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Ukrainian Protesters Used Snipers To Kill Other Protestors To Make The
Government Look Bad?
Have You Heard How This Horror Was Made Known To The World By Ukraine’s Most
Famous Doctor, Who Organized Medical Care For Revolutionaries At Maidan?
Guess What?
The Doctor Says It Never Happened;
It’s A Stupid Lie Fabricated And Spread By Reactionary Filth To Slander The
Revolution
Comment: T
The lie that Bogomolets said protesters were killing other protesters was
spread by the tyrant Putin’s media propagandists. What a surprise. That
friends of Russian imperialism believe it and spread it is no surprise.
In the reports below, the lie is exposed.
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Mar 07 2014 By:Mitch PotterWashington Bureau; Toronto Star [Excerpts]
KYIV—Though Ukraine’s journey out of revolution remains fraught with the
potential for more violence, the fog of war has lifted enough to make better
sense of the inferno that engulfed central Kyiv two weeks ago.
Those three horrifying days on Independence Square, Feb. 18 to 20, stunned the
world, with cascading images of flaming buildings, flying bricks, Molotov
cocktails and protesters felled by sniper’s bullets ultimately sent President
Viktor Yanukovych into permanent exile.
One especially explosive conspiracy theory emerged Wednesday in a leaked phone
call between EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and her Estonian
counterpart, Urmas Paet.
The tape, which the Estonian foreign ministry confirmed was accurate, features
Paet outlining a conversation with a woman named Olga, who told of evidence
showing that the victims in Kyiv, police and demonstrators alike, were killed
by the same bullets.
“So there is a stronger and stronger understanding that behind snipers it was
not Yanukovych, it was somebody from the new coalition,” Paet says.
Russia Today feasted on the story, presenting it as evidence to back President
Vladimir Putin’s allegation that the deaths on Kyiv came at the hands of
opposition provocateurs.
The Olga in question was identified by Russian media as Olga Bogomolets, a
Ukrainian doctor who worked throughout the clashes to treat wounded.
Told of the tape, however, Bogomolets denied having any such conversation.
She said she has no such evidence as she was never in a position to compare
wounds.
“During the entire confrontation in Kyiv, I did not have access to law
enforcement officers who died, and therefore I could not give any information
on the nature of the injuries,” she told Ukrainska Pravda.
“I’m a doctor, not a forensic medical examiner to give this kind of assessment.”
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Mar. 08 2014 by PAUL WALDIE, KIEV; The Globe and Mail
She is no ordinary revolutionary.
She comes from a long line of doctors, so renowned in Ukraine that one of the
country’s leading medical schools is named after her great-grandfather. She’s
also a popular singer, art collector and founder of a prestigious dermatology
and cosmetology clinic.
When protesters took over Kiev’s Independence Square last fall to demonstrate
against President Viktor Yanukovych, Dr. Bogomolets rushed to their side and
organized a network of makeshift medical clinics for the movement, known as
Maidan.
And when a group of protesters and police clashed in a deadly confrontation
last month, Dr. Bogomolets stood among the corpses in the Hotel Ukraine and
became the public face of the grief and horror of that day.
On Friday, sitting in her comfortable office filled with antique chairs and
beautiful artwork, Dr. Bogomotets spoke at length with The Globe and Mail about
her frustration with the government’s response to Maidan and the pressure she
is facing to run for president in May.
The new government brought “in a few new faces, but our goal was not to change
the faces,” she said. “We are just coming back to what was before, just a
different picture, a little bit of a different picture.”
Her first experiences with the new leadership did not go well.
Just after Mr. Yanukovych fled to Russia last month, opposition party leader
Arseniy Yatsenyuk began forming a new government and his officials offered Dr.
Bogomolets the position of minister of health.
She said she would only accept if she could bring in her own team, conduct a
thorough audit of the operations and adopt European Union standards of
transparency to stamp out rampant corruption.
“The next day in (private) the politicians told each other that I refused,” she
said.
She also discovered that most of the senior positions in the department had
already been filled with political allies, meaning she would have had no real
control.
A few days later when Mr. Yatsenyuk was about to climb on a giant stage at the
square to announce his cabinet to the crowds, he turned to Dr. Bogomolets and
offered her the post of vice-prime minister of humanitarian affairs. She
declined, knowing that once again all of the department positions had been
filled and she would have been merely a token.
“For me it was just a signal not to join,” she said.
Like many in Maidan, she is concerned that the Yanukovych team has simply been
replaced by another team and that not enough has been done to go after those
who killed the protesters and beat up students. “We have two sides of the
coin, and we have had one side and then they just turned it to the different
side,” she said.
Government officials have not commented on the offers to Dr. Bogomolets. For
now she is building her own organization, joining with others to make sure
wounded protesters get medical treatment and working closely with the Maidan,
which still occupies the square but is coming under pressure from the
government to scale back.
“Right now we are thinking what steps should we make to change the system,” she
said.
Many people are encouraging her to run for president, including some wealthy
business people who have pledged financial support. She hasn’t decided if
she’ll run, mainly because she’s wary of accepting money that could compromise
her. She said she’s also uncomfortable with the dirty politics in Ukraine. “I’m
saying if I will [run] I will not play by your rules.”
She has already been the subject of one dirty trick.
This week someone leaked a telephone conversation between the Estonian Foreign
Minister and EU Foreign Affairs chief Catherine Ashton, which suggested that
the doctor had said both protesters and police used snipers during last month’s
clash.
The revelation caused an uproar and called the protest movement into question.
Dr. Bogomolets insisted that she did not indicate that protesters used snipers.
She simply relayed to the Estonian minister what she saw that day – protesters
shot in the head and heart.
“What I saw were people who were killed by snipers and only on (protesters’)
side.”
While she won’t commit to running for president, she said that she is ready to
serve her country. “I understand that we have to do something because if we
(don’t) all these people who died, they just died for nothing,” she said.
“I’m ready to serve the people. It doesn’t matter how. When God gives you
opportunities you have to give your heart.”
-----Original Message-----
>From: Sebastian Clare <[email protected]>
>Sent: Mar 8, 2014 2:57 PM
>To: Thomas F Barton <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [Marxism] Ukraine: The truth about the leaked Maidan sniper
>story
>
>>> If the tactic of sending in snipers to shoot demonstrators and frame the
>> government is this effective, we should be thankful it has not been used
>> against the government of Venezuela. We might also ask why it was used in
>> the Ukraine rather than Venezuela.
>
>http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/thomasfbarton%40earthlink.net
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