Oleg Alkaev, commandant van het het huis van bewaring in Minsk in de periode 1996 – 2001, tevens schrijver van het onthullende boek “Executiecommando” is terug geweest in Minsk voor het doen van onderzoek naar de vier verdwijningen in 1999-2000. Hij zegt dat er een videotape van de executie van Zakharenko bestaat. De videotape is hem aangeboden voor $250.000, maar die heeft hij niet.
Bron: Charter97
Voormalig minister van Binnenlandse Zaken, Yuri Sivakov antwoordde op een vraag van een journalist:
“Perhaps, any reasonable person, who has never met me personally but only heard about Sivakou, associated my name with the disappeared politicians. Well… I am responsible for that. It was, is and will be my fault,” he said.
Sivakov wordt door velen verantwoordelijk gehouden voor de verdwijning van Zakharenko, Gonchar, Krasovsky en Zavadsky. Hij staat op de zwarte lijst van de Europese Unie.
Bron: Charter 97
On Saturday 10 November the Swedish human rights organization Östgruppen will hold an action Teddy bear landing force – 2.
Teddy bears demanding the observation of human rights will go to Belarus. These teddies will enter Belarus absolutely legally – in parcels. The addressees are Belarusian officials and the politicians from the EU’s black list, the human rights center Viasna reports.
When in Summer 800 teddy bears travelled to Belarus, Lukashenka was furious and reproached them for illegally crossing the countries border. They were detained ad taking to police stations. That is why we are going to send teddies in parcels, but again with the demands of observation of human rights, especially the rights for freedom of assembly and association, directly to Lukashenka and his friends, – Martin Uggla, the chairman of the Östgruppen says. – In Sweden the summer action caused quite a lot of criticism, while in Belarus it was welcomed by many activists. With our action we want to express our support to the people of Belarus working for democratization of their country.
The action will be held in Stockholm city center on 10 November. It starts at 12.00. The participants will take teddy bears with them and the organizers will provide them with the addresses of the recipients in Belarus.