{"id":52293,"date":"2020-08-23T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/over-100000-protesters-gather-to-pressure-belarus-president-to-resign\/"},"modified":"2020-08-23T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T15:50:00","slug":"over-100000-protesters-gather-to-pressure-belarus-president-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/over-100000-protesters-gather-to-pressure-belarus-president-to-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"#Over 100,000 protesters gather to pressure Belarus president to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Over 100,000 protesters gather to pressure Belarus president to resign<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 23, 2020 |<\/span> 11:50am <\/p>\n

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\n Thousands of people gather for a protest at the Independence square in Minsk, Belarus <\/p>\n

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\n Women hold posters picturing President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko during a protest in Minsk, Belarus <\/p>\n

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\n MINSK, Belarus \u2014 More than 100,000 protesters demanding the resignation of Belarus\u2019 authoritarian president rallied Sunday in a vast square in the capital, keeping up the massive outburst of dissent that has shaken the country since a disputed presidential election two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s demonstration overflowed Minsk\u2019s sprawling 7-hectare (17-acre) Independence Square. There were no official figures on crowd size, but it app<\/a>eared to be 150,000 people or more.<\/p>\n

Dozens of police prisoner transport vehicles were parked on the fringes, but police made no immedia<\/a>te efforts to break up the gathering. Earlier this month, some 7,000 people were arrested, many of them beaten with clubs or wounded by rubber bullets, in the protests after the Aug. 9 election that officials say handed President Alexander Lukashenko a sixth term in office.<\/p>\n

Protesters say the official election results, in which Lukashenko reportedly received 80% of the vote, are fraudulent.<\/p>\n

The size and duration of the protests are unprecedented for Belarus, a former Soviet republic of 9.5 million people that Lukashenko has ruled with an iron fist for 26 years.<\/p>\n

The 65-year-old leader appears to be flailing about for a strategy to counter them. He has repeatedly blamed Western interference, claimed the protests were backed by the United States and accuses NATO of building up troop concentrations in Poland and Lithuania on Belarus\u2019 western border, which the alliance denies. He also claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin was willing to offer security assistance to his government to quell the protests if he asked for it.<\/p>\n

Lukashenko has consistently repressed any opposition during his time in office and weariness with his hardline rule, as well as dismay over the country\u2019s deteriorating economy and Lukashenko\u2019s cavalier dismissal of the coronavirus pandemic, appear to have galvanized opponents.<\/p>\n

A similarly enormous crowd turned out for a protest a week ago and daily demonstrations have taken place since the vote. Several of the country\u2019s key factories have been hit with protest strikes by workers fed up with government polices. Those strikes not only threaten the already-ailing economy, but show that opposition to Lukashenko extends beyond educated white-collar circles and into his traditional blue-collar base.<\/p>\n

\u201cBelarus has changed. Lukashenko has been able to unify everybody, from workers to intelligentsia, in the demand for change,\u201d said protester Slava Chirkov, who attended Sunday\u2019s demonstration with his wife and son.<\/p>\n

They held a sign declaring \u201cLukashenko, your milk has gone sour,\u201d referencing Lukashenko\u2019s former job as the director of a Soviet-era collective farm.<\/p>\n

Lukashenko\u2019s main election challenger, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, fled to Lithuania the day after the election. Several other possible challengers fled the country even before the election.<\/p>\n

An opposition Coordination Council was created last week to develop a strategy for a transition of power, but authorities in Belarus have opened a criminal probe into its formation.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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