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30 Sep 2013, 4:25 pm

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Increasingly bizarre Belarusian dictator now bans schoolchildren from clapping

Harvard University recently awarded the dictator of Belarus an alternative Nobel prize for mad dictatorial behaviour. That was before he banned school kids from clapping as a "dissident" activity

Fresh from receiving a Harvard University "idiocy" award, as the beleaguered Belarusian opposition billed it, for extraordinary behaviour, the dictator of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has gone one better, this time in a decree against schoolchildren.

Earlier in September, Harvard gave Lukashenko the so called Ig Nobel Prize for prosecuting a one-armed man for clapping disrespectfully against the regime.

Dissidents and student groups opposed to the regime have taken to using ostensibly legal means to express their dissatisfaction so as to avoid jail. This has included Facebook organised group clapping exercises as well as eating ice cream in public places. Both types of activities have attracted violent reprisals from the secret police, still known in the former Soviet republic as the KGB.

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30 Sep 2013, 6:05 pm

I don't get the ice cream.

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30 Sep 2013, 6:16 pm

vickygleitz wrote:

I don't get the ice cream.

It's a way of showing protest but not ostentatiously being defiant.

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