organization:military council

  • Date limite de dépot des candidatures pour les législatives ukrainiennes : demain 15 septembre

    Parties plan to include fighters, Maidan activists to boost election lists
    http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/parties-plan-to-include-fighters-maidan-activists-to-boost-election-lists-

    The People’s Front Party headed by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk and parliamentary speaker Oleksandr Turchynov is expected to include the names of several military commanders and prominent EuroMaidan activist Tetiana Chornovol.

    At the party congress held on Sept. 10 Chornovol was chosen as a member of the party’s Coordination Council along with prominent military blogger Dmytro Tymchuk. 

    Since soldiers are banned from being members of political parties the People’s Front formed a special party Military Council to get around the restriction that includes commanders of six volunteer battalions, including Andriy Biletsky from Azov and Yury Bereza from Dnipro 1 and also Sergiy Sydorin, commander of special brigade of National Guard. Many of these people are also likely to appear on the party list. 

    Party Union Samopomich led by Lviv mayor Andriy Sadovy will reinforce its list with Semen Semenchenko, head of Donbas battalion, in the second spot on the list after a decision made at the party’s conference on Sept. 12.

    RAPPEL :
    – une moitié des députés (225) est élue à la proportionnelle sur une circonscription unique (avec seuil de 5% des votants pour pouvoir disposer d’élus ; je ne sais pas s’il y a un système de modification de l’ordre de la liste)
    – l’autre moitié est élue par un scrutin uninominal à un tour dans les 225 circonscriptions (y compris, celles de l’est)

    Par ailleurs, les militaires ne peuvent appartenir à un parti et ne peuvent donc être candidats. Pour les membres des milices, comme indiqués ci-dessus, cette limitation ne s’applique pas.

    Parmi les personnes citées ci-dessus :
    • Tetiana Chornovol (Tatiana Tchornovol pour WP [fr]) dans la liste de Iatseniouk
    Tetiana Tchornovol — Wikipédia
    http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetiana_Tchornovol

    Tetiana Tchornovol, née le 4 juin 1979 à Kiev, est une journaliste ukrainienne et ancienne militante politique de l’UNA-UNSO dont elle a été la porte-parole.
    (…)
    Elle a été l’épouse de Nikolaï Berezovii, ancien député UDAR, qui a rejoint le bataillon Azov et est mort dans le Donbass le 10 août 2014.


    UNA-UNSO

    • Andriy Biletsky, commandant du bataillon Azov
    sur lesquels j’ai déjà donné quelques informations ici http://seenthis.net/messages/292568#message292575 , donc président de l’Assemblée sociale-nationale (ASN)


    ASN

    • Yuriy Bereza est un ancien militaire, il a quitté l’armée en 2003. D’après sa fiche WP [uk] http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Береза_Юрій_Миколайович, il a été président du Congrès des nationalistes ukrainiens


    CNU

    Son bataillon est financé par l’oligarque Ihor Kolomoïsky, nommé en mars 2014 gouverneur de l’oblast de Dnipropetrovsk.

    • Semen Semenchenko est le chef du bataillon Donbas. Son identité n’est pas connue de façon certaine. Originaire de Donetsk, jusqu’au 1er septembre, il est toujours apparu masqué pour ne pas nuire à ses proches restés sur place.
    Le parti de Andriy Sadovy, maire de Lviv, a été fondé en 2012
    Samopomich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samopomich

    Samopomich (Ukrainian: Самопоміч; translates to “Selfhelp, Selfreliance”) is a political party in Ukraine headed by the mayor of Lviv city Andriy Sadovyi. Founded in December 2012 with head office in the Lviv. His ideology party identifies as “Christian morality and common sense”.

    Évidemment, ces appartenances — et l’expérience du combat de l’Opération anti-terroriste ne plaident pas pour la modération du parlement qui sortira des urnes fin octobre…

    Oleksandr Chernenko, head of Committee of Voters of Ukraine, an influential election watchdog, said that is was not a bad sign for a country fighting a war on its soil to have people with military experience in the new parliament.

    “They will be better than actors, singers, drivers and massage therapists,” he said, alluding to the notorious tradition of putting people from those fields on party lists to grab votes.

    Political consultant Taras Berzovets said the trend will help parties to lure in the so called “patriotic electorate” while “leading to a radicalization of the new parliament.”

  • #Niger extradites #Gaddafi son to #Libya
    http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/niger-extradites-gaddafi-son-libya

    Forces of the Military Council of Tripoli stand guard next to the General National Congress (GNC) in Tripoli on March 3, 2014 after dozens of protesters stormed the parliament and wounded two of its members. (Photo: AFP - Mahmud Turkia) Forces of the Military Council of Tripoli stand guard next to the General National Congress (GNC) in Tripoli on March 3, 2014 after dozens of protesters stormed the parliament and wounded two of its members. (Photo: AFP - Mahmud Turkia)

    Niger has turned over a son of the late dictator Muammar Gaddafi to Libyan authorities, Tripoli said Thursday, as a government-allied militia released pictures of him in captivity. The government said Saadi Gaddafi, who fled across the Sahara desert to (...)

