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Polish lawyer Tomasz Wilinski filed an application with the International Criminal Court in The Hague accusing Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and his “accomplices” of genocide and crimes against humanity. Belarusian opposition leader Pavel Latushko wrote about this in his Telergam channel.
Earlier, Wilinski sent a similar statement to the National Prosecutor’s Office of Poland. According to Latushko, the lawsuit, filed on behalf of a large number of Belarusian citizens, including Latushko himself, contains 160 pages of legal justification and 40,000 pages of documents in an appendix. The plaintiffs are calling on the International Criminal Court to launch an investigation. In it, in addition to the leader of Belarus, Belarusian security officials and representatives of authorities appear.
At the end of January, Alexander Lukashenko, speaking with a message to the people and parliament, said that it was difficult for him to understand democracy. Asked how he sees democracy in Belarusian, Lukashenka replied: “I’m a dictator, it’s hard for me to understand democracy.” He also stated that there are no generally accepted standards for it.
Recall that in August 2020, presidential elections were held in Belarus. Alexander Lukashenko managed to keep the post of head of state, but after the voting ended, riots broke out in the country. As the protesters stated, the representative of the opposition Svetlana Tikhanovskaya became the winner in the elections. After the announcement of the results of the vote, she left the country, declaring herself the national leader of Belarus.
The protests that erupted after the announcement of the results of the presidential elections were harshly suppressed. The Belarusian security forces dispersed the protesters, including with the help of batons, stun grenades, tear gas and rubber bullets. Protesters and journalists detained during the rallies complained of torture in places of temporary detention. According to the UN, 450 cases of torture and ill-treatment of people have been documented in Belarus.
Source: Rosbalt
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