You could be forgiven for asking: set against the scale and violence of the retaliation by autocracies in North Africa and the Gulf, don’t we have worse things to worry about than the crimes of Alexander Lukashenko and his bully boys? It’s the wrong question. Better to ask: are we going to let this village tyrant enjoy a respite from scrutiny and accountability because, for the moment, our attention is engaged by larger, louder, more sensational and more photographable news elsewhere?
