From the Support Orange Website
After many years under the rule of the corrupted government there is a new
hope for Ukraine: the new presidential elections. Among 28 candidates the
2 primary are the opposition candidate Victor Yushchenko (reformer which
served as the Prime Minister in the past and was allegedly poisoned 1 month
before the first tour of the elections) and the government’s candidate Victor
Yanukovich (twice convicted in the past of rape and organized robbery,
currently serving as the Prime Minister, having strong ties with mafia clans
and holding in iron fist authorities across Ukraine).
As most of mass media are in hands of the government many Ukrainians
especially at the south-eastern areas of Ukraine had no objective coverage
of the situation in their country and were deprived from knowledge of the
opposition’s platform but instead were fed off by official propaganda
describing the opposition as a bunch of nationalists and fascists which are
sponsored by the West. As the first tour of the elections ended, the final
results were announced by the Central Election Commission of Ukraine
after 10 days: Victor Yushchenko won by a small margin of 0.65% .
As the second tour which took place on November 21st, massive
falsification, fraud and intimidation of opposition and independant observers
took place in order to bump up votes in favour of the goverment’s candidate.
On November 24th the election commite announced results according to
which Victor Yanukovich won by a margin of 2.85%. As much as 1.4-1.5
million votes reported to be falsified. According to data which were shown
for a short period of time at the official site of the Central Election Commission
at some areas of the south-east as much as 104% and 110% of the population
participated in the elections. Approximately 1.4 million more balloutes than
voters that actually participated in the elections were used.
To hundreds of thousands of people who have been supporting opposition
at the Independence Square in Kiev for three days and nights joined hundreds
of thousands of people more. People strike all over Ukraine demanding investigation
of frauds and disaffirmation of election results.
Most of the countries in the world claimed that elections were fraudulent
and those countries do not accept their results. The only countries which
accepted the results as valid are authoritarian countries as Russia,
Belarus, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, China, and Armenia.
In those days Ukraine has become orange. People of different age and social
status who support opposition and protest against bold and rude rape of
the nation wear and drive with orange ribbons; trees, stores and offices are
decorated in orange colors. Even wedding corteges are orange. This is the
first time for many years the Ukrainian nation has become so united and self-aware.
