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08/07/2008

Belarus police search homes and interrogate activists after concert bombing in Minsk

The Associated Press

MINSK, Belarus: Opposition members and human rights activists in Belarus say police have interrogated them and searched their homes and offices after a bombing in the capital last week.

On Friday, a bomb wounded about 50 people in central Minsk during a concert commemorating Belarus' Independence Day.

Rights activist Oleg Gulak said Tuesday that Belarus' authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko is using the bombing as a pretext to "purge" opposition groups ahead of a parliamentary election in September.

Lukashenko, in office since 1994, has harshly suppressed dissent and independent news media in this former Soviet state.

Source:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/08/news/Belarus-Opposition.php

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