Why Kuchma's hands are tied

Leonid Kuchma Letter 30 08-Aug-2001 Why Kuchma's hands are tied

"Were you a man of substance instead of the George Soros representative in Ukraine, you would erect a statue of Colonel Yevhen Zadorozhny in the main square of Odessa." � Lubomyr Prytulak

08 August 2001

Leonid Kuchma, President
vul. Bankivska 11
Kyiv, 252005
Ukraine

Leonid Kuchma:

I was distressed to read that Ukraine continues on the course that you have set it:

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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 5, No. 148, Part II, 7 August 2001

UKRAINIAN SECRET POLICE OFFICER ASSASSINATED

Colonel Yevhen Zadorozhny, the head of the Ukrainian secret police's anti-organized crime division in Odesa, was shot dead on 7 August, dpa reported. Zadorozhny was killed outside his home in Odesa as he left for work. Zadorozhny was responsible for investigations into mafia-related activity in Odesa, primarily the smuggling of oil products, drugs, and weapons. He held the job for about one year.

PB www.rferl.org/newsline/3-cee.html

Were you a man of substance instead of the George Soros representative in Ukraine, you would erect a statue of Colonel Yevhen Zadorozhny in the main square of Odessa, you would fill Zadorozhny's post with a man twice as dedicated to fighting crime, you would send one hundred of your best anti-mafia agents backed by a thousand soldiers to Odessa, and you would give them unlimited support until all those who were responsible for Zadorozhny's assassination were behind bars, and in fact until the nest of vipers which has settled in Odessa had been wiped out.

Unfortunately for Ukraine, there are many reasons why you can't follow this path:

As you have allowed the mafia to seize control of the bulk of the Ukrainian economy and to underpay taxes, the mafia is better funded than the government, so that the government simply has not the strength for a confrontation.
In order to protect your own criminal activities, you have had to remove people of energy and integrity from the mafia-hunting branches of government, so that there are few left who can be sent to Odessa who are not themselves weak or corrupt.
In order to protect your own criminal activities, you have had to remove judges of courage and independence from the judiciary, so that even if Zadorozhny's killers were discovered and apprehended, they would only be set free.
In order to protect your own criminal activities, you have had to strangle Ukraine's press, so that there is little available today to rouse the people to anger over Zadorozhny's assassination, to monitor the thoroughness of the investigation into his murder and the fairness of the trial of his assassins, and to spread an attitude of intolerance toward the evil people of Ukraine ruling over the good.
You are forced to give Ukraine's gangsters impunity so they don't expose your own crimes of which they have full knowledge because they were the accomplices.

What a mess you have gotten Ukraine into! What retribution the long-suffering people of Ukraine are waiting to wreak upon you, upon your sponsors, and upon your band of gangsters!

Lubomyr Prytulak

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