Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Quotes

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West.

Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

The record of Arab regimes is disgraceful and outrageous … worse than that of the occupier or the colonialist.

There is a terrible price the U. S. Government must pay when it associates itself … intimately with a repressive regime.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

Bashar al-Assad's henchmen stomped on the hands of famed Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat. Our dictators tailor wounds to suit their victims' occupations.

Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering NATO group.

Political leaders in Belarus are routinely repressed, and their voices are muffled: Tsikhanouskaya was running for president because her husband, Siarhei Tsikhanouski, was arrested before he could start his own presidential campaign.

North Korea is not the dictator's country; it's 25 million citizens' country, and they are suffering under the dictator. North Koreans are really nice, kind, pure people. I hate the dictator and the regime, but I love my home country.

The Iranian regime continues to violate the human rights of its own people, targeting political and civil society activists.

Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator.

There's no doubt that the Chinese government is waging a full-fledged crackdown on Demosisto.

There's a lot of hypocrisy and condescension in Israel's institutionalized support for Mubarak's tyrannical rule, in its backing of a corrupt leader who established a brutal secret police state to suppress his citizens and keep their mouths shut.

North Koreans are tragically oppressed. Despite the risks to my personal safety, I feel a strong obligation to tell the world about the Orwellian nightmare that North Koreans face.

Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day.

We all accept the world would be safer without Saddam's baleful dictatorship.

Kim Jong-un's style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.

I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.