Alexandra, Biélorussie
My dream is to help talented young people in Belarus, who don't even have a clue about the huge opportunities for learning abroad, scholarships offered at universities in Europe and around the world.
I just wanted to back up my story with my photos of the demonstrations in Belarus in 2020 and a short account of the situation in Belarus. I have also given a presentation at my university, École Normale Supérieure, on the situation in Belarus and written articles on the subject.
I would never have thought that the country in which I was born and the country in which millions of people were killed during the Second World War could support war with Ukraine. Moreover, for any message or comment against the war on social networks, you can get at least 15 days of arrest in inhuman conditions.
There is no war in my country, but that seems to be the case. Since August 2020, there has been a war against its own people, who spoke out against A.Lukashenko's dictatorial regime and falsified elections.
Every day for three years now, arrests of people who have expressed their dissent have continued here. As a historian, I spend a lot of time on the subject of purges and punitive psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I could never have imagined that the prisons of our time in Belarus would be like those of Stalin's time, and that the detention and torture of people in these prisons would resemble the worst and most terrible moments of the Soviet Union.
From September 2022, I can't enter my country because any photo I've taken and any photo in which my face has been detected means I could be stopped at the Belarusian border and never return to France.