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Keep talking about Belarus!
Belarus has been a dictatorship for many, many years, but it was never this gruesome, this... real. In case you didn't know, Lukashenko has been in office since 1994, he changed the constitution to be able to do it. The elections have been widely known to be falsified for years, getting lukashenko 80% or 90% of votes each and every time, although his real support is estimated to be realistically around 3%, and it could be even lower now, since he still denies the very existence (existence, not seriousness!) of coronavirus.
On the 10th of august, another election took place. To no surprise, 3 of his main opponents have suddenly been arrested and disqualified from the election in the last weeks and, as you could expect, he won again with 80% of votes.
So people have gone to the streets. Lukashenko is apparently hiding in Turkey. It's hard to organize, to communicate or to even document what's happening due to all of the internet being completely down.
Rhe police is shooting people, using tear gas and actual grenades on the masses. A cop van drove into the crowd from the behind running multiple people over. There's a lot of blood, ambulances, and possible dead, (UPDATE: one confirmed dead) though it's really impossible to know, as there are little to no news sources available in Belarus, especially with the wifi being down.
The belarussian police, or militia, is an organization working not only obviously unethically, but illegally too - people are mass-arrested without an open cause, beaten, held in arrest for days, and killed. Just yesterday a man's entire arm was ripped off in some kind of explosion. (This is not confirmed, second-hand relation). Nothing quite of this scale happened since the 90s, or possibly ever in the modern history of Belarus. Belarussians are finally demanding change, and really, what can the police do against a whole nation?
I wish I could reffer everyone to some kind of petition, charity organization, anything, but the events are so current that it's hard for me to say how people from other countries could possibly help. All I can do is raise a little awareness of what's happening, so please, keep reading, keep yourselves updated and informed and don't forget belarus.
Friendly reminder that Belarus still has death sentence, so you totally can push Lukashenko into a cannon and yeet him off to Russia.
Also, keep an eye on the news - Lithuanians will be recreating the Baltic Way in support of Belarus and it's pissing Sasha off ;)
some twitter threads about Belarus that might help you understand the whole situation
@AlexKokcharov's thread about elections themselves. check this out if you want to know why people are protesting!
@IAM_FAKE_LOVE's thread with videos and pics. tw: brutality
@antilashden's thread about ways to help.
I swear to God if I see another "this is what America will look like", "this is a sequel to our elections", "yeah this is just like blm movement", "this is the same with Trump here", "we understand what you feel about Lukashenko, Trump is the same" I WILL FUCKING LOSE IT
SHUT UP ABOUT AMERICA FOR ONE FUCKING MINUTE
IT ISN'T ABOUT YOU, IT ISN'T ABOUT YOUR FUTURE ELECTIONS, IT'S NOTHING !!! NOTHING!!! LIKE BELARUS SITUATION
I'M SO SICK OF THIS SELF-CENTERED ATTITUDE
AMERICA ISN'T THE ONLY COUNTRY HERE IN THE WORLD FOR FUCKS SAKE
GO DONATE, SPREAD INFORMATION, SUPPORT BELARUS
DON'T MAKE IT ABOUT AMERICA BECAUSE IT ISN'T ABOUT IT!!!
No sympathy
well i thought it was only like that on twitter, but here we go again👍🏾 our only way is to do our best and spread information
also today i saw a couple english threads about Belarus rn, and it's really nice how some people are FINALLY trying to help without talking about their country. it brings me hope🥺
Ok there used to be only Belarus trending but now here we are. Of course most of the news are not about us but about US *sigh*
‼️FACEBOOK FUNDRAISER SURRORT FOR BELARUS‼️
there are english, polish and czech descriptions available, but machine translation will help you anyways.
all the raised money will go to victims of repressions and their families to suppprt them.
you'll need a gmail address to donate, i hope it isn't a problem.
you can donate from anywhere in the world!
educate yourself and spread the information!!
you can also subscribe to Facebook, Telegram and Instagram accounts of the campaign
«so as we now realize americans are just like that shitty friend that you can tell anything about your current life situation and they will interrupt you saying that they feel even worse and also their bathroom is leaking»
