“He never got any 80% in the last elections. If he got 80%, why did millions of Belarusians take to the streets? Why does he only use force and repression to keep his power?” – said the oppositionist.
Latushko asked if Shevchenko was ready to shake hands with a policeman who rapes women and men with a truncheon.
“Do you read the story of a mother who buried her 25-year-old son on August 12, who was beaten to death by the police and filmed it. Do you think that one of the policemen was put in jail? No. And the video of the mother of her son dying, And there are a lot of such examples, “the Belarusian oppositionist said.
He stressed that the Belarusian authorities had sanctioned the brutality of the security forces.
“Who are you shaking hands with, do you realize? Are you ready to sell everything for money? Human rights, freedom, conscience. What else can you sell, Mr. Deputy? For what money? For what interests? 35 thousand detained during this time, 358 people of political prisoners in prisons. 3 thousand criminal cases for political reasons. 4,646 people reported torture. This is the data of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. All these data are recorded. People were knocked cross on their backs with truncheons on their naked bodies. Gas into the cells – you understand, a window opens – and in [следственные изоляторы] in Zhodino, in Akrestsin street, gas is being supplied. The floor is poured with bleach to make people suffocate. Who are you shaking hands with? “- said Latushko.
Shevchenko, in response to this, advised the oppositionist to deal with his problems himself.
“I am now thinking about my citizens and my country. We do not need a thousand kilometers of an enemy country in the north. Do you understand? I am not in your Lithuanian-Polish interests. I know that they want to remove electricity and shove Lithuanian electricity, supply Lithuanian diesel here. The opposition has its own interests there. You are controlled from the outside, “the people’s deputy said.
Latushko said to this that Shevchenko – demagogue.
- Verkhovna Rada September 15, 2020 adopted a resolution on the events in Belarus, in which she stated that the presidential elections there were neither free nor fair, and condemned the use of excessive force and cruelty by the Belarusian security forces towards the protesters. Only for voted 228 deputies, including 151 deputies from the Servant of the People faction. Shevchenko was absent during the voting.
- April 20, 2021 in Minsk Shevchenko met with Lukashenka, whom Ukraine does not recognize as the president of Belarus. At the same time, the Ukrainian People’s Deputy stated that “36% of Ukrainians would like to see Lukashenko as their president”.
- The Servant of the People faction emphasized that the People’s Deputy was not delegated to this meeting by the party or official departments of Ukraine and upon his return to Ukraine Shevchenko will have to explain his actions.
- At a meeting of the faction on April 22, a decision was made vote by collecting signatures on the further participation of the deputy in the “Servant of the People” faction in the parliament. According to media reports, Shevchenko at the meeting asked to be expelled from the faction, and said that his political views do not coincide with the views of the political force.
- At the end of 2020, the head of the faction David Arakhamia said that Shevchenko, who was then also on a trip to Belarus, “every three days” asks to be excluded… “And I say:“ No, you will suffer until the very end. ”So I think that he goes further according to his strategy so that something happens after all,” Arahamia said.
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