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The Belarusian opposition leader, Sviatlana Cichanouskaja, who lives in Lithuania, also participated in the march. She said she was grateful to all the people who came to the march.
“It just came to our knowledge then. But maybe someone couldn’t come or didn’t know the march was happening,” he told BNS.
According to the opposition representative, although she would like the international community to do more to influence the Minsk regime, all the measures taken by the parties are important and valuable.
“The most important step, the non-recognition of the legitimacy of Alexander Lukashenko, has already been taken. Regarding sanctions, I think this is just the beginning, and the sanctions will have to be and will be extended,” said S. Chichanouskaya .
He stressed that it is also very important that foreign countries do not support the regime financially, since the support that reaches Belarus at this time goes to the power structures that fight against violence against peaceful protesters.
The support was expressed with slogans and songs.
With songs like “Peremen” by Victor Tsoy, which has become a symbol of protests in Belarus, the protesters chanted together and chanted various anti-regime slogans such as “Get out with your OMON” and “Freedom!”
The participants of the march interviewed by BNS said it was important for them to express their solidarity with the women protesting in Belarus.
“I came here to express my solidarity with my people in Belarus, because I myself am Belarusian. This is very important to me because they are there, insecure, and I am here and I am free to express it. This is a great opportunity to show myself that I am with them, ”said Juliana Mikolutskaya, 37, director and student of the Minsk Jewish Museum.
He said he attended the event both to express his support and to meet other Belarusians living in Lithuania and to see how many people really support the country.
The woman who came to study in Lithuania said that it had become a great coincidence, because she would not feel safe in her country at this time.
Angelina Pankova, a Belarusian studying in Lithuania, said that at 21 she had not seen another president other than Aliaksandr Lukashenko.
“I think the new generation in particular is ready for change.” I want to live in a democratic country where I have freedom of expression and expression and I should not fear that the police will beat me when I leave, “he said.
He said that he had recently arrived in Lithuania and participated in those marches in his native Belarus. As she is currently studying in Lithuania, it is important for her to express solidarity and support for the protesters in her homeland.
The 50-year-old teacher Irmina Matonytė, who came to the march with the historic Belarusian flag and flowers, said she was in solidarity with women fighting against the dictatorship in Belarus.
“Clearly, the reason is universal: it is a desire for freedom, it is a struggle for European values, for the recognition of differences, because one is women, but there are other minorities that are being repressed and persecuted in Belarus, who solidarity is the least we can do constantly, ”he said.
I. Matonytė regretted that in Belarus it is becoming increasingly clear that the situation has reached a dead end.
“But there is still some hope and he needs support,” he said, although he added that a quick change was probably not worth waiting for.
The march was organized by the Dapamoga public institution, established by Belarusians living in Lithuania, to help compatriots who were forced to flee Belarus.
The organizers say in their march that they want to remember that the protests in Belarus against Alexander Lukashenko’s regime have not ended, they take place every weekend, only that the foreign media pay less and less attention to them.
According to the organizers of the campaign, the women are fired, harassed and threatened with deprivation of their children for political reasons, but they continue to protest.
The protests in Belarus have been going on since the beginning of August, when it was announced that Lukashenko had won the presidential elections for the sixth time. Opposition officials and Western states are not recognizing the results of these elections and are calling for new, transparent and democratic elections.
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