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On 13 Aug 01, at 2:27, Rick Rozoff wrote:
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> Belarus Opposition Plans Yugoslav-Style Protest
>
> MOSCOW, Aug 13, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) The
> opposition in Belarus is planning a Yugoslav-style
> scenario to end the rule of President Alexander
> Lukashenko after elections next month, one of his
> close aides charged Friday.
>
> Vladimir Zametalin, deputy head of the presidential
> administration, said in an interview the methods
> expected were the use of "so-called independent
> observers and a parallel count of the votes."
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> "Then so-called experts conclude that none of the
> candidates has obtained a majority. That's how it
> happened in Yugoslavia," he told the newspaper
> Sovietskaya Belorussia published here.
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> Belarus -- the former Soviet constituent republic of
> Belorussia -- will hold presidential elections on
> September 9.
>
> "The final act of this scenario is public disorder
> after the election," Zametalin said.
>
> But the official recalled that President Lukashenko
> had already warned he would not tolerate the kind of
> scenario that occurred last fall in Belgrade.
>
> After elections there, opponents of the then president
> Slobodan Milosevic claimed victory for Vojislav
> Kostunica, the reformer who later replaced him after
> public unrest broke out.
>
> Lukashenko has been isolated by the West because of
> his domestic policy, and is heavily criticized by the
> opposition at home for his hardline rule. He faces
> three rivals in next month's election. ((c) 2001
> Agence France Presse)
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