Belarus Revolution Thread

[kelestian]

So I managed to read most of the report about the riot police joining the protestors:

https://www.dsnews.ua/world/u-dvoh-mistah-bilorusi-omon-vidstupiv-v-minsku-rostut-barikadi-09082020-394978

According to these reports, they refused to repress the protests in two cities- in one they retreat before the protestors, in the other they "lowered their shields to the applause of the protestors".

Yeah, Lukashenko is screwed if even the police are fed up with him.

Reports are overblown. People usually became very excited even after rumours of rebellous policemen. But so far i haven't seen any real evidence about divide between pro-Luka and anti-Luka police/military, some law enforment agents were very aggressive, others apathetic, but no signs of rebellion in their ranks.

[kelestian]

Absolutely horrible scenes are emerging though reports and video. Today several russian reporters were released and they returned to Russia. Their stories are very identical: tortures, beatings, humiliations in government prisons. I suspect dead count is much higher than official (2 protesters)
https://www.znak.com/2020-08-12/prprpl

Chechen-style forced apologies:
https://mobile.twitter.com/MBKhMedia/status/1293557095292440576

[kelestian]

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1332332372759629826

A constitution made by him and his supporters? Or something different?

He is lying as always. Constitutional change (what are they anyway?) were crafted by dictator's hencmen, he would control voting process etc. I can't see Lukashenko leaving power voluntarily, max he will granted himself new governmental post (speaker of legislature?) with new puppet-president.