The white-red-white flag was ceremonially raised near the Lithuanian Seimas in Vilnius today. This ceremony was part of honoring the 108th anniversary of the proclamation of the Belarusian Democratic Republic.
The event was attended by:
- Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya;
- Juozas Olekas, Speaker of the Seimas of Lithuania;
- Michał Kamiński, Deputy Marshal of the Senate of Poland;
- members of the Seimas,
- representatives of the Belarusian diaspora.
The ceremony began with a moment of silence in memory of those who gave their lives for a free Belarus.
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya: “Today, near the Seimas of Lithuania, we raise the white-red-white flag — a symbol of our freedom and resilience.
This flag reminds us that there is another Belarus, one that is non-Soviet, non-Russian. That Belarusians are not the same as the regime. It unites Belarusians: those in exile and those at home.
Last week, it flew in hundreds of cities around the world where Belarusians live. In Belarus today, this is unimaginable. People are punished with years in prison for this flag, yet I know that many secretly keep it at home.
And the moment will come when we raise it over our cities, and it will return to our streets”.
