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Protest Rally in Minsk

Thousands of Minsk residents took to the streets to protest reprisals against Belarusians and Ukrainians under Polish rule. The government of the BSSR assured the demonstrators that it would demand that Warsaw respect the Treaty of Riga.

Protest Rally in Minsk

ROSTA reports that on the evening of 14 May a crowd many thousands strong of workers, office employees and pupils of secondary and higher schools held a demonstration and protest rally in Minsk against the acts of violence against Belarusians and Ukrainians in Poland. Members of the government of the Belarusian Socialist Soviet Republic assured the demonstrators that the Soviet government would take every measure to make Poland fulfil the terms of the Peace Treaty of Riga, securing for national minorities their national life.

The demonstration took place on the very anniversary of the start of the first political trial against Belarusians, the "trial of the 45 Belarusians in Białystok."

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