Belarus: demonstrator killed in thousands at funeral

(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 15 - Thousands of people attended the funeral of demonstrator Alexander Taraikovsky in Minsk, killed in clashes with the police, a funeral that turned into a peaceful protest.
    The protesters - writes the BBC - laid flowers at the subway station where Taraikosky died last Monday, lit candles, waved Belarusian flags, sang and sang and sang to ask for the strongman Alexander Lukashenko to leave. Some demonstrators have exhibited giant faces of some of the protesters injured during the repressed protests of recent days. (HANDLE).