‘Almost Lynching’: Radicals Attack Ukrainian Officials, Throw Into Trash Bins

As President Petro Poroshenko signed the lustration law, the trash dumping of lawmakers in Ukraine is gaining momentum. The General Prosecutor warned that there is a thin line between the so-called ‘trash lustration’ and lynching.

Poroshenko signed the law that establishes the legal framework for checking government officials linked to the rule of ousted President Yanukovich. The law is aimed at restoring “trust in the authorities and creating conditions for building a new system of power bodies in line with European standards," his press-service said.

Meanwhile, mob rule has gained wide popularity among Ukrainian radicals, who attack officials on the streets, beat them and throw them into rubbish cans.

The violence has sprung up due to the passiveness of law enforcement, while the increase of such incidents can lead to serious consequences, wrote Ukraine’s General Prosecutor Vitaly Yaryoma in an article published by LB.UA on Thursday.

“Silent, observant position of law enforcement provokes the so-called ‘trash lustrators’ to further lawlessness, as it is well known, appetite comes with eating” he wrote. “However the line between ‘lynching’ and ‘trash lustration’ is very thin.”

On Wednesday Odessa activists targeted the General Prosecutor himself. They set up a garbage can in front of his office in Kiev with a sign “For Yaryoma” and “lustrator.”

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Ukrainians Toss Out Politicians in #TrashBucketChallenge Campaign

By Christopher Miller12 hours ago

KIEV, Ukraine –- There’s a new “bucket challenge” sweeping across Ukraine — but you probably don't want to be on the receiving end of this.

Frustrated by corruption, a lack of political reform and holdovers from the previous regime, Ukrainians are taking matters into their own hands and tossing allegedly dirty politicians in the trash.

See also: Luhansk, Ukraine: City of Ghosts

In the past month about a dozen politicians have been thrown out with the rubbish by radical protesters –- many of them members of the radical right-wing group Right Sector and protest-movement-on-wheels AutoMaidan –- in what’s being called the “Trash Bucket Challenge.”

And, yes, there is a hashtag.

Ukrainians have used #TrashBucketChallenge on social media to share the latest images and videos of politicians being dragged to bins in the capital, Kiev, as far west as the provincial town of Terebovlya, and even south to Odessa, where it all began.

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