Belarus needs stronger support from Europe and America, if democracy is to prevail
On International Holocaust Memorial Day, Roger Casale, Secretary General, New Europeans and Olga Kostukevich, New Europeans Minsk share eye-witness reports from inside Belarus and argue the country urgently needs more help from its friends, especially from Europe.
Published on 27 January 2021 at 09:30
Three years ago, German President Frank Steinmeier attended the opening of a memorial to Maly Trostenets, the largest Nazi concentration camp on the territory of the old USSR. It was the first time a German President had ever visited Belarus.
Today, at Slutsk, 97 km south of Minsk, the Lukashenko regime is building a new detention centre. An eye-witness described it as “some kind of military unit, where prisoners are led past men in uniform, standing ten paces apart, holding a machine gun or a dog on a leash.”