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Campaign participants carried red and white balloons and historical Belarusian flags, holding placards with inscriptions expressing support for the opposition candidate Sviatlan Cichanouskaja, who arrived in Lithuania and condemned the use of force.
Polish Lithuanian Alina said she had come to the protest because “it is impossible to see what is happening in Belarus now.”
“The freedom of our neighbor is very important to me, what is happening now is terror. There is aggression, people are beaten, they are hurt, they are killed, and we cannot remain silent, we cannot sit at home and watch, ”Alina told BNS.
Alexei, a Belarusian living in Lithuania, said he was participating in the protest because he could not “stand on the barricades in Minsk” and wanted to support his compatriots at least in Vilnius.
“What is happening in Belarus is genocide and war declared by a man who declared himself president,” Alexei told BNS.
“We cannot stand at the barricades in Minsk, so at least we want to support our brothers, sisters, mothers, grandmothers, grandfathers here,” the protester said.
Kirill Krivitskiy, one of the organizers of the protest, said that an indefinite campaign was being carried out, every night from 6 pm to 8 pm. choose to protest in front of the Belarusian embassy in Naujamiestis
“We Belarusians and Belarusians from Vilnius have decided to organize an indefinite picket to show our solidarity with the people fighting for freedom on the streets of Minsk,” a representative of the Belarusian diaspora in Vilnius told BNS.
“We also want to draw the attention of Lithuanian society to the situation in Belarus, we ask for the support, attention and advice of Lithuanians,” said the organizer of the campaign.
Many drivers driving down the street that separated the protesters and the embassy during the campaign supported the protesters by pressing a car beep.
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