Minsk using migrants to 'divert focus from domestic crackdown'

The Minsk regime is using its border crisis with the EU to detract attention away from the on-going crackdowns at home, says an exiled Belarusian youth leader.

Twenty-year old Margo Vorykhava chairs the Belarusian National Youth Council.

Exiled in Georgia to escape persecution, she said pro-democracy movements in Belarus are still fighting against the autocratic leadership of Alexander Lukashenko, who won a rigged election in August 2020.

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