Thousands protest Belarus' 'rigged' election

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Thousands of protesters rallied in Belarus’ capital and other cities for a fourth night straight, decrying an election they say was rigged to extend the 26-year rule of President Lukashenko.

“Even those who were loyal saw the real face of this government during the past three days,” said 63-year-old Galina Vitushko, who stood outside a jail in Minsk, trying to find her son, a 43-year old doctor. She said that she desperately needs to give him insulin since he has diabetes.

This year, the economic damage caused by the coronavirus and the president’s swaggering response to the pandemic, which he airily dismissed as “psychosis,” has fueled broad anger, helping swell the opposition ranks — but that has only elicited a more forceful crackdown from the Belarusian leader. Protesters have not heeded her call, and Maria Kolesnikova, a top figure in Tsikhanouskaya's campaign, urged the government Wednesday to “stop waging a war against its own people and begin a dialogue.”

“A deliberate hunt for journalists with independent Belarusian and foreign media has begun,” said Goretsky.

 

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I stand with the people of Belarus who yearn for truth and a better government FOR the people. Strength and prayers! 💖🌺

UN should get involved and demand answers!!

This is what citizens who actually care about democracy and the future of their country do when elections are rigged and stolen. The fact that Americans are too lazy and complacent to have done the same in the last 3.5 years is a profound and crippling embarrassment.

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Did they use mail in ballots like the Democrats want too ?

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