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“Along with the services of the military, include those that you think are necessary. Immediately search all idle and wasteful women and put them to work, “Lukashenko said.
He is quoted by Pul pervogo, a channel of the Telegram correspondence platform close to the presidency.
According to Lukashenko, “an idle person who does not work today is not just a street protester, but a future criminal who commits crimes every day, every week, every month.”
“And we spend a lot of money investigating these crimes, and then we keep some more in not too distant places,” he said.
“I repeat: make everyone work. Everyone should have a list of those women who need to work,” Lukashenko said in a statement to meeting participants.
Belarus has been holding massive protests for nearly four months since the August 9 presidential elections, which were officially announced by Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since 1994. The opposition and Western democracies consider these elections rigged.
The protesters are demanding the resignation of Lukashenko, the release of political prisoners and new elections.
According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the human rights situation in Belarus continues to deteriorate, and peaceful protesters are persecuted with disproportionate force. From the beginning of the protests in Belarus until the beginning of December, more than 27 thousand people were arrested. people. Hundreds of protesters were arrested each week in November, protesters were reportedly increasingly treated and punished.
Lukashenko has been trying for several years to fight the so-called “profligates”. The previously issued Social Dependents Alert Order introduced an annual fee of 20 basic salaries (about 224 euros) for Belarusian citizens, foreigners permanently residing in the country, and stateless persons working less than 183 calendar days per year.
However, the promulgation of this order provoked protests from the people of Belarus. In February and March 2017, several unauthorized marches by non-residents took place in Minsk and other major cities in the country, and the order was suspended.
At the end of January 2018, Lukashenko signed an order abolishing the “waste tax” for the unemployed. Under the new decree, unemployed people of working age are exempt from the tax on the financing of public spending, but must pay the full price for the range of services they receive.
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