Analysis
Politics
European Commission Report Highlights Ukraine’s Gains in Governance, Reform and Resilience
7 November 2024
13 April 2023
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 Lukashenka. However, 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.