    #Top_News

  • 24 morts dans des affrontements entre coptes et forces de l’ordre au Caire | RFI
    http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20111010-24-morts-affrontements-entre-coptes-forces-ordre-caire

    Le bilan est très lourd après les affrontements entre des manifestants coptes et policiers militaires de ce dimanche 9 octobre 2011 : 24 morts dont 17 chrétiens coptes et plus de 200 blessés. Les forces de l’ordre comptent 3 morts dans leurs rangs.

    Les manifestants protestaient pacifiquement contre l’incendie d’une église dans la région d’Assouan, dans le sud du pays.

    Il y avait beaucoup de femmes, des musiciens, des guitares, et soudain, à 18h00, tout a dégénéré. On ne sait pas qui a tiré en premier. L’armée accuse les coptes et les coptes accusent l’armée. Des témoins parlent d’une tierce partie : les tirs seraient venus du quartier informel voisin de Boulak. La situation devient très vite chaotique avec des tirs dans tous les sens. Les blindés de l’armée foncent au milieu de la fusillade. Les accrochages se déplacent dans le centre-ville.

    Sur la place Tahrir, se retrouvent les manifestants coptes d’un côté, les forces de l’ordre de l’autre, et de jeunes musulmans.

    • Témoignage reçu cette nuit par Angry Arab :
      http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/10/report-from-cairo.html

      Alison sent me this from Cairo (I cite with her permission):

      “Tonight is worth telling you about. I went down to Abdel Moneim Riad with a bunch of egyptian friends after hearing the maspiro protest spreading and knowing full well the inflammatory things the SCAF said - that the Copts were attacing the military. We went down to find the old Tahrir protesters throwing rocks back at the thugs on the other side by the Ramses Hilton. This went on for a while till it turned to molotovs and people getting carried away badly hurt. We weren’t completely sure what was happening, and suddenly they stopped attacking. But then when we thought it was over and they had been messing with us in a stupid SCAF [Supreme Council of the Armed Forces] game, suddenly the military attacked. They spread out and chased us down side streets and were arresting people. We made it to a friends house which overlooks the bridge and saw not salafeyyeen but baltagi marching and chanting islameyya islameyya... and the army was among them!!

      Friends tried to give blood at the coptic hostpital on Ramses and they couldn’t get close because the thugs were blocking the door. Army was there but they don’t do anything. Reports of others getting beaten up but hopefully you can talk to people who are there now and were at maspiro. So there you go.

      Now the thugs are beating up people in front of the coptic hospital and setting a fire outside. Lets see how far SCAF goes."

    • Angry Arab – Aljazeera joins the attacks on Qopts
      http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/10/aljazeera-joins-attacks-on-qopts.html

      It is rather expected from the network of the Arab counter-revolution: Aljazeera’s chief correspondent in Cairo is a mere propagandist for the Military Council. The headline of Aljazeera says: “confrontations by Qopts against Egyptian soldiers”. It is more than insidious: it is rather blatant. When an Egyptian guests suggested that maybe the Egyptian government is responsible: the anchor, Khadijah Bin Qannah, interrupted him. But there are security forces who are killed. And the Qopts are reported by our correspondent to be carrying weapons. What irony in her interruptions. Compare its coverage of Egypt with its coverage and Syria.

    • Army and police massacre protesters at Maspero – 3arabawy
      http://www.arabawy.org/2011/10/09/army-and-police-massacre-protesters-at-maspero

      The army and police committed a horrible massacre against peaceful protesters today in Maspero, Cairo. Army vehicles ran over protesters. Live ammunition was used. Extensive rounds of tear gas were fired, and showers of beatings from the military police, the central security forces and plainclothes thugs.

      At least 19 people have been killed, and more than 150 injured. The toll keeps rising.

      The Army also stormed Al-Hurra and 25 January TV stations, and took them off air. The Egyptian state run TV is inciting the public against the “Coptic protesters” and even called on the citizens to take to the streets to “protect the army”!! SCAF is trying to instigate a sectarian civil war.

      The protesters are not only Copts. There are Muslims present in the protests too and are talking active part in resisting the police and the army. There are ongoing battles as I’m writing now. The unifying chants in downtown Cairo is against the army and field marshal Tantawi. Protesters are chanting: “Muslims and Christians… One hand!” and “Death to the Field Marshal.”

  • Mubarak to Step Down, Transfer Power to Military Council, Fox Confirms - Middle East - Fox Nation
    http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2011/02/10/mubarak-step-down-transfer-power-military-council

    President Hosni Mubarak will step down shortly and transfer authority to the Egyptian Higher Council of the Armed Forces, a senior Egyptian official confirmed to Fox News on Thursday.

    The group is comprised of the minister of defense, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi — who stands atop the military hierarchy — along with the military’s chief of staff, the chief of operations, and commanders of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Air Defenses.

    The source pointed out that the transfer of power will occur “outside of the constitutional framework” because under the Egyptian constitution, Mubarak’s resignation ordinarily would mean that the speaker of the house would become president and elections would be held within 60 days. In this case, the military council will “not be governing under the constitution or any legislation,” the source noted. “So they will have to define the format under which they are taking power.”