Belarus: another win for non-violence?

Winning an election is now the only way of achieving political legitimacy almost anywhere in the world.

Belarus has been gripped by protests over allegations that President Alexander Lukashenko rigged the country's Aug. 9 election. Photograp by Maxim Shikunets, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

August 20, 2020

LONDON, U.K.—On Monday Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko went to the Minsk Tractor Works, the country’s biggest factory with almost 15,000 workers, and did his tough-guy act: “Until you kill me, there will be no other election.” The horny-handed sons of toil simply replied by chantin...

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