Cracks Deepen in Belarusian Opposition as Regime Holds Nation in Iron Grip

Will the divergent BY opposition embrace dialogue after a democratic transition?

13 April 2023

Viktoryia Kolchyna

Marcin Król Fellow

Belarusian opposition cannot allow divisions to distract them from the common goal – deposing Lukashenka and restoring freedom and democracy. Maintaining Western support and establishing a dialogue with Kyiv will be crucial in this task.

The International Criminal Court’s decision in March to issue an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin for the alleged war crimes in Ukraine rightly caught the world’s attention, but it should not diminish the international community’s determination to investigate and charge with crimes against humanity his close ally, the Belarusian dictator Aliaksandr LukashenkaHowever, the ongoing political crisis in Belarus has no end in sight.

Before he was sentenced to ten years in March 2023, Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2022, Ales Bialiatski, director of the Belarusian Human Rights Centre Viasna, had called for the establishment of international mechanisms for investigations into crimes against humanity in Belarus.

Backed by Moscow, the Belarusian dictator, who holds his country in an iron grip for the third decade, continues to crush civil society with a reign of terror unlike anything seen since Stalin times.

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Viktoryia Kolchyna

Marcin Król Fellow

Viktoryia Kolchyna is a journalist and contributing author that has covered Human Rights topics for multiple networks including Belsat TV and Al Jazeera English. She worked on documentaries that won several awards, including NYF TV & Film Awards, Silver World Medal Film People & Power- Russia: The Orthodox Connection( 2019) and Nomination for Rory Peck Award from Al Jazeera People & Power- Armenia: Mining out the leopard (2019).

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