A lot of going on #Belarus, but it is worth to return to 30 July when more than 60,000 gathered at #Tsikhanouskaya rally in #Minsk

It seems to me that on that day Veronica Tsepkalo gave the best political speech I have ever head in #Belarus

Here is the excerpt from it
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My mother worked with our current President Lukashenko. At that time he worked as a deputy and they were well acquainted, they worked together. When he came to power, when the current president came to power - naturally, any working person in this country,
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any person who has achieved at least anything in this country, there always will be something to put him in prison for, there will always be something to falsify against him, there will always be that He will always be to blame for something. And my mother was no exception.
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When the current president came to power, they fabricated a case against my mother, but at that time she was already very seriously ill: she had the third stage of cancer. And she was taken into custody right in the hospital.
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My sister and I were not allowed in for a long time, because she was under arrest in an oncological hospital. But after many days of persuasion, requests, pleas (because we implored to see our mother every day) the authorities took pity on us,
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and they let me and my sister in to go to my mother. What I saw then turned my whole life, turned my whole soul upside down. I went into the ward, 2 supervisors were sitting, and my mother was lying on the floor, chained to a radiator [in the wall].
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And she was chained to the radiator by the hand that had been burned to the bone by chemotherapy.
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And then at that very moment I saw and understood the real face of the authorities. I saw it 20 years ago — who they are, what they do and why they are still remain in our country.

Shame on the authorities! They acted on his orders.
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As I said, at that very moment half of my soul, half of my heart died forever, and twenty years later, twenty years later! I see this picture: a mother lying on the the floor, chained to a radiator with an aching hand.
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Aren't you ashamed, the authorities? How can you torment your people like that?
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You know, I talked to my mother very often and a lot. And I remember one piece of advice that I try to stick to it to this day. She always told me: "Regardless of anything, always remain human, always do good, because this good will return to you a hundred times."
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All my life I have been trying to follow this advice. And now I think that we will all do a good deed for Belarus if we elect a normal new president, - told Veronica Tsepkalo

VIDEO of the excerpt [In Russian] https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1242561569457109&id=100011098323222&__xts__[0]=68.ARAzys6uxTLuLCJ5_Dc-h4I53suKAdAOa7y6-jcwhiMS4E4y9eestUmJu3H1yOvmityU6224oIVZaXLybZC0EM6AdgSkkUsuOpFMmJEX6w3ABu0hexBK3-O41AYI9d9iV8FG6Ydhhuh-qxrnQxFnsKnDsVGfeMxwJcaqr3Nv6-ykGJqyjV_iSYcRxfkRtzAtOC6S7bNxP9bfBrcmUpoh4JTu4ZAafT_d1yfkX4LMKESfjDrPpNzqjWWpgw1KyfsRs1v_fypRqUIouBBHAi4RAbC_AUPX43hLNXsCSv-qviFiXkIb9-Om85gEFVtecO1011xx63_ODUCAOqsjSPpv_M7Qkzv5pcMlEiBgBw&__tn__=-R

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