Posted on 03/10/2023 4:10:15 AM PST by Timber Rattler
Belarus’s authoritarian president has signed a bill introducing capital punishment for state officials and military personnel convicted of high treason.
The amendments to the country’s criminal code endorsed by President Alexander Lukashenko envisage death sentences for officials and service personnel who cause “irreparable damage” to Belarus’s national security through acts of treason.
Belarus is the only country in Europe that has not banned capital punishment, which has been applied to those convicted of murder or terrorism. Executions are carried out with a shot to the back of the head.
Lukashenko has ruled Belarus with an iron fist for nearly three decades, brutally suppressing dissent. Belarusian authorities unleashed a crackdown against demonstrators who protested against his re-election in an August 2020 vote that the opposition and the west denounced as rigged, detaining more than 35,000 and beating thousands.
On Monday, a Belarusian court sentenced Lukashenko’s main challenger in the election, exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, in absentia to 15 years in prison on charges including conspiring to overthrow the government. Last week, the country’s most prominent human rights advocate and 2022 Nobel peace prize laureate, Ales Bialiatski, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
The bill that Lukashenko, 68, signed on Thursday also introduced punishment for “propaganda of terrorism, discrediting the armed forces and paramilitary units and breaching the rules to protect state secrets”, mimicking the repressive legislation of Belarus’s main ally, Russia.
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“Belarus’s authoritarian president has signed a bill introducing capital punishment for state officials and military personnel convicted of high treason.”
Absolutely BACKWARDS country!!!
(give my regards to the Rosenbergs when you get a chance)
Remind me again who the Rosenbergs were spying for and to whom they gave away atomic secrets?
I believe the point being made is that capital punishment for high treason isn’t actually a bad thing in principle.
why, that would be Russia
the same country that the Russian shills always assure us is “no threat”
LOL
“Remind me again who the Rosenbergs were spying for and to whom they gave away atomic secrets?”
Hit a nerve their with your attempt to portray Belarus as barbaric for having something in the US Constitution (take a look, it’s really there).
As to the Rosensteins, they gave our secrets to a country that no longer exists.
Rewrite this article and substitute US for Russia and Saudi Arabia for Belarus.
Or any other number of US allies with treason death penalty.
Sensational enough?
“Sensational enough?”
Tell me about it. There are some articles that the operatives should just swipe-left on, because it makes them look REALLY SILLY!
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Russia, but is not used due to a moratorium and no death sentences or executions have occurred since 2 August 1996. Russia has a moratorium implicitly established by President Boris Yeltsin in 1996, and explicitly established by the Constitutional Court of Russia in 1999 and reaffirmed in 2009.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Russia
Feeling threatened by big bad Russia?
The USA continues to execute for capital crimes.
Not that it’s a bad thing,
Now, capital punishment in Russia consists of accidentally falling out of 17th Floor windows.
And Arkancide is just a coincidence
No, the point is that Lukashenko is preemptively trying to crush any internal dissent or resistance, especially in his military, to whatever he and Putin have cooked up for re-opening a northern front in Ukraine.
“No, the point is that Lukashenko is preemptively trying to crush any internal dissent or resistance”
Sorry, don’t remember him saying that.
Looks like Belarus will be executing the traitorous snakes in their midst.
Sounds like good policy.
The USA has done it regularly since the Founding.
It's OUR Deep State that attempts to play puppet master in other nations.
Georgia and Hungary are two of the freest and most conservative nations in Europe and working hard to undermine them using the same tactics the left has here -- NGOs, funding opposition media and infiltrating universies.
Yes, he said the quiet part out loud.
Why shouldn't Belarus execute some traitor working with our Deep State or Britain's.
What is laughable is that you think our government under Biden is any better than Belarus's.
If we had that policy in the USA, there would be no democratic politicians. (i.e. they’re all treasonous)
When was the last time that happened?
Or are you talking about YOUR country, Russia?
Larry Johnson, an ex-CIA analyst, writes “I no longer hold clearances and have not had access to the classified intelligence assessments. However, I have heard that the finished intelligence being supplied to U.S. policymakers continues to declare that Russia is on the ropes – and their economy is crumbling. Also, analysts insist that the Ukrainians are beating the Russians”.
Johnson responds that – lacking valid human sources – “western agencies are almost wholly dependent today on ‘liaison reporting’” (i.e., from ‘friendly’ foreign intelligence services), without doing ‘due diligence’ by cross-checking discrepancies with other reporting.
In practice, this largely means western reporting simply replicates Kiev’s PR line. But there does occur a huge problem when marrying Kiev’s output (as Johnson says) to UK reports – for ‘corroboration’.
The reality is UK reporting itself is also based on what Ukraine is saying. This is known as false collateral – i.e., when that which is used for corroboration and validation actually derives from the same single source. It becomes – deliberately – a propaganda multiplier.
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So, it’s ‘goodbye’ to traditional Intelligence! And ‘welcome’ to western Intelligence 101: Geo-Politics no longer revolves around a grasp on Reality. It is about the installation of ideological pseudo-realism – which is the universal installation of a singular groupthink, such that everyone lives passively by it, until it is far too late to change course.
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If that were the purpose (to acclimatise Russians to defeat and ultimate Balkanisation), Western propaganda has not only failed, but it has achieved the converse. Russians have coalesced closely together against an existential western threat – and are prepared to ‘go to the wall’, if necessary, in defeating it. (Let those implications sink in.)
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Another ‘own goal’: The West now faces the task of de-fusing the landmine of their own electorate’s conviction of a Ukraine ‘win’, and of Russian humiliation and decomposition. There will be anger and further distrust for the Élites in the West to follow. Existential risk ensues when people believe nothing the élites say.
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Neo-con claws tear at anyone gain-saying their ‘line’ – and think-tanks employ an army of ‘analysts’ to turn out ‘academic’ reports suggesting that Russia’s industry – to the extent it exists at all – is imploding. Since last March, western military and economic experts have been regularly-as-clockwork, predicting that Russia has run out of missiles, drones, tanks and artillery shells – and is expending its manpower throwing human-waves of untrained troops upon the Ukrainian siege lines.
The logic is plain, but again flawed. If a combined NATO struggles to supply artillery shells, Russia with the economy the size of a small EU state (logically) must be worse off. And if only we (the U.S.) threaten China hard enough against supplying Russia,then the latter will ultimately run out of munitions – and NATO supported Ukraine ‘will win’.
The logic then is that a war prolonged (until the money runs out) must deliver a Russia bereft of munitions, and NATO-supplied Ukraine ‘wins’.
This framing is entirely wrong because of conceptual differences: Russian history is one of Total War that is fought in a long, ‘all-out’, uncompromising engagement against an overwhelming peer force. But inherent to this idea, is its all-important grounding in the conviction that such wars are fought over the course of years, with their outcomes conditioned by the capacity to surge military production.
Conceptually, the U.S. shifted in the 1980s away from its post-war military-industrial paradigm, to off-shore manufacturing to Asia and to ‘just-in-time’ supply lines. Effectively, the U.S. (and the West) shifted in the opposite direction to ‘surge capacity’, whereas Russia did not: It kept alive the notion of sustainment which had contributed to saving Russia during the Great Patriotic War.
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