Both Russia and Belarus have recently seen a wave of protests. In Russia, the protests began later and are said to follow the Belarus scenario. Many people witnessed how brutal was the police breaking up the Minsk protests.
In both countries, the protests seem to have calmed down until spring.
We remember that Lukashenko has won in the first round of this game, thanks to loyalty of his security agencies. But are they actually that loyal to him?
BYPOL is a network of dissident former officers from the Belarusian security agencies and law-enforcement system. Many of their colleagues do not trust the system anymore and therefore they provide evidence against the current officers of the system who were involved in illegal action.
Konstantin Goldenzweig went to Poland where BYPOL is based in order to find out more about the organisation.
Contents:
0:00 Intro
2:28 About BYPOL
5:16 Where is BYPOL based?
7:15 Where does the information about torture of people come from?
10:30 What is the system afraid of?
13:09 Who is being exposed by BYPOL?
16:33 Who works in BYPOL?
19:25 What did current opponents of Lukashenko use to think about being a part of the system?
20:50 Why current BYPOL member who used to be investigators joined the protests?
24:18 What happened when an establisher of BYPOL wanted to leave the system and published his resignation letter?
25:45 A story of a man who left the system but did not leave the country.
29:11 An establisher of BYPOL had to escape into the forest.
34:00 Why was BYPOL created?
35:55 A conversation with a Belarusian politician.
37:30 Who sponsors BYPOL?
40:21 What is a database that registers the crimes? What is it for?
44:39 Sergey Tikhonovskiy's case
48:04 Will people be able to trust former officers from the law-enforcement system?
50:00 Why does not BYPOL like NEXTA's methods of resistance?
51:23 New reforms offered by people who used to work in the system.
2 июн 2024
