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“It will be done in Minsk on Sunday. Because they mostly walk on Sundays. Well, it showed what it’s worth. You also saw, well. And now it is necessary to explain to everyone once, warn, and then there is no need to calm down,” he said Lukashenko, whose words were quoted on Tuesday by the state news agency BelTA.
Mr. Lukashenko said he was convinced that students could not do anything at such events, as participating in them was a violation of the law.
“It just came to our knowledge then. Don’t persuade anything. Here you came, you explained: in that order. You want to learn, to learn. You don’t want children [tai] it’s better to go out alone, ”he said.
According to Lukashenko, the rector should be the first to say that “that’s how many people don’t want to study.”
“Well, you don’t want to, you don’t have to. Who: the army, who will go to work or somewhere else. It is a right of choice. Especially now,” he stressed.
For more than two months there have been unprecedented protests in Belarus over the August 9 presidential election, which was won by the authoritarian Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since 1994. The opposition and western countries consider these elections to be rigged.
With the expansion of the protest movement, large demonstrations are taking place in Minsk and other Belarusian cities. Tens of thousands of people take to the streets every Sunday.
Popular opposition candidate Sviatlana Cichanouskaya, who was granted asylum in Lithuania, announced last week that Lukashenko must resign before October 25. The opposition leader has warned that otherwise a devastating general strike will be launched.
Cichanouskaya, who considers herself a true winner of the August elections, also said that Lukashenko must free political prisoners and stop “state terror” against peaceful protesters.
Thousands of people have been arrested in Belarus during this wave of unrest, several have been killed in militia clashes with protesters, and there have been reports of horrific human rights abuses in prisons and detention centers. Many detainees said officials tortured, beat and humiliated them.
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