If a million protesters had taken to the streets in Belarus against Alyaksandr Lukashenka, they wouldn’t have been shot, says Svetlana Aleksievich, a member of the coordination council of the Belarusian opposition.
Belarus is ready to shoot at protesters against Alexander Lukashenko, who considers himself president. Writer Svetlana Aleksievich, a member of the coordination council of the Belarusian opposition, stated this opinion on the radio station on December 4 “Echo of Moscow”answering the related question.
“I think so. No problem. I think so. Lukashenka even gave examples that somewhere in Central Asia someone shot and killed a lot of people, but the country remained,” she said.
According to the oppositionist, her associates “did not want a revolution that would drown in blood.”
“Any authoritarian government feels better in this military territory. And if we entered there, then these tanks, armored personnel carriers, which literally in a few days filled the city and which were around big cities, they would instantly come into action,” she explained Alexievich.
She noted that in the 21st century, the number of supporters can be increased by convictions.
“It seemed to us that even more people would take to the streets. Although there were enough, but still not a million, like the Ukrainians on the Maidan. Because if a million came out, we would have won. Nobody would have fired. These armored personnel carriers and water cannons they would have remained standing along the road, “Aleksievich believes.
She is the only member of the Presidium of the Coordination Council, who until recently was in Belarus and was at large. The writer left Belarus at the end of September.
Since August 9, mass protests of those who disagree with the results of voting in the presidential elections have not ceased in Belarus. According to official figures, Lukashenka won them, for whom 80.1% of voters voted (he has been leading the country since 1994). The second place with 10.1% of the votes was taken by the Belarusian oppositionist Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. At the same time, alternative exit polls showed the opposite picture – a confident victory for Tikhanovskaya.
Belarusian security forces violently dispersed protests in Belarus using stun grenades, rubber bullets and water cannons… During the protests, hundreds of demonstrators were injured and injured. According to official figures, killed four protesters… Known about another deceased, Roman Bondarenko, as a result of a clash of unknown persons wearing masks with local residents in Minsk. The conflict took place over white-red-white ribbons.
Lukashenka took over as president on September 23, as he himself believes. For the first time in the history of Belarus, the inauguration ceremony not announced and not televised… A number of states, including the USA, Great Britain, Canada, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Denmark, Ukraine and Czech Republic, did not recognize Lukashenka’s inauguration.
European Union October 2 introduced restrictive measures against 40 personsresponsible for rigging presidential elections and violently suppressing peaceful protests. 6 November EU imposed sanctions against Lukashenka, who considers himself the president of Belarus, and 14 other Belarusian officials. To sanctions Ukraine joined.
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