Vremya program at ONT channel seen by entire Belarus (Video)

On July 16 a TV piece of ORT channel about a press-conference of opposition leaders demanding international investigation of the political abductions was demonstrated broadcast in Belarus.

We remind that instead of the Russian First Channel (ORT) the ONT channel is broadcast, which as a rule cuts away all pieces criticizing Alyaksandr Lukashenka. This time censorship failed.

It is stated in the TV item that the Belarusian opposition demanded to open a criminal case related to screening of the TV film about possible implication of the leadership of the country to high-profile crimes, human abductions.

According to Belarusian oppositionists, the Office of Prosecutor General of Belarus must react in some way to the documentary “Godbatka” at the NTV channel. Strange behavior of the Belarusian law-enforcing agencies, which do not react in any way to the sensational eye-openers in the film, according to Belarusian democrats, is related to the fact that 11 years ago all those people disappeared on Lukashenka’s order.

Anatol Lyabedzka, leader of the United Civil Party of Belarus: “In a normal civilized country the prosecutor’s office should have opened a criminal case on the fact of the film itself”.

Foreign experts have their say in the film as well.

David Kramer, a Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund's Washington: “His (Lukashenka’s) priorities are to stay in power, control everything. He is constantly jiggling his tactics, in order to stay in power, to maintain control in his hands, in the government and in the country. One day he is a friend of Russia, and the other day he is not. He acts in the same way in relations with the West al well. Instead of telling the representatives of the European Union that he is ready to cooperate with them, he said that he is not going to dance to their pipe. He is undoubtedly clever, but a dictatorial streak and the desire to stay in power obscure his common sense”.

Alexander Rar: “His situation is very difficult indeed, so naturally he is considered an authoritarian leader in the West by some people, and a dictator by others. He will have to go through a very difficult presidential elections campaign in a year, and if there would be no alternative candidates again, mass media would be censored, and the opposition won’t have access to the TV, I think he would close all the possibilities to work with the West, the European Union for himself”.