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Svetlana Alexeyevich herself told her Swedish translator Kajsa Öberg Lindsten how men dressed in black were guarding her home and that on Wednesday they tried to break into her apartment. Since the elections, it is risky to be an opposition politician in Belarus.
Alexander Lukashenko’s main rival, Svetlana Tichanovskaya and Veronika Tspekalo, live in exile and Maria Kolesnikova was arrested on Tuesday.
And after the arrest of Maksim Znak, only Svetlana Alexeyevich remains in the leadership of the Coordination Council.
“Everyone is already in prison or has been expelled from the country,” said Svetalana Alexievitch.
No hit
He writes in DN Kultur about the Belarusians’ struggle against President Alexander Lukashenka.
“But for every one they wear out from our ranks, a hundred new ones arrive. Because it is not the Coordination Council that has rebelled. It is the country that has risen ”.
The protests are massive against the president, who remains in office after the August electoral fraud.
The demand now is that Aleksandr Lukashenka, who has been in office since 1994, resign.
“I want to repeat what I have been saying all this time. We have not prepared for a coup. We did not want to cause any division in our country. We wanted to engage in a dialogue in society,” writes Svetlana Alexeyevich.
