Lithuania: huge human chain of solidarity with Belarusians

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To show their solidarity with the Belarusians who again demonstrated en masse on Sunday in Minsk and other cities of the country, 50,000 Lithuanians joined hands from Vilnius to the Belarusian border on the free way.

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With our correspondent in Vilnius, Marielle Vitureau

Seen from the sky, the road to freedom was only a long red and white chain. The clothes, the flags, the flowers. Everything was in the colors of Belarus. Margarita shook her hand with her daughter: “  The demonstrators in Minsk must know that we have gone through the same trials and that we have emerged victorious. "

Thirty-one years ago the Balts also organized their great human chain from Vilnius to Tallinn. Kasparas was there. Being there today on this path to freedom is a matter of security: “  Seeing the protesters in Belarus brutalized is hard to see. If Russia and Belarus came together, we would be totally surrounded by a terrorist state. "

At 7:00 p.m., the Lithuanians sang their hymn and applauded. For the Belarusian Vadzim Vileita in Lithuania for many years, the day is historic. "In  the eyes of others, we are no longer either pro-Russians or a Soviet dictatorship, and in the long term our relations will only improve,  " he said.

A hope to which many Lithuanians and Belarusians cling, so unstable is the situation in Minsk.

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