More Minsk: This is how Lukashenka celebrates his fake "victory": they shoot at the people with rubb

[soothsayer]

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Livestream central Minsk (ended but available I think)

https://t.co/sMkn1Nk3g0?amp=1

“The most powerful performance!” (Minsk version of Tiananmen Square guy... sort of)

Franak Viačorka
@franakviacorka
The dramatic video of the crackdown in Minsk. Happening now.

Hanna Liubakova
@HannaLiubakova
#Belarus The police went violent in #Minsk

Anders Åslund
@anders_aslund
Substantial shooting with rubber bullets and tear gas in Minsk.

This is how Lukashenka celebrates his fake “victory”: they shoot at the people with rubber bullets and throw sound and light grenades! Russia will have the same if Putin remains in power.

[MagickMuffin]

1. The World Powers has gone absolutely MAD

These people think that can just treat their citizens like they are worthless.

Let's just hope it doesn't happen here in November.

[soothsayer]

2. Isn't it bizarre that we now understand rubber bullets and concussive grenades?

Unreal

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Made Me Look Up...

...flash grenades.
I have background in the reaction chemistry & thermodynamics of explosive compounds.
I heard about the "flashbangs" and wondered how they DIDN'T kill someone near it. Every compound like that I ever looked at would create a lethal pressure wave 99%+ of the time.
Now, I know, but I would have been fine not learning about it. All they had to do was not use them on citizens, over property! Then, I would never have bothered to research it.

[Takket]

4. what is the context of this election?

from what i've gathered the incumbent is a drumpf type that has used voter suppression to steal the election? i saw something earlier about people climbing out of windows with bags of ballots!!!!!!!!!

[soothsayer]

5. Yes you did

They’ve been protesting against him with gigantic crowds since mid June

This was July 30

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Wow! Approximately 30,000 protesters came out in Minsk. Elections are coming up next month and people are fed up with Lukashenko

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Franak Viačorka
@franakviacorka
First of all, this is a great cinematic story—a woman, an ordinary English teacher, challenging brutal strongman Lukashenka. Candidate by accident, she appeals to ordinary people. She says I don't want to be president. I just want free elections and my husband back from prison.

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Hanna Liubakova
@HannaLiubakova
#Belarus. Police are detaining independent observers at election commissions across the country, human rights centre @viasna96 reports. All the rules and laws, established and accepted by the authorities in previous elections, have been ignored this time. No discretion is left

[Takket]

6. thanks for the insight.......

we are so dangerously close to this..............

a common problem is corrupt regimes is the law only matters in so far as the willingness of the government to enforce it.

[soothsayer]

7. A cautionary tale for sure