We protest in a neighborly one

Minsk residents changed the tactics of protests and now win in their territories

Mass protests against the falsification of the results of the presidential election have not stopped in Belarus since August. Lukashenko and his “weak -winged” (as Belarusians call the security forces) continue to subject the protesters of cruel repressions. According to human rights organizations, about 31 thousand people were detained a little more than 100 days of protests in Belarus, many of them have already passed through courts and prisons with terrible conditions.

- Cold. Many were afraid, and Lukashenko with his retinue only hoped for this that in such conditions the protests would be blown away, ”the resident of the Minsk microdistrict, Malinovka, argues. - Yes, going out for protests is really not as comfortable as in the warm season. In addition, now many Belarusians are sick with coronavirus. But we understand:

If you now give up positions, the fascism and legal lawlessness in which we all live now will be finally rooted, and then all of us not to settle.

Just like Mikhail, thousands of Belarusians now think. Therefore, a few weeks ago they decided to go out for protest shares earlier, by 12 o’clock, and not by 14, to capture more than a daylight day, and then they even came up with a new protest format - “courtyard rallies”. Their essence is not to gather not one thousands of a column in a particular area, but at once in all.

- Surely Lukashenko thought that the departure of the protesters of the Minsk in areas is a victory. Like, there is no thousands of crowds going through the city center, and okay. But it wasn’t there. In fact, it was easier to cope with one crowd of security forces, moreover, in a few months they already had a worked out scheme. And here, excuse me, the war in the new territory. In addition, also in new locations, - Anastasia already argues. The girl takes part in almost all protests and already considers herself a protesting with decent experience.

The last such "courtyard rallies" took place in Minsk on November 29. People in advance were coordinated in district and courtyard chats, and agreed to go out to the yards, to local shopping centers, shops and in the square. In some larger central areas, the protesters decided to “take a walk” bypassing the center and the avenues in order to minimize the number of detainees as much as possible. Many, knowing their territory perfectly, agreed in advance: if they begin to surround, run scattering, and then we meet at a common point.

For example, the residents of Malinovka did this. The district is considered sleeping, and there are many so -called “specific boys” who may not go to the general Sunday rallies, but they certainly went “for the district”. The security forces against their background seemed helpless kittens, and the Internet the next day flew away from the video from a video where not the inhabitants of the raspberry run away from the riot police, but rather. The fact that people in helmets used against protesters and tear gas, and light -school grenades did not help them. The protesters did not run away even after that.

“It was like the game“ Cossacks-robbers ”, where the people are Cossacks, and these in masks and with batons are robbers,” says Olga Malinovka, a resident of the same Malinovka. - We played perfectly. The robbers were not enough for all Cossacks. They could not, and they are unlikely to be able to cope with all of us.

According to journalists, about a few tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Minsk on November 29. This is really smaller than in the fall, but in total, the protesters arranged more than 60 separate protests.

Human rights activists confirm: from the point of view of the number of the number of detainees, the change in the format format was indeed effective. According to the Vasna human rights center, 416 people were detained on Sunday. And this is much less than when the Belarusians reached one common rally.

The protesters themselves liked the new format, but Lukashenko and his “weak -winged” he seemed to be angry even more.

The next day, November 30, pensioners reached the traditional “march of wisdom”, who were also joined by doctors.

As always, grandparents, who were tired of Lukashenko, moved in the center of the city from the Red Church. But soon the way to the Manifesto, chanting “shame!”, Patrol cars blocked the police. And there were really many of them. Previously, pensioners were not observed on the marches of pensioners.

Some of the participants in the “march of wisdom” managed to bypass the security forces, but then the people in Balaklavas turned the column in the opposite direction and again blocked the movement along the sidewalk, holding people into the ring. But pensioners were not afraid, and those who were surrounded, and completely sang the “sacred war”.

"Grandmothers and grandfathers, we go to victory!" - Meanwhile, the demonstrators who found themselves in another, free, column were chanted.

After some time, a skirmish occurred between protesters and “unknown people in helmets”. Near the KGB building, pensioners began to push the military with batons in their hands. The video that scattered through social networks shows how several protesters grabbed people in green uniform and dragged them into a minibus.

Already in the evening, Minsk residents were detained in yard tea drinks simply because they are friends of the courtyards and want the same - freedom from the dictator, which, it seems, has already finally lost control, declared war against their own citizens.