Lukashenko backs Belarus crackdown after poll win
MINSK (Reuters) – At least seven election candidates and hundreds of opposition demonstrators were being held on Monday after police cracked down on a protest against the re-election of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. A riot policeman chases an opposition protester during a rally denouncing the results of presidential elections in central Minsk December 19, 2010. (REUTERS/Gleb Garanich) Lukashenko, who immediately came under fire from international election monitors for flawed vote counting and police heavy-handedness, accused demonstrators of banditry. “There will be no revolution or criminality in Belarus,” he said, adding that security forces had stood firm against “barbarism and…
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