November 24th, 2008
On 17.11.2008 our nation commemorated 69th anniversary of the execution of Czech nationalist university students murdered by occupants’ governors in 1939 and also 19th anniversary of so called “Velvet revolution”, an orchestrated fall of hated and oppresive communist regime. The ordinary Czech people stood no chance to know they had fallen a victim to the plot created by the powerfuls whose aim was to demote communism as an outdated and disfunctional ideology but to preserve its spirit in our souls. The progressive cadres of the regime were secretly preparing for the handover of power to the forces of humanistic opposition alongside with maintaining of their influence and dignity within the scope of new structures. Manipulated nation were ringing the keys with their aim to kiss communists the last goodbye on their way to real freedom. Unfortunately despite the proclamations “We are not the ones of their kind” we have reached a new form of soft totality along with the new dogmas and taboos creating the new amorphous man for new era (homo economicus) devoid of any common bonds with the people of his origin based on the cultural, spiritual, etnical and civilizational values.
The problems of our people have been neglected by our political bigwigs for so long it has resulted in one of the biggest civil unrests since 1989. A crowd of approximately 1500 Czech citizens (often branded as extremists or neonazi by medial propaganda) gathered in the town of Litvinov located in Northern Bohemia under the banners of Workers’ party and Autonomous nationalist movement to protest against the oppression of Czech locals by the Gypsy hordes threatening and attacking their neighbours in Janov estate. After speeches held by the members of the opposition movements at the central square of Litvinov the crowd commenced its march to the estate plagued by ethnical and social problems, supported by inconsiderable number of citizens displaying their anger with the local magistrates unable (or unwilling) to make any effective measures in solving their problems. The massive police presence in the area suggested the representatives of the system had failed to liaise with the disunited parties and assessed repression as the only way of keeping the problem under the lid. As soon as demonstrants reached distant Janov estate they encountered the shaped police forces had been instructed not to let anybody through by any means and a regular civil war erupted shortly. Police in heavy armour deployed panzers, water cannons and explosives in their effort to stop the demonstrants who were hurling missiles at its ranks and even set a police car ablaze.
Police forces were panicking shortly and resorted to unprecedented level of violence not unsimilar to the events at 1989 whose targets weren’t just the active protesters, but also members of local public, often accompanied by their children or grandchildren. An elderly woman suffered heart attack and had to be transported to hospital immediately, also one of the protesters suffered a serious injury whilst operating with a detonator had been thrown at by police forces which exploded and blew all the fingers of his right hand off. Many nationalist protesters as well as policemen were wounded during the chaotic clash between police cavalry and demonstrants who were halted before the end of their march at the borders of Janov estate. Even some articles on “neutral” and “indifferent” websites indicate the police commanders weren’t coping with the conflict situation well stirring even more chaos up by their unprofessional steps allowing their subordinates to attack passerby families and even reporter of the local paper. Demonstrators eventually withdrew after finding out their effort to break through heavy armed polices forces was vain.
This wave of unrest didn’t surge all of sudden but resulted from the gloomy stiuation of Czech locals, whose rights weren’t efectively protected either by members of state or local police and were exposed to day-to-day violence of Gypsy newcomers who had been moved there by estate agencies needing to get rid of them from more lucrative areas. Desperate locals’ last resort after had been abandoned by politicians of all levels was to contact the members of nationalist Worker’s party, who formed their patrol to enquire the area at the beginning of October but were expelled by an assembly of Gypsies led by bosses of the town’s criminal underworld. One of their leaders, Vilda Matej and his bodybuilders’ company were threatening a tiny girl standing at the front of Worker’s party patrol telling her they would turn her into a lifelong prostitute earning money for their clan right in front the local police starring at the dispute unable to intervene. This sort of “promise” was accompanied by the rudest racist swearwords Czech language contains (which can be translated as “you f***ing Czech swines, get away from here, I’ll smash you into pieces right now, you white Czech c***s, you f***ing Czech scum..”) Matej was said to be a member of local Litvinov’s police in the past still keeping in touch with its current commanders who are scared of him and his bodyguards.
Workers’ party reacted promtly and organized the first protest for 18th October 2008 which was directed by the same scenario as the November’s but didn’t reach such a level of riot but served as the first call to arms and was met with loyalty and active support of ordinary Czech locals. In the meantime the minister of national minorities Dzamila Stehlikova agreed to meet the Gypsy representatives (in gambling house called Calypso!) but completely ignored the rights of Litvinov’s Czechs, as like as the interior minister Ivan Langer who drafted a proposal for legal dissolution of Workers’ party on grounds of suspicion of leading an active racist and neonazi policy.
You don’t necessarilly have to support any political party to realize something is really wrong and rotten in Czech political scene, the only solution of current nomenclature is just pure respression without any will to consider the grounds of peoples’ activities. The Czech citizens are rather sent to prison for verbal crimes (i.e. creating of revisionist webzine, organizing marches and demonstrations, waving symbols, etc.) instead of putting the situation into broader context looking for any solution which would regard their needs and opinions which are taken into account just before any elections take place.
German info + photogallery:
Syndikat-Z: Revolutionäre Stimmung in Litvinov
http://www.altermedia.info/civil-rig...vinov_676.html