August 11
During the first night of protests in Belarus against fraudulent presidential elections concluded on August 9, one young man was killed, many injured and an incredible 3,000 people were detained. This was while the world was still watching and could see the brutality of riot police and soldiers against peaceful protesters. In a very somber call on Monday evening, August 10, the former world chess champion and Russian opposition politician Gary Kasparov wrote: “Listen to the Belarusian people. And watch, so they and their dictator know the world is watching. Every democracy should let Lukashenka (and his enablers, Putin and Xi Jinping) know there will be consequences for a massacre.”