White Maidan activists have set themselves a year and a half to overthrow Lukashenko
Belarusian political fugitives in Ukraine need help to “sit out” in political emigration for a year and a half before they can return to Belarus.
Maidan activist Tatyana Martynova, who fled Belarus, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
She noted that Ukrainian border guards allowed refugees from Belarus through, despite the fact that restrictive measures in connection with the coronavirus pandemic remain in place.
“With all the quarantine measures that applied to foreigners entering Ukraine, Belarusians were allowed through. Moreover, the Belarusians were allowed in even without any detention protocols and so on, because they don’t give us protocols. Very often we are simply thrown out into the street and given nothing.
You see, based on the fact that a person has actually been on his Facebook feed for many months - he writes and expresses his civic position, especially since various media outlets have written about many cases.
There is not a single case where one of the people who fled here from the regime was not allowed through,” she said.
However, refugees have various kinds of problems; they need to make it easier for them to stay in another country legally. Tatyana Martynova offered the Ukrainian state the help of activists who, in her opinion, should for some reason “rewrite and record” the fugitives.
“Perhaps some part of the responsibility for the fact that people coming here will be somewhere, roughly speaking, rewritten, recorded, who needs what, who is more important, could be taken upon ourselves by our civil initiative, if we have enough strength for this,” said the radical.
The activists promise not to stay in Ukraine for more than a year and a half - during this period they will “cope” with the situation and will be able to return to Belarus, which, in their opinion, will already be freed from the current government.
“Perhaps your authorities would agree to some temporary conditions for the next year. That is, there is no need to change the legislation for us, we understand that it was written not in one day, not in one year, but some kind of amendment for Belarusians, at least for a year, for a year and a half... I think we will figure it out further.
We are not among the people who want to move somewhere in transit or get political asylum, we all want to go home. But somehow we need to sit it out and not stretch our legs, you know? This is very important,” says Martynova.
“Can we handle it in a year and a half, Seryozha?” she asked another activist-defector.
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