Catholic metropolitan bishop in Belarus proposes roundtable - is this effective tool for rigged elections?

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Everyone knows what is happening now in Belarus - after Lukashenko rigged the elections. State is unleashing the violence against the peaceful demonstrators. Yet Catholic metropolitan bishop in Belarus is calling for https://www.ewtnireland.com/catholi...r-end-to-violence-after-belarus-election-2-2/
  • end of violence
  • nation-wide roundtable
My question is - is this the effective attitude?
  • currently it is very clear who unleashed violence and who should stop it - both sides are not in similar position, so - why to put them in similar position in the official statement of the Church?
  • is the roundtable even possible? E.g. there are many political prisoners in the Belarus, can you imagine that Lukashenko may release those prisoners (at least temporary) and bring them into one of the stately palaces to do roundtable with them and others citizens of Belarus? What a roundtable it would be!
I understand the Catholic clergy in Belarus - many would be happy not to take sides (look how churches are restored for tourist attraction in Belarus and what is the attitude of the Lukashenko regime towards “liberal Western values”) or even to take irrational side. But if that is the case - why not to say explicitly - that the clergy is not willing/will not take sides and let the lay citizens to make the decisions alone based on their wisdom, conscience and reason? Why clergy feels/is pressed that they should anything at all?

BBC live reporting about events in Belarus:


This Sunday there is Freedom Mach in Minsk
 
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I have friends in Belarus. After the brutal mockery of the security forces and the disappearance of people, after the deaths of some protesters, Lukashenko must leave.
Spiritual leaders should be with the people.
In the national liberation, in the democratic revolutionary spirit, there is greatness that makes history, , transforms the spirit of the waking up nation, and those spiritual leaders who only call for non-resistance and expect self-made manna from heaven evoke neither admiration nor respect.
To become like their neighbors, Poland and the Baltic countries, Belarusians will have to go a long and thorny road, but they started this road, its baptizing, the same as had Ukrainians before.
 
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The Ukrainian youth, like the Belorussian dreamed of European integration, but transforming into something much higher.
Majestic images of god-like creators of the ideals of freedom appeared.

Here it is no longer selfish interests about bread and comfort, but, on the contrary, the understanding that - spirit, freedom, truth, and honor are above all these.

The same thing is born in Belarus.
Of course, the interdenominational church should be in solidarity on the side of the people at this time
 
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I reminded the Belorussian music band song (very popular in Ukraine, during the revolution of dignity this song became one of the anthems) about the warriors of light, warriors of good, who fight for the truth until the morning


And this Belorussian music band song , which personifies a free truth-seeking person who fights for freedom, and does not want to be a cattle

 
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