"Belarus police use tear gas at protest" July 04, 2011|Associated Press
MINSK - Police used tear gas to break up an antigovernment protest in Belarus and forcefully detained dozens of demonstrators yesterday in the capital.
The authoritarian government had tried to thwart the protest by blocking access to Facebook, Twitter, and a major Russian social networking site used by the organizers. The government also deployed thousands of police and secret service agents in central Minsk as an additional deterrent.
But about 700 or 800 people gathered on a central square. Using a new tactic introduced by young activists this summer, they clapped their hands in unison to show their opposition to President Alexander Lukashenko.
Public discontent is swelling as Belarus experiences its worst financial crisis since the fall of the Soviet Union....
Lukashenko, appearing earlier yesterday, warned that “an escalation of information intervention is under way’’ in Belarus as part of plans drawn up in “the capitals of separate countries’’ to bring about a popular revolution.
Moscow has been pushing for greater control over the Belarusian economy in exchange for loans to help Lukashenko’s government weather the financial turmoil.
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If you look at it from a globalist neo-con perspective it is a good way of keeping Russia busy while Iran is attacked.
