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"Revolutionary Situation Used To Be In Country And It Remains"

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"Revolutionary Situation Used To Be In Country And It Remains"
YAUHEN AFNAHEL

If the authorities had drawn conclusions after the protests, we would have sat down at a round table with the opposition.

Yauhen Afnahel, a coordinator of the European Belarus civil campaign, visited the Belsat television channel studio before his detention.

The activist became a guest of the program "The Talk Of The Day", which will be aired today.

Yauhen Afnahel said in the interview:

"Before the first March, the politicians, I will not mention their names now, some journalists as well, were, unfortunately, saying:" There will be a hundred of people, there is no protest wave, there is no revolutionary situation. What protests are you talking about? No one will take to the streets." It was said even in the morning of February 17, and then thousands of people came out. Maybe these politicians do not feel popular sentiments? The did not feel then and do not feel now. So what kind of politicians are they then? I do not think that it was a surprise for the society, because there were protest moods. And the revolutionary situation used to be in the country, and it still remains."

According to the activist, if the authorities had drawn conclusions after the protests, we would have sat down at a round table with the opposition, and Lukashenka would have started negotiations with Statkevich:

"These are the conclusions that can save the country, because the crisis deepens, the situation is very complicated. And there could be social riots instead of rallies carried out by the opposition. And if there are social riots, anything may happen: there may be Russian tanks and, perhaps, Russian bayonets will decapitate Lukashenka. And the authorities must sit down at a round table with the opposition and decide how to save the country, if they do not want it to happen."

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