Militant Ales Beliatski, Russian NGO Memorial and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties unite against Moscow’s ambitions by receiving the prestigious award in Oslo
The winners of the Nobel Peace Prize – Belarusian militant Ales Beliatski, the Russian NGO Memorial and the Center for Civil Liberties of Ukraine – denounced Vladimir Putin’s “meaningless and criminal” war, as they accepted the prestigious prize on Saturday. names during the event in the Norwegian capital Oslo.
“The people of Ukraine want peace more than anyone else in the world,” said Oleksandra Matviichuk, director of the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties. “But you don’t achieve peace for an attacked country by laying down your arms. That would not be peace, but occupation,” he added.
Memorial’s president, Russian Yan Rachinski, in turn denounced his country’s “imperial aspirations”, saying that “resistance to Russia now amounts to fascism”. A distortion that provides an “ideological justification for the senseless and criminal offensive war against Ukraine,” he said.
The third winner, Belarusian activist Ales Beliatski, founder of the human rights defense NGO Viasna, has been in prison since July 2021. On his behalf, his wife Natalia Pinchuk referred to the fight against “the international dictatorships”. . In Ukraine, Russia “wants to establish a slave dictatorship, just like in present-day Belarus, where the voice of the oppressed people is ignored, with Russian military bases, heavy economic dependence and a Russification of culture and language,” he said.
Source: La Verdad
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