“Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in.” JFK, Berlin.<p>Obviously this situation in Belarus is a simple legal restriction and not a wall, but I’ve long thought that a sensible constitutional guarantee would be the right to leave the country at any time.
I am from Belarus and I've always been impressed by the story of the Berlin Wall. And it's my dream that our wall will fall too. It is impossible to take it anymore...
So here I was wondering, why there is not a single article about this in Russian info-sphere. Apparently these restrictions were in action for quite some time [0].<p>But here we are, making news out of this :)<p>[0] <a href="https://gpk.gov.by/covid-19/" rel="nofollow">https://gpk.gov.by/covid-19/</a>
seems like a desperation move. It's been a long while since I read "The Dictator's Handbook", but I'm guessing Lukashenko won't be free/alive too much longer?
Note that this has been happening since at least May 30th as reported by people working in Poland and Lithuania who had gone to visit their family in Belarus for the weekend.
It's much harder to enforce policy on those who leave, compared to enforcing policy on those who enter, is it not? If the reason for the policy was sincerely due to pandemic concerns, couldn't they have just stopped people from entering, regardless of nationality?