M of A - Ukraine: Ashton Phonecall On Maidan Snipers
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Paet reports from his talks with somewhat neutral people on the Maidan, including some Olga that Ashton also knows, during a recent visit in Kiev:
- there is no trust of the people in the new government (2:35)
- all of them in the new government have a dirty past (2:50)
- the trust level (towards the new government) is absolutely low (3:20)
- enormous pressure against (party of the region) members of parliament (3:40)
- “uninvited visitors” enter in the night on party members (3:50)
- journalists who were with me saw during the day that one member of parliament was just beaten in front of the parliament (4:00)
- people will not leave the street before real reforms start, it is not enough that there is just change of government (4:20)
- the same Olga (from a civil society group) told me that people killed by snipers on both sides, among policemen and people on the street, that they were the same snipers killing people from both sides, she showed me some photos and said she has a medical doctor and that it is the same handwriting and the same type of bullets and it is disturbing that the new coalition now don’t want to investigate (8:25)
- There is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind snipers it was not Yanukovich but it was somebody from the new coalition. (8:55)
- it discredited itself from the very beginning this new coalition (9:20)
Ashton says “gosh” to the sniper revelation but then plays over it.