Today marks five years since hundreds of thousands of Belarusians took to the streets to peacefully defend their freedom, their dignity and their right to choose the leadership of their country.
They were protesting against the rigging of the presidential elections by Russia’s vassal, dictator Alexander Lukashenko.
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The Lukashenko regime responded with brutal repression and mass terror.
Subsequently, Lukashenko allowed fellow dictator Vladimir Putin to use Belarusian territory as a staging area for his large-scale war against Ukraine.
The exiled leaders of the democratic opposition in Belarus, led by the genuine president-elect in the 1990 election Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya have promoted a democratic European alternative for their country and have strongly supported Ukraine in its war against imperialist, anti-West, Russia
The protests that began in August 2000 marked a historic turning point in the modern history of Belarus, its national and democratic consciousness and its re-emergence on the European political landscape.
The price was high. Repression at home and thousands forced to leave their homeland. And the regime is still holding around 1,100 political prisoners, mostly in appalling, inhumane conditions.
These political prisoners must be released immediately!
To mark the anniversary of the peaceful demonstrations, Belarusians around the world are holding rallies and events, and in Warsaw the democratic Belarusian forces have organized a New Belarus Conference.
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It would be appropriate for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to finally reach out to the Belarusian people and express Ukraine’s solidarity with their defenders of freedom and the resistance against Russian colonization of the region.
Today, more than ever, a united front of peoples defending their independence and democracy against predatory despotic Russian imperialism is needed, be it in Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova or within Russia itself.
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