Healing Belarus - Upholding Rule-of-law,

The International Community should be advised that the government of the Republic of Belarus is in dispute. Having committed electoral fraud, Alexander Lukashenko is responsible for blatant human rights violations in Belarus. Images of bloody injuries and videos of police attacking people with batons, rubber bullets, stun grenades, and water cannons flooded the airwaves after the sham election in Belarus on 9 August 2020. More than 6,000 people were arrested over four nights of largely peaceful protest that followed Lukashenko's fraudulent elections; countless protestors having been beaten and abused in prison. And as more prisoners are released, it has become clear that appalling conditions, abuse and torture have been widespread. Furthermore, the KGB security police has been accused of kidnapping and threatening to kill the Belarusian opposition politician Maria Kolesnikova. She was one of seven people on the board of a coordination council set up to transfer power away from Lukashenko. All except the Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich have either been imprisoned or deported. Maria Kolesnikova's complaint included the names and ranks of individual officers of the KGB and the organised crime agency whom she accuses of kidnapping and threatening to kill her. Hence it is imperative that individuals and organizations responsible of committing blatant human rights violations in Belarus are brought to justice - so that rule of law and democracy can be restored in the country. Also, EU foreign ministers have taken the first steps toward imposing sanctions on top officials in Belarus as protests continue to sweep the country; the EU's 27 leaders stating that the bloc did not recognize the results of the fraudulent elections. It should be noted, that foreign observers have not declared a Belarusian election free and fair since 1995; Mr. Lukashenko having established an effective dictatorship since 1994, sustaining his tyrannical grip on Belarus by shamelessly rigging elections. Hence the International Community is advised to keep a safe distance from the Lukashenko Government, until it has agreed to improve itself - by implementing a peaceful and democratic transition in Belarus; so that rule of law, democracy and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) can be restored in Belarus. In the meantime domestic policy, foreign policy and human rights issues concerning the Republic of Belarus will be handled by the NGO BTB-Global Peacebuilding.