Belarus fires generals after teddy bears drop from the sky

[Ought Six]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/worl...m-the-sky.html

Two generals were fired and two people were arrested after an air bombardment that left the president of Belarus fuming over how its borders could be so easily overrun -- by teddy bears.

Hundreds of the toys descended on Belarus last month, dropped by Swedes tooling over the capital, Minsk, in a small plane. The plush invaders were outfitted with parachutes and bore activist slogans such as “Free Speech Now.” The human pilots, working for a Swedish ad agency, wore teddy bear masks.

[Leaper]

Great Psyact! Win!

[SiEMpre_Leal]

More heads are going to roll for sure on this one......

[socom6]

Now thats a coup!

[armored_diplomacy]

This will be funny untill somebody wipes them out the sky.
I think they´re pushing it to much

[BrownBär]

This will be funny untill somebody wipes them out the sky.
I think they´re pushing it to much

I agree on that. Pretty dangerous but also brave.

[Holycrusader]

I thought this Teddy Bear bombing of Belarus was false/fabricated news?

[Leaper]

No it happened. What makes you think it didn't?

[OstiasMoscas]

No it happened. What makes you think it didn't?

In that last thread (the one created when it first happened) a lot of people were claiming it wasn't true, and that it was just a PR stunt from the Swedes claiming that they've dropped teddies over Belarus. So I'm guessing that's why he's thinking it's BS. Don't think those claims were backed up by a source in the original thread though.

[Sniffit]

Belarus has now declared the swedish ambassador persona non grata. All acording to the sweidhs FMs blog.

[Leaper]

In that last thread (the one created when it first happened) a lot of people were claiming it wasn't true, and that it was just a PR stunt from the Swedes claiming that they've dropped teddies over Belarus. So I'm guessing that's why he's thinking it's BS. Don't think those claims were backed up by a source in the original thread though.

Oh ok, I see. Thank you for the information

[Leaper]

Belarus has now declared the swedish ambassador persona non grata. All acording to the sweidhs FMs blog.

It wasn't the Swedish government who did this, it was a Swedish private organization

[TG211]

Belarus has now declared the swedish ambassador persona non grata. All acording to the sweidhs FMs blog.

Belarus is Best Belarus.

Keeping the isolation since 1991.

[Sniffit]

Ok, read through the whole post now and it seems like he was expelled for holding meetings with the opposition aswell as letting Pro-democracy NGOs holding meetings at the embassy. Apperantly the regime had tried to force Sweden to exchange the embassador earlier this summer but Sweden refused, stating that meetings with the opposition is normal practice.

As a result for this Sweden has revoked the visa for the newly appointed ambassador from Belarus and declared two diplomats at the Belarusian embassy in Stockholm Persona non-grata.

[Sniffit]

It wasn't the Swedish government who did this, it was a Swedish private organization

I know. I was the one who posted the news about it. But Lukashenko is a dictator and he doesn't need to have any real reasons for doing as he does.

There is a reason why he isn't welcome to visit the olympics.