MINSK: As some three thousand demonstrators marched through the centre of the Belarusian capital Minsk their anger turned to the man who has dominated their lives for 23 years: strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko.
“Leave!” they began chanting. “Leave!”
The rally last week was part of the biggest wave of protests to rock isolated Belarus in years as crowds around the country took to the streets to issue a rare challenge to their authoritarian president.
While the scale of the demonstrations may still be modest – several thousand in Minsk, several hundred in provincial towns – the sudden outburst of public anger and its …read more
Source: The Manila Times
