Vincuk Viacorka is arrested and sentenced to 15 days behind bars. The leader of Belarusian Popular Front had been one of the main personas behind Milinkevich even before he won in the Congress of Democratic Forces and became a single candidate. Viacorka was one of key members of the candidate’s HQ and now he and a few other campaigners are neutralized until way after the elections day.
A number of Belarusian informational and oppositional websites received a letter from, as it says, a KGB agent, giving away plans of the regime.
I decided to offer a concise run through the main points of the revelation:
We, officers of the Committee of State Security of Belarus, declare the following! After the television addresses of presidential candidates, Alaxandar Milinkevich and especially Alexander Kazulin, we began receiving messages from all around the country that Belarusians were actively discussing what they had heard, expressed their support for the oppositional politicians and negative remarks about the incumbent.
The information we have shows that the president’s rating has dropped. Even in Mahilou province, it does not exceed 23%. […]
We see that the authorities are scared. A meeting of the armed forces and law enforcement commanders, where Alexander Lukashenka presided, was purely hysterical. KGB Chief Stepan Sukhorenko got permission to execute immediate actions. The newly enacted laws – activities on behalf of an unregistered organization and involvement of under-aged persons – were applied. And that is why searches, identity checks and arrests have begun.
A 24\7 shadowing of Milinkevich and Kazulin and their main team members was ordered. Border control was toughened especially with Russia. Lists of automobile numbers were created of the disloyal and their family members.
Attacks on the organization Partnership is the beginning of our department’s provocations. Exemplars of falsified exit polls were prepared by our apparatus, and we know those people who did it. And what’s to expect? Here is a rundown:
1. On the elections day, Lukashenka HQ will be located in the President Administration building. All the main chiefs will be summoned there.
2. Elections day will not be a day-off for the nomenclature. They will have to be on the line and control the process.
3. A day before the elections – personal surveillance after all leaders. During the elections day - non-admission of leaders to the masses.
4. Internet and mobile connection will be blocked.
5. Measures will be taken to hamper entrance to Minsk during the elections day. A special statement is being prepared that access to Minsk would be limited because of the possible provocations. Trains, buses to Minsk will be canceled. Automobiles will be checked.
6. A scenario is being prepared to “find” guns and grenades in one of the oppositional offices, a garage, or a car. This is the main focus of the plan.
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9. A task is put forward to “find” a scoundrel with a large sum of money who would be handing it out to others for participation in street rallies. It is important to beware that some people are prepared, whom we don’t know, who will pretend to be opposition members.
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13. Task – one round only, more than 73% for Lukashenka, Milinkevich – not the second.
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The letter is quite long and can be read in entirety on Vojur’s blog. The original is in Russian.
