Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya expects European democracies to give more hope and support to people in her homeland if oppression there is to end. European leaders must show Belarusians that they are not forgotten and that they belong to the democratic world, Tikhanovskaya said today at a forum in the Lithuanian parliament in Vilnius, BNS news agency reported. According to Tikhanovksaya, who was driven into exile by authoritarian Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko in 2020, people who have been living under oppression for so many years need a “positive agenda”. However, he said the leaders of democratic European countries were reluctant to send positive messages to the people of Belarus that they are welcome and that the door is open for them. “The people of Belarus are disappointed by this,” said Tikhanovskaya, 41, who now lives in Lithuania. Lukashenko has ruled the former Soviet republic since 1994 and is a close ally […]
Source: News Beast
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