In an unprecedented act, workers at a factory shouted down Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, who has long been referred to as the father of the nation.
Protesters across the country have made it clear they want Alexander Lukashenko out.
The main opposition leader, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, said she is ready to lead a transition and is calling on the security forces to switch sides.
EU leaders will hold an emergency meeting on the issue on Wednesday.
Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen reports from Minsk.
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#Belerus #BelarusProtests #Lukashenko
*Another Maidan Style Funded Foreign Coup*
Good.
real moral justice demands deporting 10% of illegals and that every single city employee that defends illegals also should cut a portion of their own pensions=lower living cost/inflation,up wage value
Your parents Failed you
Shut up, idiot.
cali prop 47 all shoplifters go free if they loot below 800 dollars
lawyers called politicians are really out of touch from reality because they are spoiled rotten by tax payer funded everything,they always create new taxes that never affect city employees(themselves)
The laws are made for & by the rich!
Lukashenko must step down! NOW! Poland is with you Belarus against Lukashenko and Putin!
@עאתיקה באנני Belarus is our neighbor, a country ruined by tyrant Lukashenko. I’m enthusiastic to see Belarusian brothers demand for change
@Your Polish-Vietnamese guy
You know me too want this dictator to be ousted. The whole west wants so except for Russia and its puppets. But you know this same west doesn’t want democracy in the middle East and other regions? Every body is bigot and hypocrite. In the other parts of World the West wants dictators as their puppet because once these countries are free they will be no more their puppet.
@עאתיקה באנני Well, this is what I have been afraid of. In 1990s, the West threw support for Boris Yeltsin, and turned out it was a complete failure. But Western leaders did not care and now a hostile Russia was the product from Yeltsin’s era.
Belarus is not against Russia, only against Lukashenko, don’t make it a geopolitical thing, that’s why Poland is interfering and meddling, stop
@not today of course it’s geopolitical issue. Everybody knows how Russia is run nowadays. As soon as it gets rid of this dictator Lukashenko the whole political system will change there and it will get closer to European Union. And only because its people are also Russians doesn’t necessarily mean it should be a puppet to Russia.
If you don’t have free, Fair and Open elections you are not Free… you are a Slave.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, you are next! Maybe Putin should prepare to build more apartment for Lukashenko and Erdogan.
Putin should be near the top of the list too.
InşaAllah!
Cambodian here, my mom is Ukrainian-Russian, I share my solidarity to Belarusians. Belarusians are the nicest people I have met, having worked there with them in Lithuania where I live. Zelensky, Lukashenko and Putin must go!
Besides your mother isn’t even welcomed in Lithuania, as ethnic Russian speakers are invading population.
Love and support for Belarus. Love 💕 from New Zealand 🇳🇿
I like Belarus….nice country and wonderful people….last year I backpacked there and was blown away by how hospitable the people are. When you topple someone there will be struggles and violence and who will replace the power vacuum and how effective or good will they be? that is unknown.
傻B回去舔你习大大的屌，小垃圾
你这个死垃圾狗养的是印度人还是港毒台独还是脑子有问题的大陆人还就是个cnmd狗
@WY M 我是你主人，傻B
🇨🇱 Solidarity to Belarus
⚪🔴⚪👍🏻🇨🇱
Thumb up Belarus. From Taiwan, respect these brave Belarusian people.
Kyrylo Tyschenko Respect brother. From America.
@Yag Shemash are you Belarusian to talk from their name? Have you Belarusian passport?
@Yag Shemash Shut up commie
@Yag Shemash nice bit of copy and paste, im assuming your a troll lol. As ive twigged on to your name.
In Kasakstan we say horse is like man
When horse hungry, we say it like maaan is hungry
When horse is tired
Its like when maaaaan is tired
😉
@Kyrylo Tyschenko he is trolling us all. He has named himself after a saying by Borat, a character made by Sasha Baran Khan, who is a reporter form Kasakstan .
Juast watch a few Borat videos if you haven’t seen 👌
Keep it up young people, don’t give up. Send a message to tyrants all over the world.
