February 19th, 2014
Members of the Visegrad Four grouping, (click here) including Hungarian authorities, are monitoring the situation in Ukraine, with special regard to the Hungarian minority living in Transcarpathia, Andras Giro-Szasz, the government spokesman, told MTI on Wednesday.
Hungary is prepared both in terms of health-care and refugee services, to deal with a potential inflow of refugees in light of the violence in Ukraine, he said.
At least 25 people died and hundreds were injured in clashes between the police and anti-government demonstrators in Kiev by Wednesday morning.
The Ukrainian people know, understand and seek a return of the democracy they established in 2004. It is too late for old world oppression. The Ukraine government has to realize they do not have the support of the people of their nation. The government troops are Ukrainian, too. They can't possibly be expected to continuously kill their fellow citizens. The people want government, they don't want oppression. There is no going back for many of them and carnage is nothing more than killing innocent people that believe their lives are over in profound ways if oppression were to return to them.
By: Anna-Lysa Gayle
Updated: Thu 12:19 AM, Feb 20, 2014
The protests in the Ukraine (click here) is just one example of how refugees end up in the United States and for Viktor Sokolyuk it brings back sad memories.
"You do whatever you're told, you can't say anything against the regime," said Sokolyuk, who entered the United States as a refugee, during the time the Ukraine was under the Soviet Union's control.
He said it seems little has changed in the country.
He describes today's leaders in the Ukraine like this.
"They still have that old Soviet society mentality. It's either my way or there is no way," said Sokolyuk.
Under the soviet regime he was persecuted for being a Christian.
Now a citizen of the United States, he works to help refugees coming to America, who were once like him....
Members of the Visegrad Four grouping, (click here) including Hungarian authorities, are monitoring the situation in Ukraine, with special regard to the Hungarian minority living in Transcarpathia, Andras Giro-Szasz, the government spokesman, told MTI on Wednesday.
Hungary is prepared both in terms of health-care and refugee services, to deal with a potential inflow of refugees in light of the violence in Ukraine, he said.
At least 25 people died and hundreds were injured in clashes between the police and anti-government demonstrators in Kiev by Wednesday morning.
The Ukrainian people know, understand and seek a return of the democracy they established in 2004. It is too late for old world oppression. The Ukraine government has to realize they do not have the support of the people of their nation. The government troops are Ukrainian, too. They can't possibly be expected to continuously kill their fellow citizens. The people want government, they don't want oppression. There is no going back for many of them and carnage is nothing more than killing innocent people that believe their lives are over in profound ways if oppression were to return to them.
By: Anna-Lysa Gayle
Updated: Thu 12:19 AM, Feb 20, 2014
The protests in the Ukraine (click here) is just one example of how refugees end up in the United States and for Viktor Sokolyuk it brings back sad memories.
"You do whatever you're told, you can't say anything against the regime," said Sokolyuk, who entered the United States as a refugee, during the time the Ukraine was under the Soviet Union's control.
He said it seems little has changed in the country.
He describes today's leaders in the Ukraine like this.
"They still have that old Soviet society mentality. It's either my way or there is no way," said Sokolyuk.
Under the soviet regime he was persecuted for being a Christian.
Now a citizen of the United States, he works to help refugees coming to America, who were once like him....
