Tetiana Chornovil was brutally beaten. A lot of words will now flow. A lot of meaningless words.

But no matter how and who will comment on this barbarity, one fact is obvious.

All who are now close to Viktor Yanukovych, including members of parliament representing the Party of Regions, members of the government, Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko, Serhiy Liovochkin, head of the presidential administration, Andriy Kliuev, head of the National Security Council, and also including (billionaires) Dmytro Firtash and Rinat Akhmetov – ALL, who continue to remain with him on the same team – ALL OF YOU by virtue of being on his team support everything that is happening before your eyes.

All those who pretend not to understand anything and can’t do anything, in one way or another are co-conspirators of each blow which which struck the face of Tetiana Chornovil .

You can pretend that you are not guilty. You can can turn your cowardly eyes, as if you had nothing to do with this act.

But this is your face.

It is your choice to stay there and hide behind meaningless words.

YOU are silent. We are not. YOU are the reason that this has happened in this country.

YOU promptly investigated snowballs being thrown at Yulia Liovochkina, Iryna Horin and Iryna Berezhna and now you cowardly remain silent, as you fly away to rest during your Christmas vacations.

You can walk by in ignorance. But this does not change the facts: as long as you are part of that team, you are personally culpable and support this monstrosity.

This is not a question of image, or a loss of power or of influence – this is a question of the loss of your humanity and a loss of our entire generation. You have forfeited right to decide on our behalf in what kind country we want to live.

Mustafa Nayyem is a journalist with the political department of Ukrainska Pravda.