During office hours: Minsk authorizes march in memory of Chernobyl disaster victims


Сhernobyl Path-2016

Minsk city executive committee might have granted its permission to hold Chernobyl Path rally and march in the Belarusian capital on April 26, but the officials demand the participants started gathering at 14:00 at the Academy of Sciences.

It should be noted that April 26 is a working day in 2017; consequently, many people who would like to join the march will have no opportunity to do it.

“Minsk Executive Committee’s answer is nothing but a mockery. Apparently, the regime will continue its policy of provocation and repression. Their permission is just a sop to Westsern lobbyists of the regime – they need some trump card to justify gross violations of human rights in Belarus,” Vital Rymasheuski, a co-chairman of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, said on Facebook.

The organizers of the Chernobyl Path (Charnobylski Shlyakh), a march in memory of the 1986 nuclear disaster victims, were set to start a rally at 18.00 near the building of the Opera House in Minsk, march along Bahdanovich street, lay flowers and light candles in memory of the aggrieved at Chernobyl Chapel near Bangalore Square. The main slogans of the event will be ‘No To Astravets NPP Construction’ and ‘No To Political, Social, Economic Chernobyl’.


On March 25, the Belarus riot police brutally dispersed a ‘non-parasite’ rally in Minsk. The protesters took to the streets to convey their deep outrage over the so-called tax on ‘spongers’ introduced by president Alyaksandr Lukashenka in 2015.

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