The reason the global community cannot honor the referendum in the Crimea is because it is taking place while citizens are being threatened with violence. It is not a free and open vote. It is harassed and enforced by threat of death. It is the structure created by the former and fugitive President Yanukovych. He set up the country to fail in it's democratic processes by establishing militias to threaten citizens with violence and death. That is not the practice of a free and open election process, that is a dictatorship.
Pavel Gubarev in Donetsk, Ukraine, the founder of a local militia, stated the gunmen would remain in place until after the vote. He stated that openly when the militia first appeared there. So, there is no misunderstanding as to the purpose of these gunmen no matter where they show up in the Ukraine, including the Crimea. A vote under these circumstances cannot be honored.
"Self-proclaimed governor" of Donetsk region, Pavel Gubarev.© lenta.ru
March 7, 2014, 6:31 p.m
...Shevchenkivsky District Court of Kyiv (click here) has decided to arrest the "self-proclaimed governor" of Donetsk region, Pavel Gubarev.
Pavel Gubarev in Donetsk, Ukraine, the founder of a local militia, stated the gunmen would remain in place until after the vote. He stated that openly when the militia first appeared there. So, there is no misunderstanding as to the purpose of these gunmen no matter where they show up in the Ukraine, including the Crimea. A vote under these circumstances cannot be honored.
"Self-proclaimed governor" of Donetsk region, Pavel Gubarev.© lenta.ru March 7, 2014, 6:31 p.m
...Shevchenkivsky District Court of Kyiv (click here) has decided to arrest the "self-proclaimed governor" of Donetsk region, Pavel Gubarev.
As the press center of Security Service of Ukraine
reported (SBU), the court on Friday took a decision to choose a
preventive measure for Gubarev in the form of detention for two-months
under a motion of the SBU Main Investigatory Department.
As reported, Gubarev was detained in Donetsk on Thursday. According to the SBU, he was charged with committing crimes under Part 2, Article 110 (encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine), Part 1, Article 109 (actions aimed at the forcible change or overthrow of the constitutional order, or the seizure of state power) and Article 341 (seizure of state or public buildings or structures) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine....
I don't think arrests to insure a change in government is the best idea, but, when the radicals are brandishing weapons to insure voting under the threat of death, it has merit.
As reported, Gubarev was detained in Donetsk on Thursday. According to the SBU, he was charged with committing crimes under Part 2, Article 110 (encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine), Part 1, Article 109 (actions aimed at the forcible change or overthrow of the constitutional order, or the seizure of state power) and Article 341 (seizure of state or public buildings or structures) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine....
I don't think arrests to insure a change in government is the best idea, but, when the radicals are brandishing weapons to insure voting under the threat of death, it has merit.
...In his first public remarks, (click here) Sergey A. Taruta, a metals magnate who was appointed governor
of the Donetsk region on Sunday, condemned a series of recent
pro-Russian demonstrations led by Pavel Gubarev, the founder of a local
militia who had declared himself “the people’s governor,” and called for
unity between eastern and western Ukraine.
“We
are for peace,” Mr. Taruta, the chairman of the Industrial Union of
Donbass, said at a meeting of the Donetsk public council in a university
lecture hall on Friday. “We are now working so that the radical
elements that are calling for divisive actions will be stopped
decisively.”
Mr.
Taruta’s remarks seemed to signify the end of a period of protracted
political inertia here, during which local politicians and police
officers seemed unable or unwilling to stop crowds in the thousands led
by Mr. Gubarev from seizing regional government buildings....