Stand strong Belarus, love from a Nepalese Canadian. In Nepal we are also fighting a similar corrupt communist government that is running Nepal with help from Xi Jinping.
Qatar And UAE families must also be deposed
nobody wears mask here
👍👍👍🌹
час пераменаў 🤘
Да, пора перемен! Время изменений! Жыве Беларусь!
Surprisingly, Russian media for some reason has reported more positive about the protest in Belarus. Totally differed from 2014 coverage of Ukrainian protest!
well, it would be really difficult to brand Belarussians as “fascist” as it was with Ukrainians.
@Morpheus_X For just one reason: Ukrainians collaborated with both Nazis and Soviets. Belarusians on the other side sacrificed soldiers to protect Polish and Belarusian civilians. Russian propaganda often use this technique to mock Ukraine today, but they found it difficult to do the same to Belarusians since Belarus had no history of supporting Nazis.
@Your Polish-Vietnamese guy thats exactly what I meant.
@Your Polish-Vietnamese guy not true Nguyen-ski. Russia hates Lukashenko since 3 years ago.
@Morpheus_X western ukranians consider Stepan Bandera their true father, their grandfathers killed poles and Russians, I don’t know how Russians and Ukranian nationalists ended up living in the same country, it’s just like Bosnia Herzegovina and a time bomb
Lukoshenko must go leave
This will be easier than Hong Kong. So they may as well go home.
May I ask what do you think about Hong Kong’s future please?
@History Materials Like the territory of any sovereign state, the future of Hong Kong will be determined by the government of the sovereign state. China is, I’m sure, capable of determining the future of Hong Kong, as well as, its other provinces.
@Zechariah13 Who can offer assistance to Hong Kong people please?
@History Materials Beijing, who else?
Any governments that failed to improve people’s lives for twenty-six years ought to be overthrown.
That includes your totalitarian country. Your government surgeons ripping out heart transplants of uyghurs, you’re next
@Yag Shemash your comment is a copy and paste unoriginal piece of propaganda. As i have seen this exact comment around 15 times I will assume you are paid to comment or that you are crazy
Yes, clearly Lukashenko should be ousted from power. 26 years in power is not only ludicrous in the 21th century, it is absurd !!
All of the smart talent of this country is being wasted under a puppet of Putin’s Kremlin. Belarusians deserve better !
Neither Washington Nor Moscow & Beijing!
The translations are not right. lol
Probably like Ukraine, Belarus is poorer now than when the USSR was dissolved twenty-eight years ago. All those years the government must have been busily serving the ruling elites at the expense of the people. People have had enough miseries, they are rising up to take matters into their own hands.
What’s wrong with you ?
You have zero clue about anything, and mostly the opposite is true regarding your rant.
These people need to take their country back from this thug.
May the people of Belarus attain the freedom they deserve. The world stands with you.
Freedom for people!!!
@Just R You’re an idiot.
Ariel Trajtenberg The only idiot here is your self. The country is already free. Is safe and work conditions is better than most ex soviet countries. The country had order and stability. You can feel free to criticize the president but you are not allowed to form protest like these.
Just R Jail? More like firing squad
@Just R Neither Washington Nor Moscow & Beijing!
It looks good. Looks like no war is happening. Well done all.
So many Western-sponsored propaganda to promote Belarusian fascism here. Russia must intervene to stop this movement.
Don’t try to fool us, American spies. We know what are you doing in Hong Kong and Belarus.
美国间谍，不要试图愚弄我们。 我们知道您在香港和白俄罗斯正在做什么。
Не пытайтесь обмануть нас, американские шпионы. Мы знаем, что вы делаете в Гонконге и Беларуси.
Uhodi Lukašenko! Odlazi Vučiću!
Russia would probably invade if it doesn’t go their way
Well done. 👍🇬🇧
As a arab im ashamed, we just full of ego while our leaders rape our riches and keep us ignorant . These are the real patriots💙
Almost the whole world supports the people of Belarus 🇧🇾 .
