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Riot police began their operation at 3 am Minsk time and after 15 minutes the camp was demolished and the protesters arrested. br23 blog and Rush-Mush have updates on the aftermath: the amazingly slanted coverage on the Russian-language EuroNews; Minsk residents' approval of the regime's actions; a sample leaflet distributed by the opposition in Minsk now; translation of LJ user kurt-belarus‘ post-operation appeal; translation of one protester's account of the operation on Radio Liberty's Belarusian Service.

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  • Pingback: …My heart’s in Accra » Protests in Minsk: Nice while it lasted

    [...] Veronika Khokhlova, GV’s Central and Eastern Europe editor, has a thorough roundup of reactions to the arrests. A Russian language weblog has a powerful collection of photos from the square after the protesters were taken away - empty tents, signs and banners on the ground, a garbage truck filled with the detritus of democratic protest. [...]

    # 2006-03-24 at 10:07 am

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