Lukashenko wants all rioting workers fired, students expelled
<p> MINSK, Oct 27 - PrimePress. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko demanded on October 27, 2020 that workers and students who participate in unauthorized actions are fired and expelled, the presidential press office reports. </p> <p> </p> <p> “With all these ultimatums and calls for strikes fr om Poland and Lithuania, stop trying to reach the workers, students, doctors, teachers or civil servants. Now is the moment when everyone has to choose the path to follow. If the workers do not want to work, farewell. There are few of them who do not want to. The students, who want to study, should do that. Those who went out in violation of the law on unauthorized actions shall be deprived of the right to be a student. Enlist them to the army or kick them out to the street. Let them march there. But they must be expelled from the universities. The same concerns the lecturers, those few who behave disgustingly in the universities,” Lukashenko said. </p> <p> </p> <p> “I repeat: do not ask anyone or persuade anyone. It’s useless. At best, in this situation, we will drive them into corners, and they will crawl back again. Therefore, let them choose wh ere and how to live and what to do,” he said. </p> <p> </p> <p> According to Lukashenko, Belarus is beginning to face terrorist threats. “You probably remember me saying that we must work carefully in this hard time, as those protestors hang out in the streets, mostly in Minsk, or in Minsk alone, actually. We see that this remaining crowd has radicalized. We see the organizers and those who embody those ideas. And then I said that we should work carefully, since they had not yet crossed the line. The last few days show that they have crossed this line.” </p> <p> </p> <p> As previously reported, massive protest actions against the official voting results began in Belarus after the presidential election of August 9, 2020, in which Lukashenko was declared the winner for the sixth time with 80.1% of the vote. The first days, August 9-11, saw a brutal crackdown on nonviolent protesters. The riot police uses stun grenades and rubber bullets. According to official reports, over 7,000 people were detained, hundreds injured, and three killed in the first few days alone. Hundreds of facts of beatings and tortures of those detained were also reported. Lukashenko was inaugurated on September 23, although he not officially recognized as president by the United States, Canada, Great Britain, the European Union and Ukraine. End </p>
2020-10-28
Primepress
Lukashenko wants all rioting workers fired, students expelled
MINSK, Oct 27 - PrimePress. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko demanded on October 27, 2020 that workers and students who participate in unauthorized actions are fired and expelled, the presidential press office reports.
“With all these ultimatums and calls for strikes fr om Poland and Lithuania, stop trying to reach the workers, students, doctors, teachers or civil servants. Now is the moment when everyone has to choose the path to follow. If the workers do not want to work, farewell. There are few of them who do not want to. The students, who want to study, should do that. Those who went out in violation of the law on unauthorized actions shall be deprived of the right to be a student. Enlist them to the army or kick them out to the street. Let them march there. But they must be expelled from the universities. The same concerns the lecturers, those few who behave disgustingly in the universities,” Lukashenko said.
“I repeat: do not ask anyone or persuade anyone. It’s useless. At best, in this situation, we will drive them into corners, and they will crawl back again. Therefore, let them choose wh ere and how to live and what to do,” he said.
According to Lukashenko, Belarus is beginning to face terrorist threats. “You probably remember me saying that we must work carefully in this hard time, as those protestors hang out in the streets, mostly in Minsk, or in Minsk alone, actually. We see that this remaining crowd has radicalized. We see the organizers and those who embody those ideas. And then I said that we should work carefully, since they had not yet crossed the line. The last few days show that they have crossed this line.”
As previously reported, massive protest actions against the official voting results began in Belarus after the presidential election of August 9, 2020, in which Lukashenko was declared the winner for the sixth time with 80.1% of the vote. The first days, August 9-11, saw a brutal crackdown on nonviolent protesters. The riot police uses stun grenades and rubber bullets. According to official reports, over 7,000 people were detained, hundreds injured, and three killed in the first few days alone. Hundreds of facts of beatings and tortures of those detained were also reported. Lukashenko was inaugurated on September 23, although he not officially recognized as president by the United States, Canada, Great Britain, the European Union and Ukraine. End