“Justice has been served. The whole international community must understand this,” Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya told DW in an exclusive interview late on Tuesday. “Of course, some say that sports and politics are two different things. But when ice is bloody, it’s not about sports any longer,” she added. Tsikhanouskaya was referring to the violent crackdown on demonstrators in Belarus that has been ongoing ever since Lukashenko claimed a landslide victory in the disputed presidential election last August. Fearing for her safety, Tsikhanouskaya, an opposition candidate in that election, subsequently fled to Lithuania, from where she spoke to DW. After months of lobbying against the plan for Belarus to co-host this year’s World Championships Tsikhanouskaya and the rest of the country’s opposition and human rights organizations had achieved their common goal on Monday evening, when the International Ice Hockey Federation announced that it was moving Minsk’s portion of the tournament. Clearer victory than hoped for Tsikhanouskaya sees the reason given for the IIHF’s decision, “safety and security issues,” as an even clearer victory than they had hoped for. “The IIHF said the decision to move the championship from Belarus had been made due to safety issues,” she said. “We expected that it would… Read full this story
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