Belarusian opposition denounces Lukashenko and Sunday’s election

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya refuses to mention what is happening this week in Belarus election.

“It’s Sham,” the opposition leader says. “This is a military operation; a military operation to maintain power.”

For thirty years, the country has been led by alexander Lukashenko, now because of power now it is Vladimir Putin who uses his neighbor in all communication in Ukraine.

This Sunday, Belaunians will see Lukasheko’s name on the ballot for the second time, with four other names easily chosen.

No independent representatives are allowed.

Strict controls have another place because when it’s time for A Belandu to vote for the President, the country was played by big demonstrations.

In 2020, Alexander Lukashenko allowed Svetlana Tikhanovskaya to compete with him, thinking that a novice – and a woman – would not change.

It was very wrong.

Tikhanovskaya, who decided to stand up for her husband after Lukasnanko put him in prison, who claimed victory.

When Lukashenko received 80% of the vote, the majority took the roads that are the most dangerous to Lukashemko’s regime. Demonstrations are often crushed by an overpowered police force and a violent mob.

The European Union refused to recognize the leiritives of Lukashenko as President.

Today, all the corrupt people in prison are in prison or have fled abroad, like Tikhanovskaya. The old critics still in Berus are afraid to keep quiet.

That is why the opposition leader is not encouraging them to take to the streets on Sunday.

“We call on the Belausans to reject these arguments and to the group to avoid the consequences,” he told the BBC. “But I will say to Mr. Belausaya, you must be safe until the exact time possible.

“Because people live in fear all the time, and the government is now waking up.”

You feel the fear immediately when you talk to the Belaunians.

Many do not want to speak in public at all. Some ask you to change their names, so choose their words carefully.

Some doubt that within Belarus chats only record the messages that they emit at the same time.

They all say to open up the political system in this country.

Bysol, a non-profit organization that helps to eliminate those at risk, reports about 30 or 40 program evaluations per month.

As of 2020, the group has grown to over 1,500 people.

It also helps that former political prisoners are trying to rebuild their lives after being released from prison.

For Yona Zhuravleva, vet, that has been difficult.

Before the start of 2020 he committed himself to his work and will not work in politics. But that summer he joined a giant team, hoping for a change.

He was later sentenced to three years in prison for “serious violations of the state”.

“We will be punished for everything,” he recalls of his time in prison.

They estimate that about 1 in 10 of the women were there because of the protest. Like them, Yana was added to the group that “likes to do things with beauty and destruction”.

“You can’t go to the theater, only your letters are from relatives and you get the right to come. If you complain that you always hear what you have been coming,” he tells me from Poland, that he was sued after his release.

Yana admits that it took a “Titanic” power to not get over the stress.

“He’s in jail,” I cried. But when I was going out, I suddenly wanted to shake all the time, without knowing why. “

Several people I met mentioned seeking psychological help, after being interrogated, threatened or arrested.

They describe a security operation that confuses everyone with links to the opposition, so names from all are being arrested.

The pressure was not lost.

A Belarusian woman, a human rights activist, tells me that she stopped going to court because the elders saw her.

If he can prove any connection to the anti-human rights movement in Viena, he can be accused of being a “stupid”.

“I can do some things to support me, but I have to be careful,” he told me anonymously.

“You have more strength to fight when you see these injustices.”

Vaisna currently recruits 1,266 prisoners in Belarus. The Wise Ones were soon given miracles, but they were soon replaced.

For those fleeing the pressure, subject to Belarus, there is an increased risk of knowing that they may not return for a long time.

This is why Natalia, not her real name, decided to stay in Belaus despite being arrested twice for participating in protests.

He said: “You are very vulnerable when you are on the ‘oppressed’ list.

“You can’t work because you’re on a police base and the authorities always have an eye on you…”

For Natalia that means being tied, first and foremost walking her dog without a lead.

“He said he was mean and he cursed his hands,” he remembers when he was ten years old with 14 people in the same room, Always Light.

For a week, he lay down.

“It shook my sense of security, I started to worry a lot,” Natalia told me.

He is out now and plans to return soon, to his cats. But his neighbors say that the police just went to his house, and looked for all the things that could happen in the vote on Sunday.

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya believes that the ongoing protests show that Lukashenko and his supporters are afraid.

“The pain of 2020 is still alive and they must remove all possibilities,” the opposition leader argues.

“He knew that Mr. Belari had not accepted or forgiven him, and he still wanted to change.”

But he admits there is little sign of it in the short term.

For a time when Russia was in danger in Russia in Russia enough about Ukraine, Mr. Belalaya believed that he was winning by defeating the Western disease, and Lukasanko followed him.

Some went to the front line, to choose power after their peace process failed.

But Ukraine’s military is now struggling to keep up with President Donald Trump’s push for peace talks.

“Democratic Falsentol Can’t make it,” Tikanovskaya argues, describing Lukashenko as a threat to the world.

He allowed Russia to set up divisions in Ukraine from Belarus and send the tanks through its territory.

They are also allowed for the transition of migrants at the border of Poland to the EU.

“He allows to put nuclear weapons and his army in Belarus, and it is a very short way to Poland and Lithuania,” Tikhonovskaya says.

“And he is two, and he supports other users brutally. He is part of this evil.”

There is little doubt that the restoration of the Week of Alexander Lukashenko will go according to its purpose.

“Those people are gone,” he explains of the political prisons, which he once had in prison.

“They violated the ability to protest.”

Now he is trying to return to his work as a vet, but in Poland, with a three-year hard recovery.

Those I spoke to are now retiring, or eventually dying, as the greatest hope for democracy.

At the moment, many are exchanging: There has been an interest in determining the culture of Belashi and the language, the opposition. There are a lot of things that happen in these situations.

“No—someone has said it publicly, but we see that there is no hope. There is despair,” Natalia admits.

But there is no obvious sadness, either.

Svetlana Svetlanavskaya’s life has changed a lot since a long time.

Cut off from her country, her husband is also a political prisoner – he is held in full custody for almost two years.

The opposition leader advocates that he “really believes” in change.

“2020 completely changed the mindset in Belarus. I don’t know how long it will last, but this change will never end.”