Opinion | My Country Is Under Attack

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So who is on our side? Are you, world? Do you feel any empathy for people beaten in plain daylight for walking to the store, for people attacked with truncheons? Do you think that Belarusians should be sanguine when the ambulance that arrives to tend to the wounded spills out riot police instead of doctors? For how long is it OK to go on without being able to locate your family and friends in one of Belarus’s many prisons, where officials shove desperate people away from the doors like stray dogs?

Last year, Mr. Lukashenko called Belarusians lazy “narodets” — a people not worthy to be called a nation. But Belarusians, who have always lived inside the reactor of history, know differently. And over the last four days, in love and solidarity with each other, they have shown their authoritarian ruler how greatly he is mistaken.

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My Country Is Under Attack | The New York Times

Belarusians took to the streets to reclaim their dignity. The government responded with brutal violence.

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