Belarus Personality Denounces Protests

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko says new protests against his order are an endeavor to sustain subversion in the one-time Soviet republic.

Speaking at a army march in Minsk, President Lukashenko mentioned their objective was to lower Belarus's sovereignty "to zero" and bring it "to its knees."

His debate came after weeks of rare protests.

Activists say an opponent group's page on a Russian amicable media site has been shut off to end serve protests.

Mr Lukashenko was addressing a considerable throng during sovereignty day celebrations imprinting the end of Nazi job in 1944.

He mentioned he noticed open protests as segment of a tract to oust him.

"(Somebody) is perplexing to duplicate a 'coloured revolution' unfolding here," he said, referring to objection movements in ex-Soviet republics such as Georgia and Ukraine in 2003-2004.

"We comprehend that the objective of these attacks is to levy doubt and turbulence, to wipe out open acceptance and in the end to put us on the knees and to bring all the achievements of the sovereignty down to zero. This is not going to happen."

Protests are rare in Belarus where the peremptory order of Mr Lukashenko has led to sanctions by Western governments.

Demonstrators had been urged to attend the celebrations and beginning clapping as shortly as Mr Lukashenko began his speech.

At smallest a person who began clapping was rapidly led divided by plain-clothes police, Reuters headlines group reported.

The opponent has hold a array of internet-organised marches well known as "Revolution by Social Networks", in that protesters do not bring signs but instead travel by the streets clapping in unison.

The group's principal page on a Russian amicable media site was shut off on Sunday, with activists adage it was a think over endeavor to suppress their efforts.

"The authorities are creation a huge bid to break the call of polite protests," wrote opponent website Charter 97.

Valentin Stefanovich, from rights group Vesna, mentioned the supervision had detained dozens of activists whilst others had been called in by the safety forces and warned not to protest.

Those arrested enclosed Stanislav Shushkevich, the initial post-Soviet personality of Belarus and a burly opponent supporter, but he was after that released.

"These are evidently unlawful activities undertaken to head off the objection activities called for on the internet," Mr Shushkevich told AFP headlines agency.

Last month, about 1,000 people collected in Minsk to take segment in a "silent protest" over the mercantile predicament organized around amicable networking sites.

In December 2010, authorities burst down on protests against purported vote-rigging in the broad election.

International monitors mentioned the contest, in that Mr Lukashenko strictly won 80% of the vote, was deeply flawed.