I hope this man is ousted and you get a fair and democratic election.
@Watching the Hawks im also against interference especially from the US who seem to have a knack of interference and making situations even worse. The last thing Belarus needs is some sort of Civil war.
It seems like the citizens have had enough of quite blatant election rigging. I hope they get a fair amd independently verified re-election.
And i also hope western counties like my own, but especially the US dont impose sanctions on Belarus as they hurt the normal people that live there the most.
@Phil You should listen to Russia.
Yag Shemash Neither Washington Nor Moscow & Beijing!
@leo xian I will listen to anyone and everyone and then fact check and try and work out the truth.
It saddens me that I can’t just watch news and trust that its unbiased and factual.
Russia Today, Al Jazerra, CNN .
They are probably the best 3 thatcI know of.
@Phil every press is propoganda, dont rely on press entirely, use your own brain to sort it out. dont jump into what any press tell you without thinking it twice.
Solidarity from the Philippines 🇵🇭 Free your country from tyranny🇧🇾
Long live freedom 🇧🇾
Tayo na next!! Oust the turtle!!
Where is the European Union now? Lukashenko even called him self a dictator.
not today only 33% of the voting age population in the U.K. voted in favour of Brexit. Not the majority. Not only, Brexit was based on lies, manipulation and criminal activities. What the Brexcons called ‘project fear’ is now becoming project reality. We have an enormous lorry park being built in Kent, we have a border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. We haven’t got a ‘oven ready deal’, we have no deal to be precise. Nothing of what the Brexcons sold Brexit on is happening. The opposite is true. We have Farage and other Brexit supporters complaining that the Brexit they are getting is not the Brexit they voted for. Yet, when they were told that they did not know what they were voting for, they insisted they did. Brexit was an example of idiocracy not democracy. Manipulation of the masses not free and informed decision
@Giuseppe Tomaselli oh so you saying democracy is not always about the wisest option but about the most voted option
not today The EU is a great example of democracy. First of all, it has proportional representation, therefore, every vote counts. Also, every one, in every decisional position is voted for and approved by the all Parliament. On the contrary, the U.K. has a first pass the post system. Therefore, unless you voted for the major party, your vote doesn’t count. Not only, the prime minister alone has the decision of whom to appoint to the various ministerial position. Even politicians who have lost their mandate. The all government is run by Cummings, an individual who nobody voted for. That is dictatorship, not the EU system. You should get your facts right before commenting.
@Giuseppe Tomaselli the great US democracy is actually interfering in my own country and blocking democracy to succeed, how can a country be a democracy inside when it goes around the world destroying other countries and killing people? Don’t make me start with the UK hegemony. Fo
not today That is my point. I don’t know which is your country, therefore, I cannot talk specifically about your case but, democracy must be based on knowledge and not on misinformation, especially when a foreign power is involved. In that case of Brexit and both the U.K. and USA general elections, we know that Russia was pivotal in the results. It gave financial support, via Bannon and Banks, and technical support via Facebook and Twitter.
Stay strong Lukashenko.
Keep it going Belarus
The world supports you!
Time for change
Funny, few months ago Mike Pompeo visited Belarus promising all kinds of support. Lukashenko refused and look what is happening in Belarus. The people who choose to stay blind are those who will see the truth when its too late.
The same propaganda like ukraine to fall this guverment and to put a puppet pro EU and US
If this goverment fall the next day they put the restrictions against covid 19 on
I don’t think Lukashenko gets it. The people realize the past election was rigged and want him gone. His threats of bringing in the Russian military just show how desperate Lukashenko is to hang onto power.
The ruling Elite will do anything to hold on to power!
Nice country and friendly people. Don’t make your country another Ukraine please.
