Liubou Sankevich from Babruisk has died. She publicly apologized for voting for Lukashenka in 1994
The woman's death became known from her social networks. She was buried on May 27.
Photo: Radio Svaboda
Liubou Sankevich became known back in 2003 when she held a hunger strike in protest against her dismissal from work. Much later, on June 22, 2017, Belarus saw her in an interview at a solidarity picket in Minsk, where she publicly apologized for voting for Alyaksandr Lukashenka in 1994, writes Radio Svaboda.
Upon returning to her hometown of Babruisk, the pensioner was detained by police at the train station and taken to the department to draw up reports. There, Ms. Sankevich felt unwell, called an ambulance, and was admitted to the hospital, from which she was later discharged.
Liubou Sankevich became disillusioned with Lukashenka because his words did not correspond to his actions. A professional accountant, she noticed discrepancies in figures and economic indicators, which she drew public attention to.
"If it weren't for the corruption Lukashenka has spread around himself, we would live like in Europe. He didn't return monetary deposits, and I have to buy out the apartment I received back in the USSR," she told "Svaboda" in 2017.
The woman retired in Babruisk, where she worked as an accountant at a tractor parts and aggregates plant. In 2003, she was dismissed from her job and began to sue, considering the dismissal decision illegal.
Sankevich said that the management fired her for trying to expose facts of property embezzlement and various abuses at the enterprise. She then announced a hunger strike, claiming her court case was falsified. She asserted that the Ministry of Justice, to which she complained, did not even request all the necessary documents from Babruisk to genuinely investigate the matter.
Liubou Sankevich's son was in the same class as the son of the former head of the Central Election Commission, Lidziya Yarmoshyna, but Yarmoshyna once refused her legal assistance.
Liubou Sankevich spoke about cases of bribery in her hometown; she was also politically active — she worked as an observer in elections, speaking about manipulations and falsification of results. She was a member of the "Civic Initiative against Lawlessness in Courts and Prosecutor's Offices" and organized pickets both in Babruisk and Minsk. She repeatedly ended up in court for this, where the authorities imposed fines on her.
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