Word: kozulin
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...Kozulin: Lukashenko's lost his nerve. Tomorrow, Saturday, March 25, is a major national holiday, albeit unrecognized officially - the anniversary of the Belarus People's Republic, our independent state, proclaimed back in 1918 and destroyed several months later. Lots of people always gather to mark this day. Now, the anniversary coincided with mass election fraud protests. The opposition has called upon the people to come to the square en masse to protest. The authorities were scared that this "pathetic tent camp" worked as a toehold for the dozens of thousands who would show up tomorrow - and turn Minsk into...
...Kozulin: As the night was falling, most people left the square. Just some 300 kids were staying there to keep vigil overnight. Most of them students. When the police surrounded them, the kids just sat on the ground in a circle, holding hands. They did not resist. First, the cops removed all the media from the vicinity of the square, then they started carrying the protesters to prison wagons bodily. My two nephews were among those arrested in the square. They are still in jail...
...Kozulin: My mom, who survived the Nazi occupation, says that Lukashism is worse...
...Kozulin: What happened last night is just a part of a general crackdown. They have been picking up people individually - not just opposition activists, but many of those who as much as dared bring food to the tent camp. Same as the Nazis arrested those trying to bring some food to concentration camps inmates. In just three days after the election, they have arrested close to 1,000 people, including the kids in the square. They had also arrested some 500 activists within the week before the election. They destroy this country's future when they stifle the people...
...Kozulin: Now they will cordon the square off and try to keep the people out. But the people will be coming tomorrow anyway. We have always called for peaceful protests, but now Lukashenko provokes violence. He will bear the entire responsibility, should it happen. The authorities should have learned to listen to their people. But they are provoking violence instead. This only proves once again that they are illegitimate, and that this "election" was a fraudulent farce...