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BNC Council: Free Belarus From Occupation!

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BNC Council: Free Belarus From Occupation!
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The Belarusian National Congress will continue the campaign "Power to the people!"

During the meeting of the Council of the Belarusian National Congress the following statement was adopted:

Statement of the BNC Council

On the results of another stage of the campaign "Power to the people!" and the goals for the next one.

The Council considers another stage of the campaign "Power to the people!", which was held primarily with social demands, successful. We started it on February 17 in the center of the capital. And, in spite of the repressions, we also duly completed it on May 1 in the center of Minsk. Between these dates there were mass protests in the central squares of all the important cities of the country, arrests, fines, dispersals, the "patriots case," hysteria and concessions of the frightened authorities. But the main result of two and a half months of protests is the awakening of the previously passive layers of the population to public civil activity.

Most members of the Council have been persecuted. Among us there are those who have spent almost half of this stage of the protests under administrative arrests. Our representative in Minsk, Siarhei Kuntsevich, was tortured in the KGB prison with an electric current and is still being held in custody. However, we believe that there is no alternative to peaceful protest and coercing the authorities to dialogue with the people. Therefore, the campaign "Power to the people!" will continue until all its goals are achieved.

By its behavior, the regime showed that Belarus is under internal occupation. The most dangerous thing is that internal occupation can become external at any moment. As the trumped-up "patriots case" has proved, the puppet regime will never arm the people to oppose external aggression. It is afraid of the people more than of the loss of even formal signs of independence. Therefore, the autumn military exercises on our land could become the beginning of an unhindered external occupation of Belarus.

The Council decided that during the next stage of the campaign "Power to the people!" we will, in addition to socio-economic demands, demand the abolition of the autumn exercises and the release of the detainees in the "patriots case." We do not want to risk the independence of our country, we do not want to be dragged into other people's conflicts. We do not want any foreign troops on our land. We demand the implementation of Article 18 of the Constitution, which aims to make our state neutral. We want to free Belarus from the internal occupation by an illegal regime and prevent its external occupation.

The next action of the campaign "Power to the people!" will begin on the Day of liberation of our capital on July 3 at 14.00 in the Kastrychnitskaya Square in Minsk.

Power to the people!

Long live Belarus!

Minsk, May 26, 2017

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