IN THE PRESS: The Washington Post on election in Belarus (03/12/06)

IN THE PRESS

The Washington Post on election in Belarus

"A Dictator's Elections," editorial on the presidential election in Belarus, The Washington Post, March 6:

"... Western governments have been trying to show support for the opposition: Last Monday President [George W.] Bush met with the widows of two Belarusian leaders who were abducted and murdered by Mr. [Alyaksandr] Lukashenko's [Lukashenka's] government. The West should now prepare to take action in the event that international monitors report electoral fraud or the regime again resorts to violence. At a minimum the Belarusan president and his family and all senior members of his government should be targeted by financial sanctions aimed at their Western bank accounts and other assets. And Mr. Bush should ask for accountability from Mr. Lukashenko's chief economic and political sponsor. That would be Russian President Vladimir Putin, the only leader besides Mr. Lukashenko himself who still supports dictatorship in Europe."

(Editor's note: The Weekly readers the last name of the Belarus' president as Lukashenka. Also, according to our Belarusian sources, the correct adjectival form of the country's name is Belarusian.)

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