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Mikalai Statkevich: Protests – Only Thing That Will Stop This Regime

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Mikalai Statkevich: Protests – Only Thing That Will Stop This Regime
Mikalai Statkevich

Yarmoshyna and the company understand this.

The authorities are afraid that people will take to the streets to stop their lawlessness. One of the opposition leaders and the former political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich said that in the interview to charter97.org.

– The head of the CEC Lidziya Yarmoshyna called the possible protests of the opposition the biggest threat to the “parliamentary elections” in Belarus.

– I think that it has long become clear to any common intelligent person in our country that protests are the only thing that can stop the regime. There are more peaceful ways to struggle, but we are not talking about them now.

Sure, Yarmoshyna said something that has found lodgment in her subconscious. This is the only thing that fears her, the regime and all that crew. They are afraid that people will take to the streets to stop their lawlessness.

– Why is the protest action of September 12 so important to Belarusians?

– If we don’t protest against this clique, against another attempt to rig the “elections” in order to keep the power, the nation will continue to lose self-respect. The most active, intelligent and worthy ones will leave this country. Who will stay here? The nation, which no one fights for, disappears. We must struggle - we have no other way.

I am speaking of peaceful struggle, we have always held only peaceful actions. Only actions of the authorities forced us to give a rebuff.

We should take to the Square if we respect ourselves. How will we look into the eyes of children and grandchildren in ten years? We should protest in order to be able to answer the question without shame: “Why have you been tolerating that for so many years?” What will those people who sit at homes answer? We don’t know what will be the relationships in the families in 20 years. Because our grandchildren may say very unpleasant and offensive words to us.

I am sure, people will take to the streets, I am sure, there are many worthy people in Belarus who can no longer endure this spectacle.

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