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Belarus police disperse protesters, sounds of shots
Near Stalin-era execution site
01 November, 16:30
(ANSA-AFP) - MINSK, 01 NOV - Police in Belarus Sunday
dispersed protesters who had been marching from Minsk to a
Stalin-era execution site in the latest of weeks of
demonstrations against strongman Alexander Lukashenko's disputed
re-election. An AFP journalist heard loud bangs and the sound of
shots being fired and saw police chasing protesters in a field
not far from the Kuropaty site, a wooded area on the outskirts
of Minsk where thousands of people were executed during Stalin's
purges. The last time a march to the execution site was
violently dispersed was in the Soviet era in 1988 when
authorities used tear gas. On Sunday, thousands of people hit
the streets of Minsk in defiance of strongman Lukashenko's
latest threats to "take no prisoners." (ANSA-AFP).
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