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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is confident that the new government will not be a lustration, but a massacre in the country.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenuo believes that if alternative forces come to power, “they will start cutting people off.” Said this in a meeting with journalists in Baranovichi, the video was posted on the Telegram channel “Pool of the First”.
“I only strive for one thing: I want to protect what I have created for a quarter of a century with my own hands. We raised this country from the ruins, from the ashes. Thousands, millions of people are behind me, and I know it: When “these” come to power, they will cut everything into pieces and start cutting these people and their children. That’s what worries me the most, “he said.
The Belarusian president noted that he is not holding on to power.
“I don’t want my country, which I carved on the ruins of the empire, to be cut to pieces, and I don’t want to cut up the honest and decent people who worked on this. This will not be a lustration, it will be a massacre, and what happened in Ukraine : they will be flowers, “he added.
Mass protests have been going on in Belarus since August 9. The protesters believe that the results of the presidential elections, which were held from August 4-9, were falsified. According to official data, Lukashenka won with 80.1% of the voters. Opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya came in second with 10.1% of the vote. The rest of the candidates earned less than 2%. At the same time, alternative exit polls showed the opposite picture: Tikhanovskaya’s confident victory.
The Belarusian security forces violently dispersed the demonstrations, in particular with the use of stun grenades, rubber bullets and water cannons. During the protests, more than 7,000 protesters were arrested (many of them have already been released), hundreds were injured and wounded. According to official figures, four protesters died.
Mass protests took place in Minsk and other cities in Belarus on August 30. In the capital, protesters approached the Independence Palace to congratulate Lukashenka on his 66th birthday. The protesters brought “gifts” to the president, including a black coffin with crowns and a cardboard cockroach. In the morning, the security forces brought military equipment to the capital.
173 people were arrested in protests in Belarus on August 30. According to human rights activists, the detainees included minors and a Russian citizen.
The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, on behalf of the European Union, said on August 11 that the elections in Belarus “were neither free nor fair”, and that the authorities used “a disproportionate and unacceptable violence “against protesters.
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