coins
They will kill without hesitation
The peace and happiness of the peoples’ state to get oil.
Where is the Dove with the branch of olive-tree?
Even for him the load became beyond its strength…
And why you keep aloof, once fair
And honest former Soviet Union?
You are all used to shake hands heartily with Qaddafi,
Bewitched by his strong and unusual personality,
So why now, like black ravens,
You are looking for the new war?
Lidiya
We appeal to all people of good will pleading them
to support our Petition to the leaders of Russia and sign it too.
Today the American war hawks destroy Libya,
But tomorrow ANY STATE would become the object of their aggression!
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To the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev
and Prime-Minister Vladimir Putin
from Ukrainians, Russians, and Byelorussians
working or living in Libya
March 24th 2011, Tripoli, Libya
Mr. President,
Mr. Prime-Minister
We all come from the Soviet Union. A whim of fate made us citizens of now separate CIS countries – Ukraine, Russia, or Belarus – but for all of us only Russia is the true successor to the USSR and the ONLY GUARANTOR of our countries’ national interests and our safety as their citizens. That is why we have turned to You for help and justice.
What is going on now, at this very moment, is a blatant MILITARY AGGRESSION on the part of the US and NATO against SOVEREIGN Libya. Some may doubt it, but to us it is an OBVIOUS fact, because the situation is evolving before our eyes. The US and NATO forces are threatening lives not only of Libyans, but of anyone on Libyan soil. We are outraged by the barbarous bombing of Libya performed by the US and NATO led coalition.
Targets for bombing in Tripoli and other Libyan cities are chosen not so much to destroy Libyan air forces or air defense systems, not even to cripple the Libyan army, but to undermine Libyan military and civilian infrastructure. This very morning, March 24th, the NATO and US aircraft kept bombing Tripoli’s outskirts of Tajura. Among other things, Tajura is the place where the Libyan Nuclear Research Center is located. All air force and air defense facilities there were completely destroyed in the first two days of bombing. Tajura has no active military defense sites left. But this morning the Libyan army’s barracks were attacked. The barracks are situated in a densely populated RESIDENTIAL AREA, close to the country’s largest Cardiac Center. Neither civilians, nor medics had ever thought of the barracks as a possible target for attack. That is why no residents or patients had been evacuated.
Bombs and missiles hit RESIDENTIAL houses. Some of them exploded near the hospital. In the Cardiac Center many windows were smashed; in the Obstetrics block for women with cardiac diseases parts of wall and roof fell. All this resulted in ten cases of miscarriage; several newborn babies died; the women are now in intensive care; medics are fighting for their lives. We ourselves and our colleges are on a 7-day work week to save our patients. In the residential area hit by bombs and missiles there are dozens of killed or injured. Our former compatriots are operating and resuscitating them. By the number of dead and wounded, this has been the bloodiest day since the beginning of the current unrest in Libya. Do they call it “protection of civilians”?
As eyewitnesses and participants in all this, we can call it nothing but GENOCIDE committed by the US and its allies against the PEOPLE of Libya. And we are ready to repeat it under oath. We have already seen it the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. The CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY the coalition forces are committing now are of the kind the fathers and grandfathers of the current Western leaders and their henchmen committed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in Dresden where mass murder of civilians was a means to INTIMIDATE the people, to break their will to fight. Germans remember it; that is why Germany has refused to take part in the new massacre. Today, they are using the same methods to make Libyans betray their leader and their legitimate government, and surrender their oil riches to the coalition countries.
We realize the futility of appealing to the “International Community” to save the people of Libya and us, living in this country. Our only hope is Russia with its ability to veto any UN resolution. And in particular, Russia’s leaders – its President and Prime-Minister.
In You are our hopes, as they were when we took the decision to stay in Libya and help its people, thus and first of all, carrying out our professional duty as medics. We saw that after the failure of the coup at the end of February the Libyan government was successfully restoring peace and order. It was clear to everyone that without US intervention life in the country would very soon return to normal. Being sure that Russia would veto any military aggression on the part of the US and its allies, we decided to stay in Libya. Unfortunately, we were wrong. Russia believed American lies and did not thwart the criminal decision pushed through the UN by France and the US.
