Tikhanovsky said the protests were taking place because people would no longer be able to live the lives they had before the events of 9, 10, 11 August, when thousands of people went into peaceful protests to defend their voices after the elections and tens of thousands of Belarusians were detained. brutally beaten, imprisoned, bruised.
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“You must have seen the photos. It was a horror! It raped both women and men, tortured them. When people started coming out of prisons and telling what had been done to them,
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it could be compared to fascism during the war. And their people will never forgive or forget. “
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stressed the opposition leader. If the first demonstrations were against the falsification of election results, now people are first protesting against the violence and the power they no longer want to live with – Alexander Lukashenko.
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Yesterday, the Telegram channel published the names of 1,000 security personnel who took part in the crackdown on protests. Tihanovsky said the “Belarus” initiative had previously warned the security services that such a list existed, and at the same time called for an end to repression, to stop taking orders to beat people, to destroy their own people and to turn to the people, otherwise the names of those now committing crime , will be public.
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“The security services are already ashamed of what they are doing and they do not want others to know who they are,
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that are hidden under black masks. So I think what really frightens them is, because at the very beginning, many people submitted reports saying that they did not want such a system. Of course, many are still driven by fear, but there are people who are aware that they cannot take on such a sin and kill their own people, so many submit resignations and positions on the side of citizens, “Tikhanovsky said.
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Speaking about the upcoming meeting with the European Union foreign ministers in Brussels, Tikhanyovsky said that she would first tell the representatives of other countries what the case was about:
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“The farther from Belarus the country is, the less it understands the situation.
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I will explain why this has happened, what has led to it, against and what people are on the streets for, and why sanctions would be a very effective weapon, precisely against the authorities. Therefore, I would first like to convey the message of what drives the Belarusian people. People who live far away from it all cannot imagine how the Belarusian people feel when you take to the streets and
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at any moment you can come to a person in a black mask and, without standing in front, grab, pull the militia in a car and take you to prison.
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I want to say that people take to the streets to defend their right to choose which president they want to go with, which country they want to build and that everyone’s point of view should be respected, not determined by one dictator. I will tell everything, describe the situation and express my opinion, “Tihanovska told the show.
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