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IPFS News Link • Police State

So you don’t think the fight is real? Consider the elections of Belarus…

• PitchforksAtTheGate.com
Think these guys are interested in protecting your right? Think they give a shit about beating the crap out of you because they were told to? Because they can? Think these guys are any different from the guys here? International observers and Western governments accused Belarus' strongman leader of using fraud and violence to remain in power after more than 16 years of repressive rule, saying Monday that President Alexander Lukashenko's re-election had been seriously flawed. Seven of the nine candidates opposing Lukashenko were taken into custody, including one who witnesses said was beaten by government forces, then dragged from his hospital bed by men in plainclothes.The president said 639 people were arrested. The Organization for Security and Coooperation in Europe said the count in Sunday's vote was "bad or very bad" in half the country's precincts where observers watched the count. It also strongly criticized the violent dispersal by riot police of a post-election protest

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