Act for Democracy in Belarus!

Act for democracy in Belarus now!

Belarus remains as the last European dictatorship, where dictator Lukaszenka continuous his outrageous rule. The last news on the youth front concerns the RADA (the Belarusian Youth Council). The organisation is risking to be shut down since they are accused to deal with politics and opposing the Belarusian state. It can all be considered as an further escalation of political action from the Belarusian state against the civil society before the elections on the 19th of March.

Supervision of the elections

With the help and support of SILBA, "Support Initiative for Liberty and Democracy in the Baltic Area", is there an opportunity for you and your comrades to participate in the supervision of the elections. You can take part in the actions for democracy in Belarus!

Pour les camarades du MJS intéressés, écrivez à estelle.goeger@mjsf'rance.org qui recencera les demandes et les transmettra à ECOSY, qui coordonne l'action.

Dear international friends and colleagues,
Belarus will have Presidential Election Sunday March 19th.
We are hereby announcing our large scale Exit Polling Mission to Belarus, to take place at 24 polling stations all over Belarus on Election day March 19th.
We will send a total of 100 observers into Belarus, Staff, Polling Station Manager, Exitpollers, VIPs and Journalists to join the local observers meeting you.
We are currently looking for some 30-40 Exit Pollers from as many different European countries as possible. You are therefore invited to come, just as we ask you to spread the invitation to
people who you consider potential observers.
We are covering all expenses during your stay in Kiev, Vilnius and Belarus. However we do not cover the expense for the transportation from your own country to either Kiev or Vilnius.
If you coincidentally have good connections to a foundation or other potential donors, who would liketo co-sponsor the Exit Polling Mission, let us know. More money will increase the number of observers we can take. If you can pay for yourself or for others, we are more than interested in facilitating your trip. The more the better. we do not have structural limitations,
another 5-10-50-100 observers can easily be integrated.
Important however is to note that all our observers will go as FAB observers, not as representatives for this or that organisation, running their own show and agenda. Observers are welcome afterwards to report that they as members of their organisation took part in the FAB mission, but during the mission, they work for us, and are given instructions and orders from us.
Observers from different organisations will be spread out in Belarus according to nationality, not
according to political belief or European umbrella organisations. We would like to gather observers from different organisations and political beliefs from the same European region
at the same polling station. Returning one liberal and one social democrat who have shared the same experience and afterwards speaking to the press together, makes a stronger impression to the population, that that you were there together with political colleagues from other countries. "At home we fight, but in Belarus we were cooperating!"
We are looking forward to facilitate this large
scale All European Cross Political Election Observation Mission

See you all in Kiev, Vilnius and Minsk

Jakob Knudsen, Head
of Mission
SILBA
http://www.silba.dk/