Thousands protest in Belarus amid continued crackdown

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Thousands of protesters in Belarus swarmed the streets of the capital to demand the resignation of the country’s longtime president have been met by police using stun grenades and firing warning shots in the air from what authorities said were “non-lethal weapons.” Crowds of people headed toward a wooded area on the outskirts of Minsk where over 200,000 people were executed by Soviet secret police. Demonstrators carried banners reading, “The peo