“Last Dawn”. Music saves lives
The opening of the
musical project "The Last Dawn", whose members advocate for
an end to the practice of the death penalty in Belarus will take
place on 5 October on the live air of the web portal tut.by ad the
internet editions naviny.by and "Nasha Niva". The live air
will started at 7 p.m.
The details of the presentation were
described to naviny.by the project coordinator, journalist Siarhei
Budkin.
“The spectators will see not just a concert. We
planned the presentation of the “The Dawn” is intended to be a
combination of various kinds of art – apart from music and singing
you can see a sand show and various video installations,” said Mr.
Budkin.
According to the journalist, the presentation of the
project “The Last Dawn” will became the implementation of a
large-scale music project with the participation of a great number of
musicians: “There will be a full orchestra of musicians, there will
be violins, cellos and a great number of other instruments. A
TV-version of the concert will be shot, which later will be issued on
DVD”.
Budkin hopes that the project will find an answer in
the hearts of the listeners: “Naturally, one of the aims of the
project is to again touch the daily issue of the existence of the
death penalty. We want to make the people think about it by showing
the problem with the assistance of artistic means. If we just speak
about the death penalty, there is one impression, but the music can
awake completely different feelings.”
Liavon
Volski will sing about crucifixion, Zmitser Vaitsiushkevich – about
gibbet
The topics, addressed by the
participants of “The Last Dawn” have been announced: Liavon
Volski will sing about crucifixion, Aliaksandr Pamidorau – about
the gas chamber, Hanna Khitryk – about guillotine, Ales Dzianisau
addressed the topic of shooting, Nasta Shpakouskaya – the electric
chair, Viktar Rudenka – poisoning, and Zmitser Vaitsiushkevich –
gibbet.
Hanna Khitryk and Nasta Shpakouskaya are convinced
that the questions of birth and death are outside human
responsibility. Viktar Rudenka adds another accent: “If we are
trying to promote a society without violence and murders, we must
refuse from them at all levels. Even lawful death penalty
is a murder, which serves as a negative example for the
society.”
Aliaksandr Pamidorau, Zmitser Vaitsiushkevich and
Ales Dzianisau think that verdics can be erroneous, as it happened in
the well-known cases of Mikhasevich, Chykatsila and others.
The
matter is that an innocent person can die because of one bad man. Any
of us. This is the main thing for me,” says Aliaksandr Pamidorau.
Liavon Volski believes that even the most malignant criminal
must have the right to realize the gravity of
the offense and repent. "I decided to participate in the project
"The Last Dawn"
because I consider the topic of the death
penalty to be relevant to our patriarchal
territory,” said the musician in a
commentary for naviny.by.
“The topic was proposed to me by the
organizers of the project."
Being
asked how the project can affect the existence of the death penalty
in Belarus, Volski answered: “Probably, it won't influence the
existence of the death penalty, but can influence the public opinion,
as far as our compatriots are quite bloodthirsty and a considerable
part of them deamand an obligatory punishment of a criminal, even if
there is at least a small possibility of their innocence. Of course,
if investigators have a plan for the disclosure of crimes and violent
methods of investigation, people sometimes confess to what they have
never committed, just to put an end to humilitation and torture."
The project “The Last
Dawn” is dated to the World Day against the
Death Penalty, marked on 10 October.
Since 1997, Europe is de facto a space free from the death penalty.
The only exception is
Belarus.
