AW: [governance] Rights issues in Azerbaijan / What will CS @ Baku do?

["Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"]

Thanks Oksana for this (needed) emotianal outcry!
 
wolfgang

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Von: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org im Auftrag von Oksana Prykhodko
Gesendet: Fr 04.05.2012 15:15
An: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Avri Doria
Betreff: Re: [governance] Rights issues in Azerbaijan / What will CS @ Baku do?



Hi,

I am writing from Ukraine, mentioned above)

You are talking about boycott. I would like to know - boycott of whom?

If you are talking about boycott of oligarchy (nice ancient word for
mafia in power in Post-Soviet world) - it can really work! Please
boycott all children of "our" presidents in Western universities, all
our "businessmen" at your business lunches, do not give visa to
Schengen and USA to "our" VIPs, their wife,  their lovers, their
children. Block their bank accounts in Western banks! This is the only
one mechanism to stop them! Even free and democratic election in such
countries can not help - I am speaking about experience of orange
revolution in Ukraine(

But do not boycott IG event in the country, which can use (of course
there is the possibility that it will not use) this tool to approach
to direct democracy!

The possibility of boycott of soccer craziness in Ukraine leaves me
absolutely indifferent. From my taxes I paid  more for Euro 2012 then
I pay for pensions, and in any case I can not return my money(

I (50 years old, female) doubt if this soccer event can teach me
something useful for democratic development. But I will be happy to
see great IG event in Ukraine - maybe with special workshop (or at
least remote participation) from prison, where Julia Timoshenko is
tortured just now!

Sorry for extra emotions,
Best regards,
Oksana Prykhodko



2012/5/4 Avri Doria <avri at acm.org>:
>
> Hi,
>
> Well I think there may be some distance between meddling and being supportive.
>
> avri
>
> On 4 May 2012, at 08:06, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
>
>> Further, at this point, with the scant info I have, if I decided to go
>> to Baku, I would not meddle in the local political situation at all.
>>
>> frt rgds
>>
>> --c.a.
>>
>> On 05/04/2012 08:55 AM, Avri Doria wrote:
>>>
>>> On 4 May 2012, at 07:51, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
>>>
>>>> The problem with trying to be supportive by being there is that most of
>>>> us do not know details of the political situation to engage in a
>>>> complicated political scenario as foreigners.
>>>
>>>
>>> As with previous situations, we find out from those who are there, what they need us to help with.
>>>
>>> Are they asking us to boycott?
>>>
>>> avri
>>
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