Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, whose homeland is ruled by a strongman reliant on Russia to maintain power, visited Canada this week to ask for more help, including recognition of passports her organization is fashioning for compatriots like herself who live in exile.
Monday’s sanctions target current and former senior government officials, including members of Belarusian security forces, public prosecutors, members of the judiciary system and administrators of penal and so-called education colonies “who have been involved in suppressing the right of Belarusians to protest peacefully,” a press release from the Department of Global Affairs said.
“We are going to issue our own passports and we will seek recognition,” she said. “It’s not just about Belarusian people; it will be a very decisive answer to dictators that they don’t own people. We are not their property.”She said Canada’s regular announcements of further sanctions on Belarus, often taken in concert with other allies, are a “constant reminder to the dictatorship that their crimes are not forgotten.
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