Belarusian Opposition Leader Seeks Tribunal to Probe Lukashenko

A Belarusian opposition leader has called for creation of an international tribunal to investigate war crimes allegedly committed by authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko.

The request was made Wednesday by Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Lukashenko’s most powerful challenger in the Belarusian president election last year. “We cannot allow dictators to write history,” Tsikhanouskaya said in remarks before the Czech Senate in Prague. Tsikhanouskaya, who now resides in Lithuania, called for the establishment of the tribunal “to investigate the crimes of the Lukashenko dictatorship in the past and in the period following the 2020 election.”