ATTENTION!!! Svetlana is a PLAYER OF SOROSH AND ROTHSCHILDS
Stand with Belarusian from egypt many Belarusian come to egypt for vacation and they nice people hope for prosper to Belarus in the near future
Do not boast about democracy and do not talk about freedom, because Qatar is a country that governs the inheritance system and does not know pluralism and transfer of power like some Arab countries, and it confiscates the voices of the opposition, as happens in some Arab countries
Make sure your testimony is wounded
Everybody Call Workers Military Strikes For Free Belarus ⚪🔴⚪✊✊✊✊✊✊✊
Remember people, this is a CIA sponsored color revolution. Same as Ukraine, same as Libya, same as Syria, same as Venezuela and Bolivia, same as the BLM riots in the US. Nothing good will ever come from this.
Okay boomer
Yeah, all these people are paid by the CIA. 🤣 LOL, do you hear yourself, you shameless shill?
Is this the USA? No! You sure?
God help us all
Weird not seeing ppl with masks lol 😷
West are funding these protests.
That is what happens when you over step your authority sunshine.
Now for the Saudis
Really?I think abey ur king is prescribed in ur sharia law,right? You can explain to me.
Love from Uzbekistan, hope we also get fair elections one day
He is a man with nothing to lose and will do everything possible to remain in power, because he knows that once he is de-throned his web of bullshit and corruption will send him straight to jail.
Soon, Ukraine No.2
Belarusians should learn from Venezuela, Hong Kong, Chile, and Iran ! Protesters can’t push the government down !
VIVA LA REVOLUTION!!!
Beware, russians are coming
Love and support for Belarus!! ⚪🔴⚪
Are you watching Russia? You can kick putin and his cronies out too.
What about Saudi Arabs dictator. Let alone every single country in the Arab desert
They dont have such a big desire for change like Belarus, ask chinese, they are happy with CCP
Ya this is just whataboutism
What if the second election poll or referendum may also be fraudulent?
A lost course for NATO and Western criminals.
What?? WTF does NATO have to do with this, you clown?
lukashenko …. ITS OVER !!
NATO using his ugly female agent to desestabilize Belarus.. has turned the people of Belarus in a herd of Sheep convincing them that the best for them is a pro Western neoliberal globalist system close to EU….therefore these workers will lost his Jobs as all state companies will privatized and sold( which means lost of jobs) and others disolved ( especially close to military complex)…Ukraine once was a nuclear power and had a huge military industrial complex…Nowdays is a poor country without be member of EU, Ruling by Oligarchs and corrupt politics with an ongoing war beside which lead lost part of its territory…but it doesnt matter thet are “free” and rid of Russia!…
I thought its Million protesters, Just a thousands trolls, the new president should also use his enforcement power to eliminate violence protesters. Implement the police power!!
Yeah, let the police fight against the people of its supposed to protect, just to keep the last dictator in Europe where he wants to be.
The people of Belarus have had enough, they demand change, rightfully so. No support for Lukashenko. Time for change.
Isn’t all those 26 years in power ain’t enough?? That level of greed is reckless and risky, he should have stepped down with dignity and honour. He clearly should know it’s not time to underestimate the power of majority combined together, i think its time to let go.
Ukraine 2.0 in the making.
The west deceives once again….learn from Ukraine.
26 years ?
For god’s sake, this is the 21st century, – and it is not in the sorry state of Russia. The dictator has got to go.
Belarus needs to join the free, democratic, and transparent West. We welcome them with open arms.
Wish Chinese would do the same thing to their dictator!
My heart goes out to the Belarusian people. Love from the Philippines, stay strong! PH
Belarus get prepared to defend yourselves. Putin is warning other nations not to interfere. The Russians are coming to put you down. Rise up now or be slaves.
Jivi Belarus!
Disarm the forces of repression! STOP the huge electoral cheating! Let Lukashenko return everything he has stolen for thirty years. That his forces of repression be arrested and condemned for their violence and their murders. Stop the dictatorship !!! Пусть Лукашенко вернет все, что он украл за !
Something wrong with the Election.
…Kolesnikova was trained in Ukraine from Soros group….if you trust the West you will be on the hook and you go down like Ukraine…..