br23 blog reports on the alarming steps the Belarus government are taking to prevent Orange Revolution-style protests after the March 19th election. Essentially, they plan to lock down the capital city:
So the information from an anonymous KGB agent was correct. Here’s Lukashenka’s perfect defense plan: they quietly canceled all incoming trains and buses to Minsk from all the cities, towns or villages on March, 19 and March, 20.
There are already dozens of people from the regions who reported that they couldn’t book a ticket from their home town to Minsk on March 19, because it was supposedly “all sold out” or “all booked.”
Not sure where this information came from, or how accurate it is, but it will certainly dampen any potential protests.
I don’t think it will silence protests altogether, though – there are still a lot of people inside Minsk, and if they can kick things off, and keep protesting for long enough, others will find a way to join them.
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Cheers Ken. I can only really take credit for the content though. The design is from the vslider template (which is linked to at the bottom right of this page).