We – Ukrainians, Russians, and Byelorussians (mainly medics) – have been working in Libya for many years (from 2 to 20). We do know how people live here and we can say that very few countries provide such social security to its citizens as Libya does. Healthcare is free here. Hospitals have state-of-the-art medical equipment. Education is free. Gifted students are sent to study abroad. All expenses are paid by the government. Each newlywed couple receives 60000 Libyan dinars (app. $50000 ) in aid. Credits provided by the government are interest-free. Government subsidies make car prices much lower than in Europe, so that any family can afford it. Petrol and bread cost all but nothing. People engaged in agriculture do not pay taxes. Libyans are a calm and peaceful people, abstaining from alcohol and very religious.
Today they are suffering. In February normal life in the country was disrupted by gangs of criminals and drugged youths – those who in Western media somehow came to be known as “peaceful protesters”. They were armed. They attacked police stations, government buildings, and military facilities. Blood was shed. Their puppeteers had an obvious purpose – control over Libyan oil. They misled the international community saying that Libyans are fighting against the regime. Is there anyone who would not embrace such a “regime”? If we had it in Ukraine or Russia, we would not be here – we would be working at home enjoying social security and supporting the "regime" by all possible means.
If the US or EU have nothing else to do, they will do much better if they turn their attention to disaster-stricken Japan, to Israeli bombings of Palestine, to the growing audacity and impunity of Somali pirates, or to the plight of Arab immigrant in France – Libyans will themselves solve their problems.
We see how they are trying to make another Iraq out of Libya. This is an act of genocide against a whole nation and those who with it. As medics, we are doing our PROFESSIONAL DUTY. We cannot leave Libyans in the lurch, to suffer annihilation by the anti-Libyan coalition. Also, we realize that after all foreigners have left the country there will remain nobody to tell the world the truth. The few remaining diplomats were gagged long ago. In such circumstances Americans will simply massacre the people. This is why our only chance to SURVIVE is Russia’s firm position in the Security Council.
We hope that You, Mr. President, and You, Mr. Prim-Minister, as Russian citizens and people of conscience, will never let American and European fascists of the 21st century destroy the freedom-loving people of Libya and those who are with them today.
This is why we urge Russia to use its veto – paid by millions of lives of Soviet people who died in the Second World War – to STOP THE AGGRESSION against a sovereign country, IMMEDIATELY HALT THE US AND NATO BOMBINGS, and demand that the UN send its troops to the conflict zone in Libya.
HANDS OFF LIBYA!
With the very best regards and a firm belief
in Your wisdom and honesty,
Citizens of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and other CIS countries
now stationed in Libya
We still keep collecting signatures under the appeal to the leaders of Russia and the Petition to the Hague Tribunal which is to be established in connection with the US and NATO crimes in Libya
PS. We enclose as an attachment a poem about Libya written by one of our colleagues, with whom we all are totally agree:
To Libya
How can one disclose this lie? It is impossible,
If the lie is necessary to the Great of this world.
So my heart beats anxiously:
The country dies because of this slander.
The reporters are lying at will,
They construct a thick wall against the truth,
Calling white black and black white.
But what is the Libyans’ fault?
They are deeply astonished by all these lies.
Oh, the World of Goodness, please, hear their cry!
But prim London reverted his eyes,
And prideful Paris deliberately fell asleep.
It is a great pity that even once righteous and wise
Rome fears to tell the truth!
The Earth turns into Sodom:
So why all of us keep silent?!
USA always remain right by using ruses;
Listening heartily to the tinkling of coins
They will kill without hesitation
The peace and happiness of the peoples’ state to get oil.
Where is the Dove with the branch of olive-tree?
Even for him the load became beyond its strength…
And why you keep aloof, once fair
And honest former Soviet Union?
You are all used to shake hands heartily with Qaddafi,
Bewitched by his strong and unusual personality,
So why now, like black ravens,
You are looking for the new war?
Lidiya
We appeal to all people of good will pleading them
to support our Petition to the leaders of Russia and sign it too.
Today the American war hawks destroy Libya,
But tomorrow ANY STATE would become the object of their aggression!
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