I Am Speechless

BELARUSIAN PROSECUTOR-GENERAL: HUNGER STRIKES SHOW LOW 'LEGAL AWARENESS.'

From RFE/RL: Belarusian Prosecutor-General Pyotr Miklashevich said that mass hunger strikes staged in 2006 were evidence of the protestors' low "legal awareness," Belapan reported on January 18. Miklashevich said that Belarus has a judicial and law-enforcement system that ensures "the accurate and rigorous enforcement of laws, edicts, decrees, and other law-enforcement regulations by all government officials and people." Miklashevich also said that public awareness should be raised on how to solve problems. "It [a hungerstrike] brings nothing but health problems," he added.

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