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Organise or fight? Three years in exile, Belarus opposition divided about path

Faces of Belarusian political prisoners are painted on a graffiti in Warsaw, Poland, on 25th July, 2023.

Warsaw, PolandReuters Pavel Maryeuski, 33, was an activist committed to peaceful politics who had never held a weapon, when he fled his native Belarus after President Alexander Lukashenko’s crackdown on protests following an election three years ago. Last year, when Russia invaded Ukraine, he felt the call to battle, and joined a Belarus volunteer unit fighting in support of […]