Day of Will.

Thousands of people went out to the square today to show that they will not allow to be tricked once again. That they had enough of this circius of Mr. Lukashenko.

But today goverment acted more brutually. Special forces(called SOBR in Belarus) attcked protesters. Sonore and fumigene grenades with lacrymogène gas being used. People being beated to death and arrested. Kozylin and Milinkevich, both, were arrested today.

Update
Folks, it is very bad right now in Belarus. And saying bad I mean it. Radio Liberty’s live programs do not work. There is lack of news,photos and videos about what is going on right now in Minsk, Belarus. Here is what was happening since 12 pm in Minsk:

12:45
At least 2,000 policemen and riot policemen have gathered on the central avenue of Minsk. They have helmets and truncheons. Now they are approaching the protesters. Riot policemen have blocked the traffic on Skaryna Avenue

12:50
Thousands of Belarusian citizens are standing in front of riot policemen’s cordons chanting: “We are not trash!”, “Long live Belarus!”, “Milinkevich”.

12:55
Cops started using special weapons against protesters clubbing them and forcing to leave the avenue

1:oo pm
Policemen and riot policemen attempt to provoke a stampede resembling tragedy in Nyamiha metro station in Minsk in 1999. People were encircled and almost choked while pushed out of the square

1:05 pm
Columns of protesters are merging. People cross the street and join other protesters. More than 1,000 policemen are opposing the protesters in this part of the city.

1:10 PM
Lenin Street is closed to traffic starting from Freedom Square. It is impossible to come to October Square from the side of the Palace of Trade Unions. People are clubbed and kicked; they are driven out from Skaryna Avenue. A sound of police siren is heard

1:12 PM
The single democratic candidate for presidency Alyaksandr Milinkevich is in Yanka Kupala Park at the moment. He cannot come to the protesters

1:15
Protesters are moving towards Svaboda Square (Freedom Square). The square is cordoned off by hundreds of policemen as well. People are rounding Freedom Square, and via Nyamiha Street moving towards Yanka Kupala Park, where Alyaksandr Milinkevich is now

1:20PM
From 3 to 5 thousands of people are marching along Kamsamolskaya and Internatsyyanalnaya Streets in the direction of Yanka Kupala Park. Almost the same number of people is moving passing through Nyamiha Street

1:40 PM
10,000 demonstrators under white-red-white flags are gathering to Yanka Kupala Park from different parts of the city. All passing cars give honks as a sign of solidarity with protesters. People are chanting in unison: “Long live Belarus!”, “Freedom Now!”

1:45PM
A filming crew of the state Belarusian TV channel “professionals” that has arrived to picture the meeting in the Yanka Kupala Park is pelted with snowballs. Participants of the peaceful protest chant in unison “Disgrace on Belarusian TV!” and drive them out of the park.
1:50 pm
Alyaksandr Milinkevich, the leader of the united democratic forces, delivers a speech near Yanka Kupala monument.

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Alyaksandr Milinkevich has announced that the Belarusian National Liberation Movement is created. It is to fight for Freedom, Truth, and Justice. This movement is to unite all democratic forces of Belarus. “We shall fight for free elections, without Lukashenka! By rigging elections results, the regime neared its end. We are winning! We are the majority. The dictatorship will fall down. It fears truth. We are free people. The Belarusians are a free nation. We shall win, as truth, law and justice are at our side!”

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2:10 PM

In Yanka Kupala Park the meeting continues. More than 10,000 Belarusians are taking part in it. The leader of the Belarusian Popular Front party Vintsuk Vyachorka has addressed the meeting and read the address of the Chairperson of the Belarusian People’s Republic Ivonka Survilla.

2:20 pm
Participants of the meeting demand to release all political prisoners, arrested previously. The presidential candidate, former BSU rector Alyaksandr Kazulin, called upon the people to march to the special detention center in Akrestsin Street after the meeting. Protesters are scanning: “Freedom!”

2:25 pm
A. Kazulin announces that a well-known journalist Pavel Sheremet has been arrested. People are scanning: “Freedom to Sheremet”

2:35 PM
Speakers at the meeting propose to exclude Russia from G8 for supporting Lukashenka’s dictatorship. People are chanting in unison: “Disgrace on Putin”

2:40 pm
Participants of the 10-thousand-strong meeting in Yanka Kupala Park shout: “Milinkevich is our president”

4:30 pm
According to preliminary information, the candidate for presidency, former BSU rector Alyaksandr Kazulin, is detained. Policemen continue to disband and push away the protesters.

4:45 pM
Mass detentions of people have started. Peaceful demonstrators are packed to paddy wagons and police buses. Many of them are brutally beaten, they are bleeding.

5:OO PM
Policemen continue to beat up people. Riot policemen and SWAT tear off people from the crowd one by one and club them till their faces bleed. Then people are thrown to paddy wagons and police buses and taken into unknown location. The slaughter is under command of SWAT commander Dzmitry Paulichenka, suspected of abductions and assassinations of opposition leaders by international community.

5:05 PM
The AFN informs, as said by witnesses: “The scull of the dead young man was broken by a club. He fell and riot policemen simply trampled on him. Now the Belarusian TV is invited, to film that the demonstrators have simply tromped to death on their own supporter.Mass arrests continue on the place of the column’s disbanding. As the Radio Svaboda informs, people beaten up by riot policemen are carried away in stretchers.

Peaceful demonstrators are attacked by smoke-granades and noise-making explosives, sirens are producing huge amount of noise. Teargas is blown in the air on the streets leading to Aktestsin str. People use pavements on both sides of the Myasnikou str. which is the route to the Akrestina prison. Panic seizes people. Special police is slaughting people. Again commander of the Special Police Really Dzmitry Paulichenka kicked the former rector of The Belarusian state University Alexander Kоzulin. Bleeding man lies unconscious behind cordons.

Update
According to eyewitnesses, there are many injured people laying on the streets around the Opera Theater. Police continues to use gas and smoke grenades, by groups around 6 each they attack single demonstrators and brutally beat them up leaving bleading victims on the streets.

Update 12:08 pm est

These guys are sick animals, nothing less than this! I will repeat, sick animals who do not have anuthing humane left in their hearts and brains. Nazis SS is what can closely describe people who serve to Lukashenka.

Update

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