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“It just came to our attention then. We wanted to prevent decomposition in our country. We wanted a dialogue to start in society,” said S. Aleksijevič in a statement posted on the website of the Belarusian PEN Center.
He called on the Russian intelligentsia to intensify their condemnation of the brutality of the Belarusian power structures.
“I still want to address the Russian intelligentsia, let’s call it that, according to an old custom. Why are you silent? We only hear rare voices of support. Why are you silent when you see a small and proud nation trampling? We are still your brothers. And I want to tell my nation that I love it. I am proud of it, “wrote S. Aleksijevič.
He regretted the persecution of members of the Coordinating Council of the opposition.
“There are no more like-minded people in the Presidium of the Coordinating Council. All in prison or expelled abroad. He took the last one today, Maxim Znak. Initially they kidnapped us to the country, they kidnapped the best of us. But hundreds more will come. to the places of those who have been uprooted from our ranks. Rebels in the Coordinating Council. The country has rebelled, “he said.
Alexeievich also assured that he did not intend to leave Belarus.
“No, I don’t want to,” he said in response to a question from reporters.
“But you know what their methods (power structures) are,” added the writer.
Alexeievich said that Maryja Kalesnikava, a member of the Presidium of the Coordinating Council, “put an end to this practice of sending people somewhere.”
The writer reported that on Wednesday morning someone “knocked incessantly at the door” which was a “professional call”, causing her to be alarmed. She also said that back in August, immediately after the presidential elections, she noticed that it was being followed. “And that has always been the case,” he added.
On Wednesday morning, unknown persons were reported trying to break into S. Aleksijevič’s apartment. To protect the writer from possible arrest, she was visited by diplomats from Lithuania and other European Union countries.
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