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The three female opposition politicians who have stood up to the dictator who has been in power in Belarus for 26 years have disappeared. They are Svetlana Tihanovskaya, Veronica Cefkalo and Maria Colesnikova. They emerged as symbols of the protests against the presidential elections that have been held for more than a month, and the foreign media dubbed them ‘Jandark of Belarus’. However, two out of three went into exile before and after the presidential elections, and it was reported through foreign media such as The Guardian on the 7th (local time) that Maria Colesnikova, who remained in Belarus, was abducted by a masked man. .
In Belarus, protests demanding the resignation of the president took place on the 9th of last month, claiming that the results were rigged when current president Alexandre Lukashenko obtained more than 80% of the votes.
The ‘Jandark Triad’ came together to form an anti-Lukaschenko front before the last presidential elections in July.
Svetlana Tihanovskaya ran for president and won 10 percent of the vote. She declared an objection shortly after the announcement of the election results, but was stopped by authorities on the way to submit a report to the Electoral Commission. After being released after being held for a full day, he, his 10-year-old son and his 5-year-old daughter fled to Lithuania due to personal threats.
Tihanovskaya was originally an ordinary English teacher who had nothing to do with politics. However, when her husband, who ran an opposition blog, was arrested, he ran for the presidential election on his behalf. Among the reasons for her asylum, it was reported that she was treating her son with a hearing impairment. Tihanovskaya is staying in Lithuania and is sending messages of dissatisfaction with the presidential elections through social media.
Veronica Chefkalo also joined Van Lukashenko’s front after her husband. Cefkalo’s husband was a former Belarusian ambassador to the United States and Mexico. He was one of the main opposition presidential candidates, but was denied registration. After that, they threatened to arrest him and took his children to Russia just before the presidential elections.
Veronica remained in Belarus after her husband’s exile, helping in the Tihanovskaya election campaign. However, she also left Belarus as personal threats gradually arrived. She is currently in Poland with her husband and children to promote the violence of the Belarusian regime abroad.
Even after Tihanovskaya and Veronica left Belarus, Maria Colesnikova remained a domestic. However, on the 7th, in Minsk, the Belarusian capital, a report by an eyewitness was reported through foreign media that she was captured and burned in a car by masked men. A spokesperson for Colesnikova also said it could not locate him.
Colesnikova’s actions are still unclear. Russian news agency TASS reported on the 8th that, citing the Belarusian border control agency, “he crossed the border into Ukraine around 4 am”.
After Colesnikova’s abduction, voices both inside and outside Belarus are calling for the truth to be clarified, a British Daily Guardian reported. British Foreign Minister Dominic Rob tweeted: “I am very concerned for Colesnikova’s safety. Lukasenko must prioritize his safe return. We must stop suppressing protests, release political prisoners and begin dialogue with the opposition. German Foreign Minister Heiko Mas also demanded that “the whereabouts of all political prisoners in Belarus be revealed and released.”
Meanwhile, some 100,000 protesters gathered in front of the Minst Presidential Palace on the 6th, which was the weekend, demanding the resignation of the president.
