{"id":61445,"date":"2020-09-06T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/100k-protesters-demand-belarus-leader-alexander-lukashenko-resign\/"},"modified":"2020-09-06T21:46:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T18:46:00","slug":"100k-protesters-demand-belarus-leader-alexander-lukashenko-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/100k-protesters-demand-belarus-leader-alexander-lukashenko-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"#100K protesters demand Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko resign"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#100K protesters demand Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko resign<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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September 6, 2020 |<\/span> 2:46pm <\/p>\n

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\n Belarusian opposition supporters with old Belarusian national flags gather toward the Independence Palace, the residential of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk<\/span>
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\n KYIV, Ukraine \u2014 Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched Sunday to the outskirts of the presidential residence in the capital of Belarus, calling for the country\u2019s authoritarian leader to resign as protests against President Alexander Lukashenko entered their fifth week.<\/p>\n

Protests also took place in major cities throughout Belarus, said Interior Ministry spokeswoman Olga Chemodanova. Crowd sizes for those protests were not immedia<\/a>tely reported, but Ales Bialiatski, head of the Viasna human rights organization, said the demonstration in Minsk attracted more than 100,000 people.<\/p>\n

The protests, unprecedented in Belarus for their size and duration, began after the Aug. 9 presidential vote that election officials said gave Lukashenko a sixth term in office with 80% support. Protesters say the results were rigged, and some have explained to Associated Press journalists exactly how the fraud took place in their districts.<\/p>\n

Lukashenko has ruled the country with an iron fist since 1994, regularly repressing dissent and press freedom.<\/p>\n

Police violently cracked down on demonstrators in the first days of the protests, arresting some 7,000 people and beating hundreds. Although they have scaled back, detentions continue; Viasna reported scores of people were arrested in Minsk and in the city of Grodno on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Police and army troops blocked off the center of Minsk on Sunday, but demonstrators marched to the outskirts of the Palace of Independence, the president\u2019s working residence 3 kilometers (2 miles) outside the city center. The palace grounds were blocked off by phalanxes of shield-bearing riot police and water cannon.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis sea of \u200b\u200bpeople cannot be stopped by military equipment, water cannons, propaganda and arrests. Most Belarusians want a peaceful change of power and we will not get tired of demanding this,\u201dsaid Maria Kolesnikova, a leader of the Coordination Council set up by the opposition to try to arrange a dialogue with the 66-year-old Lukashenko about a transition of power.<\/p>\n

She spoke with The Associated Press by telephone.<\/p>\n

Lukashenko has rejected any discussion with the council and some of its top members have been jailed. One of them, Olga Kovalova, was expelled from the country over the weekend, driven to Poland by police.<\/p>\n

Despite the stalemate between Lukashenko and the opposition, protesters say they are determined not to tire. Some of the placards they carried Sunday showed a lively sense of humor.<\/p>\n

\u201cLukashenka, start building a house near Yanukovych,\u201d read one, referring to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych who fled to Russia in 2014 after months of anti-government protests.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe collective farm went bankrupt,\u201d said another, evoking Lukashenko\u2019s former position as a collective farm director and his retention of largely state-controlled Soviet-style economy for Belarus, an Eastern European nation of 9.5 million.<\/p>\n

Authorities also have revoked the accreditation of many Belarusian journalists and deported some foreign journalists, including two Moscow-based Associated Press journalists. AP\u2019s Belarusian journalists were among those told their press credentials had been revoked.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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