Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Write to John Baird in support of Maidan

IF you want to ask the Canadian government to put pressure on the Ukrainian government to back down on the draconian and undemocratic laws it has recently passed, send this email to John Baird, Canada's Foreign Minister. Copy your local MP as well. Use the email provided below:

Subject: Your help is requested - on behalf of Canadians of Ukrainian descent, and all citizens of Canada   

Honorable Minister Baird,

Recent repeated vicious attacks in Ukraine on students, journalists, political figures and members of the Ukrainian Parliament (The Rada) give us reason to worry about complete disregard of basic human rights and free speech, guaranteed by the Constitution of Ukraine and recognized by the United Nations as Universal Rights. Most of the victims are beaten with wooden clubs on the face and head and remain maimed or invalids for the rest of their lives.

As the members of the peaceful protest movement have no way of defending themselves from the attacking governmental forces, they have appealed to the international community. Academics, political figures, community leaders and all educated democratic citizens are echoing what the European Press is saying - The regime is afraid of nothing except of targeted sanctions against government officials who give these terrorizing orders to beat, maim and disfigure.

We implore you as our Representative in Canadian Parliament to save lives and to stop the human rights abuses by urging the Government of Canada and our Parliament to show vigorous public consideration of applying targeted sanctions. This, we hope,  would stop the vicious attacks on innocent victims.

We also ask you to urge our Parliament to look into the proceeds of corruption and the money laundering through holding property in Canada and Canadian bank accounts by Ukrainian officials.

Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely yours, 

1 comment:

  1. thanks a million for organizing and coordinating the efforts, much appreciated; E-mail sent; Karl Marx.

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