Andreas Dittes

There still are rumours and there are still demonstrations agains the regime in minsk and other cities. (Some photos here)

Now a video has been published that shows evidence of electoral fraud. You can see the election observers in a discussion with officials. They also put ballots together that might be from two different candidates. At the end the guy yells at another to immediately get away from the desk:

The video shows a discussion between election observers and local public officals. The video was produced with a small digicam by one of the election observers

Of course there are doubts if the video really proofs that the election was not democratic, but the video still shows that the election was not done as a democratic one is supposed to be:

The video was shot secretly by a student on March 19th, 2006 in a school building in Minsk (str. Artilleristov, 16 scool №74). My friend told me that students and soldiers have to elect in advance. I don’t have an accurate translation yet of what is being said in the video but my friend told me that one person at one point asks why there are ballots of candidate A stacked on top of the ballots of candidate B? Another person then yells at the others to get away from the tables. And that they should stop asking questions!

My friend told me that the official version is that Lukaschenko won with an overwhelming majority in those “pre-elections” among students and soldiers. He said that this is just a very bad joke. According to him you are a better off as a prisoner in Germany than being a soldier in Belarus. He added that neither soldiers nor students usually vote for Lukanschenko. He also told me that students had to vote in advance and have been asked to leave the city and drive to their parents. They were threatened that if they didn’t follow that order they would loose their student housing spot and thus probaly even their right to study. The threat supposedly had the goal to minimize the risk of student riots.

My friend is in direct contact with someone in the city of Minsk. His contact there told him today that he may be able to send more videos showing the election fraud. My friend and his contacts want to stay anonymous since otherwise they fear to get in danger. Well, actually they are already in danger!!! Please spread the video!!! We are still looking for an accurate translation of what is said in the video!

Via: Media-Ocean & Lautgeben & BoingBoing