INkundla ePhakamileyo yaseRussia iyalele ukuba kuvalwe umbutho ohloniphekileyo waseRashiya ongekho phantsi kukarhulumente ozinikele ekugcineni inkumbulo yezigidi zabantu ababhubhe phantsi kolawulo lwamakomanisi, oko kuphawula inyathelo lamva nje kuhlaselo olukhulu lwabalweli bamalungelo oluntu, abeendaba abazimeleyo kunye nabaxhasi abaphikisayo.
Ebudeni beli tyala, ummeli woMtshutshisi Jikelele wathi uSikhumbuzo ufuna ukuyibhala ngokutsha imbali yeSoviet Union.
Ngokutsho kwabatshutshisi bakarhulumente waseRashiya, eli qela “phantse ligxile ngokupheleleyo ekugqwetheni inkumbulo yembali, ngokuyintloko ngeMfazwe Enkulu Yokuthand’ izwe,” njengoko isaziwa njalo kwiMfazwe Yehlabathi II. Rhashiya, "idala umfanekiso ongeyonyani we-USSR njengelizwe labanqolobi" kunye "nemizamo yokucoca kunye nokubuyisela izigebengu zemfazwe zamaNazi ezinegazi labemi baseSoviet ezandleni zabo ... mhlawumbi ngenxa yokuba kukho umntu ohlawulayo."
Kwinyanga ephelileyo, abatshutshisi batyhola iZiko lamaLungelo oLuntu esekwe eMoscow kunye nesakhiwo sabazali, iSikhumbuzo samazwe ngamazwe, ngokophula. Rhashiyaumthetho "we-arhente yangaphandle", ecela inkundla ukuba izichithe.
Umphathiswa wezoBulungisa eRussia kunye nomlawuli wemithombo yeendaba uRoskomnadzor bobabini bawaxhase amabango abatshutshisi, kunye nesithethi somlindi wezonxibelelwano sisithi "ukwaphulwa komthetho ngokungqongqo nokuphindaphindiweyo" kuye "kungqinwe ngokungathandabuzekiyo ngaphandle kombuzo" phambi kwesigwebo senkundla.
Kwisigqibo esikhutshwe ngoLwesibini, ijaji yawisa umthetho wokuba iSikhumbuzo, esele sibhalisiwe 'njengearhente yangaphandle' ngaphezulu konxibelelwano lwenkxaso-mali yaphesheya, ayisayi kuphinda ikwazi ukusebenza eRussia emva kokuba abasemagunyeni bathi wophule umthetho ngokuphindaphindiweyo.
Umongameli waseRashiya uVladimir Putin wayekhe wathi umthetho welizwe ‘wearhente yangaphandle’ “ukhona nje ukukhusela iRashiya ekungeneni kwayo ngaphandle kwezopolitiko.”
Noko ke, le mithetho iye yagxekwa ngamaqela alwela amalungelo abantu neentatheli, athi umthetho waseRashiya ‘osebenza kumazwe angaphandle’ uyinxalenye nje yorhulumente waseRashiya “esitshutshiso soonondaba abazimeleyo kweli lizwe.
ISikhumbuzo, esandula kuthetha ngokuchasene nokucinezelwa kwabagxeki phantsi koMongameli waseRussia uVladimir Putin, usichithile eso simangalo esithi sinempembelelo yezopolitiko.
USikhumbuzo ebesenza uluhlu lwamabanjwa ezopolitiko, kubandakanya noyena mchasi wasekhaya u-Putin u-Alexey Navalny, imibutho yakhe yezopolitiko yavalwa kulo nyaka.
Ngo-Oktobha, lathi inani lamabanjwa ezopolitiko eRashiya linyuke laya kutsho ku-420 xa lithelekiswa nangama-46 ngo-2015.
U-Irina Shcherbakova, ilungu eliphezulu leSikhumbuzo, uthe i-Kremlin yayithumela uphawu olucacileyo ngokuvala iqela, oko kukuthi 'Senza nantoni na esivakalelwa ngayo noluntu. Nabani na esimfunayo siza kubeka emva kwezitshixo. Siza kuvala nabani na esimfunayo'.
“Ulawulo lobuzwilakhe luya lucinezela ngakumbi,” watsho.
Igqwetha leli qela lathi liza kubhena eRashiya nakwiNkundla YaseYurophu Elwela Amalungelo Abantu.
"Olu luphawu olubi olubonisa ukuba uluntu lwethu kunye nelizwe lethu lihamba kwicala elingalunganga," utshilo uSihlalo weBhodi yeSikhumbuzo uJan Raczynski.
Esabela kwisigqibo senkundla, uMarie Struthers, Amnesty InternationalUmalathisi waseMpuma Yurophu nakuMbindi Asia, wasigxeka esi senzo, esithi “ngokuvala umbutho, abasemagunyeni baseRashiya banyathela inkumbulo yezigidi zamaxhoba aphulukene neGulag.”
UStruthers uthe isigqibo sokuvala iSikhumbuzo kufuneka "sitshitshiswe ngoko nangoko" njengoko simele "uhlaselo oluthe ngqo kumalungelo enkululeko yokuthetha kunye nokuzibandakanya" kunye "nohlaselo olucacileyo kuluntu olufuna ukufiphalisa inkumbulo yesizwe yengcinezelo yaseburhulumenteni" .
Kwisiteyitimenti esilandela isigqibo, uMlawuli wasePoland-based Imyuziyam yeSikhumbuzo saseAuschwitz, uPiotr Cywiński walumkisa ngelithi “amandla aboyika inkumbulo akanakuze akwazi ukufikelela ukuqola kwidemokhrasi.”
INTO ONOKUYITHATHA KWELI NQAKU:
- According to the Russian government’s prosecutors, the group “is almost completely focused on distorting historical memory, primarily about the Great Patriotic War,” as WWII is known in Russia, “creates a false image of the USSR as a terrorist state” and “attempts to whitewash and rehabilitate Nazi war criminals who have the blood of Soviet citizens on their hands… probably because someone is paying for this.
- In a ruling issued on Tuesday, a judge decreed that Memorial, already registered as a ‘foreign agent' over its links to overseas funding, would no longer be able to operate in Russia after authorities said that it had repeatedly broken the law.
- UStruthers uthe isigqibo sokuvala iSikhumbuzo kufuneka "sitshitshiswe ngoko nangoko" njengoko simele "uhlaselo oluthe ngqo kumalungelo enkululeko yokuthetha kunye nokuzibandakanya" kunye "nohlaselo olucacileyo kuluntu olufuna ukufiphalisa inkumbulo yesizwe yengcinezelo yaseburhulumenteni" .
