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Belarus Nobel-winner Alexievich urges Lukashenko to go
"Leave before you've thrown people into the abyss of civil war"
13 August, 12:59
(ANSA-AFP) - MINSK, 13 AGO - Belarusian Nobel Prize-winning
writer Svetlana Alexievich condemned police violence against
protesters in her country and urged strongman Alexander
Lukashenko to go peacefully in an interview published Wednesday.
The 72-year-old author won the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize for her work chronicling the horrors of war and life under the repressive Soviet regime including the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
In her first public reaction to the protests that have broken out across Belarus over Sunday's disputed presidential election, the writer told Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe that Lukashenko should step down peacefully to prevent a bloody civil war.
"Leave before it's too late, before you've thrown people into a terrible abyss, into the abyss of civil war," she appealed to Lukashenko, whom she has long criticised. "You just want power and your desire will end up with blood," she said, accusing the Belarusian authorities of "declaring war on their own people." She expressed shock at the "inhumane, satanic" actions of riot police, saying this was previously unimaginable and suggesting Minsk may have brought in reinforcements from Russia.
(ANSA-AFP).
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The 72-year-old author won the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize for her work chronicling the horrors of war and life under the repressive Soviet regime including the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
In her first public reaction to the protests that have broken out across Belarus over Sunday's disputed presidential election, the writer told Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe that Lukashenko should step down peacefully to prevent a bloody civil war.
"Leave before it's too late, before you've thrown people into a terrible abyss, into the abyss of civil war," she appealed to Lukashenko, whom she has long criticised. "You just want power and your desire will end up with blood," she said, accusing the Belarusian authorities of "declaring war on their own people." She expressed shock at the "inhumane, satanic" actions of riot police, saying this was previously unimaginable and suggesting Minsk may have brought in reinforcements from Russia.
(ANSA-AFP).
