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| Subject: Belarus allows barbaric poLICE to use lethal weapons at mass anti-government protests Tue Oct 13, 2020 4:08 am | |
| Belarus police can now use lethal weapons in the streets if needed, the interior ministry said on Monday, due to what it described as the radicalization of mass anti-government protests. Security forces detained dozens of protesters on Sunday and used water cannon and batons to break up crowds demanding a new presidential election. Footage published by local news outlets showed police officers wearing black balaclavas dragging protesters into unmarked black vans and beating protesters with their batons at a rally that drew thousands onto the streets of the capital, Minsk.
One sequence showed a police van unleashing a powerful jet of water from a cannon into crowds, visibly pushing them back. Belarus, a former Soviet republic closely allied with Russia, has been rocked by street protests and strikes since authorities announced that veteran leader Alexander Lukashenko had won an August 9 vote by a landslide.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/12/europe/belarus-police-crackdown-protesters-intl/index.html
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