Reporter Brian Whelan has written some extensive articles on fascists and right
wing extremists here and in the UK and Europe. In line with that he has written
an excellent article on the dictatorship of Aleksander Lukashenko, often
referred to as Europes last dictator who has been in power since 1994.
Opposition parties are banned and gatherings are tightly controlled, even
handing out opposition literature is frowned upon and can result in jail
sentences. The regime has a lot of blessing from Russia with a lot of Russian
owned businesses in the region and these have become a target for anarchists.
Recently at a punk gig, a hundred fans were arrested in a development that does
not seem to have hit main stream headlines. Anarchists are being treated like
scum and sent to labour camps for speaking agianst the autocracy. More
information here...
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/every...ion-in-belarus
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/belar...sts-fight-back
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