Eye on Belarus - Democracy Strikes Back
In Belarus, the fire of Democracy continues to burn brightly despite attempts by the Lukashenko government to stamp it out. Yesterday the state police came in to October Square in the Capitol of Minsk and arrested some few hundred protestors, destroying the city of tents that the democratic protestors have erected. In the face of such a move by the Soviet style government within the last dictatorship in Eroupe, the protestors are back today by the thousands to rally against the illegitimate government that has secured itself a thrid term as of six days ago.
As the protestors are back in action so are the police, having clashed at the rally. Twenty or so peole have been detained by the police, as of this writing. The number of protestors continues to rise, as the reported numbers are somwhere between 3,000 and 5,000.
There are some amazing developments in the name of deomocracy happening today in Belarus. It's proof that the desire for democracy and freedom is strong in the hearts of many who are prevented from expirencing such freedom. Recent history has a number of examples that one can look to to back such assertions. The people's revolution in the Philipines in the 80's, and in the last few years the Orange and Velvet revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia.
Freedom and Democracy are ideas and principles that aren't just "Western" but they are universal ideas that all people want to expirence. Such is evident in places like Iraq and Afghanistan (despite recent developments concerning a Christian convert) where people are thankful that a "coalition of the willing" led by the United States has come in and toppled the totalitarian regimes that ruled those countries (the media in America and around the world paints a different picture but that is a picture that is inaccurate). It's a indiviuals God-given right to be free and not opressed by the government that they live under; the people of Belarus are doing all they can to assert that right. Interestingly enough though, violence is something that they have said they won't resort to, unlike the state "law enforcement" that has resported to great acts of violence in the previous days.
May that fire continue to burn brightly like the stars in the night sky
For Belarus
As the protestors are back in action so are the police, having clashed at the rally. Twenty or so peole have been detained by the police, as of this writing. The number of protestors continues to rise, as the reported numbers are somwhere between 3,000 and 5,000.
There are some amazing developments in the name of deomocracy happening today in Belarus. It's proof that the desire for democracy and freedom is strong in the hearts of many who are prevented from expirencing such freedom. Recent history has a number of examples that one can look to to back such assertions. The people's revolution in the Philipines in the 80's, and in the last few years the Orange and Velvet revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia.
Freedom and Democracy are ideas and principles that aren't just "Western" but they are universal ideas that all people want to expirence. Such is evident in places like Iraq and Afghanistan (despite recent developments concerning a Christian convert) where people are thankful that a "coalition of the willing" led by the United States has come in and toppled the totalitarian regimes that ruled those countries (the media in America and around the world paints a different picture but that is a picture that is inaccurate). It's a indiviuals God-given right to be free and not opressed by the government that they live under; the people of Belarus are doing all they can to assert that right. Interestingly enough though, violence is something that they have said they won't resort to, unlike the state "law enforcement" that has resported to great acts of violence in the previous days.
May that fire continue to burn brightly like the stars in the night sky
For Belarus
posted by A. R. Welty at 11:36 AM
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