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OMON officers and people dressed in black without identification marks started using water cannons, flash noise grenades against protesters in Minsk, hitting them with batons when detained, but the protesters did not disperse.
On October 11 in Minsk, riot police and anonymous individuals began arresting protesters who attended the opposition march, TUT.BY reports on Telegram.
The publication released a video showing unknown men dressed in black and balaclava hitting protesters with batons. “There have been no such violent clashes for two months,” reporters say.
Onliner showed a video filmed near the “Minsk – Hero City” stele, showing how the security forces detain the protesters and beat them with batons. Judging by the photos released by Radio Svaboda, there are victims in the wake as a result of the dispersal.
Water cannons and stun grenades are used against the protesters, but they are not dispersed, says Radio Svaboda.
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Mass protests over the falsified voting results in the presidential elections in Belarus have continued since August 9. According to official data, the current head of state, Alexander Lukashenko, won the elections. At the same time, alternative exit polls showed a sure victory for the opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.
The Belarusian security forces violently dispersed the protesters. They used stun grenades, rubber bullets, and water cannons. During the protests, hundreds of protesters were injured and injured and 13,000 people were arrested. According to official figures, four protesters died.
Lukashenka assumed the presidency on September 23. For the first time in the history of Belarus, it was neither announced nor broadcast on television.
Several states, including the US, Great Britain, Canada, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Denmark, the Czech Republic and Ukraine, did not recognize Lukashenko’s inauguration.
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