BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

13/03/2006

Concert drums up support for democracy in Belarus

Oscar-winning Polish film director Andrzej Wajda rallied the crowd Sunday at a Warsaw, Poland, rock concert, part of an event organized by Polish and Ukrainian artists in support of Belarus' opposition a week ahead of a presidential election there.

"You are doing the right thing," Wajda, 80, told some 5,000 youths at the concert where Polish and Ukrainian bands sang songs of Ukraine's Orange Revolution and from Poland's Solidarity freedom movement of the 1980s.

In the March 19 election, Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is seeking a third consecutive term but is challenged by three other candidates, including Alexander Milinkevich's main pro-democratic opposition.

Poland, which shed communism in 1989 and is now a European Union member, supports Belarus' pro-democracy forces.

Source:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635191290,00.html

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