Poland warns Belarus leader: Change or risk coup

AJC ^ | Feb. 2, 2011 | MONIKA SCISLOWSKA

[fightinJAG]

WARSAW, Poland — Poland's foreign minister warned Belarus' autocratic president on Wednesday that he risks being overthrown by his own people if they decide to follow the example of protesters in Tunisia and Egypt.

"Soon a jet plane will have to be kept on standby in Minsk," Radek Sikorski said, referring to the capital of Belarus. "You are losing ... sooner or later you will have to flee your own country, your own people."

Sikorski spoke at international donors' conference in Warsaw where governments pledged millions in aid for the democratic opposition in Belarus, which faces censorship and the constant threat of arrest under President Alexander Lukashenko.

[fightinJAG]

Some background:

U.S. and Europe Move Against Belarus’s Leader

[Freddd]

U.S. and EU discussing removing Mubarak militarily....

NASA isn’t doing it’s job....

[Tailgunner Joe]

The mass murderer and war criminal Vladimir Putin should be banned from the United States as well.

[wolf78]

Imagine John McCain beaten to the ground, kicked in the head by government thugs and then left there seriously injured. And once he had been taken to the hospital, arrested, grabbed from the hospital bed and thrown in jail. Because that's the way they treat opposition candidates in Belarus.

Lukashenko is a pig and should be dealt with accordingly.