Belarus: for Tikhanovskaya, Lukashenko has no other choice but to leave power
Screenshot of one of the videos of Belarusian opponent Svetlana Tikhanovskaya posted on social media.
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Before the new demonstration scheduled for Sunday, September 6 and which should still bring together tens of thousands of people in the capital Minsk, the Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, a refugee in Lithuania, answered for the first time questions from Internet users about her Youtube channel.
She believes that the demonstrators will no longer want to put up with the power of Alexander Lukashenko.
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This is another weekend under pressure for Alexander Lukashenko.
Ever more isolated, the Belarusian president must now deal with the
sling of the digital sector
.
And Sunday, September 6, a new demonstration against his re-election on August 9 is scheduled in the capital Minsk.
This will be the fourth Sunday in a row where his opponents will parade.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya
, his political rival, will not be.
She took refuge in Lithuania.
But it was on YouTube that she spoke before the September 6 rally.
"
The point of no return has been crossed
"
“
People who have made their choice, who want change, who no longer have faith in this power, can no longer coexist with this power.
This is why these people continue to take to the streets.
They demonstrate peacefully, but decisions need to be taken as quickly as possible.
Because the people who support us will no longer change their mind,
”said the one who claims victory in the last presidential election to Internet users.
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“
What happened on
August
9th and what happened afterwards transformed consciousness forever. The demonstrators will not forgive and will not forget what happened,
”added Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who referred to the
demonstrations violently repressed
.
“
Power must understand that Belarusians have changed.
They woke up and it is impossible to make them go back.
We will not be able to live with this power.
Our people understood that the point of no return had been crossed,
”she insisted.
Tikhanovskaya appeals to the UN
On Saturday September 5, another opposition figure left Belarus: Olga Kovalkova, head of the Opposition Coordination Council, found refuge in Warsaw, Poland, from where she told the press that she had been threatened and then transported to the border by Belarusian security services, on the night from Friday to Saturday.
“
Everything that has happened in the past few days and weeks, I consider torture.
I have been threatened many times with long detention,
”she said.
As protests were already taking place across the country on Saturday, security forces were seen boarding student vans.
In a speech given on Friday, September 4, Svetlana Tikhanovskaïa asked the UN "
to condemn the use of excessive force by the Belarusian security services against the demonstrators
".
(With AFP)
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