{"id":75,"date":"2008-09-06T22:40:53","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T20:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2012-10-02T15:44:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T13:44:47","slug":"english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/?page_id=75","title":{"rendered":"4 trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Commemoration disappeared men of Belarus<br \/>\n<\/strong>Late in the evening of September 16th, 1999, businessman Anatoly Krasovsky and opposition leader Viktor Gonchar got disappeared while they were leaving a bathhouse in Minsk. That same night the death penalty execution pistol was borrowed. Since then the investigation of the case is being counteracted by the Belarusian government. But we do not forget Viktor Gonchar and Anatoly Krasovsky. As we will never forget Yuri Zakharenko (former Minister of Internal Affairs) and Dmitry Zavadsky (TV journalist) who disappeared on May 7th, 1999 and July 7th, 2000. What all four men shared, were their critics on the government of dictator Lukashenko.<\/p>\n<p>To commemorate these disappearances\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/?page_id=2\">September 16th, 2008<\/a> four oaks were planted in Eindhoven, twin-city of Minsk.The trees were planted by <strong>Mary Fiers<\/strong> (elderman Municipality Eindhoven), <strong>Iryna and Valeriya Krasovskaya<\/strong> (\u201cWe Remember\u201d Foundation), <strong>Dzmitry Markusheuski<\/strong> (Belarus Helsinki Committee) and <strong>Marijke Dusseljee<\/strong> (Amnesty International); <strong>Nicolai<\/strong> <strong>Kanakh<\/strong>, <strong>Oleg Podolinski<\/strong> (BKDP) and <strong>Berend Molz<\/strong> (FNV Bondgenoten); <strong>Joeri Oudshoorn<\/strong> (Mission To Minsk) and <strong>Leonoor Akkermans<\/strong> (\u201cSolid\u201d Foundation).<\/p>\n<p>Every year on September 16th, we commemorate the anniversary of the four disappearances between the four trees at the Paradijslaan in Eindhoven. See\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.nl\/maps?f=q&#038;source=s_q&#038;hl=nl&#038;geocode=&#038;abauth=506aed71ZT-VqND2OW6bsYW19iNfpL862mA&#038;authuser=0&#038;q=paradijslaan+66,+eindhoven+nederland&#038;aq=&#038;vps=5&#038;jsv=434a&#038;sll=51.434467,5.47839&#038;sspn=0.00406,0.007864&#038;vpsrc=0&#038;t=h&#038;num=10&#038;iwstate1=actions&#038;iwloc=A\" target=\"_blank\">map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Leo Mesman<\/em> wrote the poem which (in Dutch) is inscripted on the memorial.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4 trees for belarus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4 men<br \/>\nwho stood up against the one<br \/>\nthat took the people\u2019s freedom<br \/>\nand disappeared<\/p>\n<p>4 trees<br \/>\nplanted here as living signs<br \/>\nso that we won\u2019t forget a single day<br \/>\nto mourn for<\/p>\n<p>4 men<br \/>\nwho stood up against the one<br \/>\nthat took the people\u2019s freedom<br \/>\nand disappeared<\/p>\n<p>Leo Mesman<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2377\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/4bomen-91.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2377\" title=\"4bomen-91\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/4bomen-91-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"Iryna Krasovskaya (We Remember) and Mary Fiers (City of Eindhoven)\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iryna Krasovskaya (We Remember) and Mary Fiers (City of Eindhoven) plant first tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commemoration disappeared men of Belarus Late in the evening of September 16th, 1999, businessman Anatoly Krasovsky and opposition leader Viktor Gonchar got disappeared while they were leaving a bathhouse in Minsk. That same night the death penalty execution pistol was borrowed. Since then the investigation of the case is being counteracted by the Belarusian government. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/?page_id=75\" class=\"more-link\">Lees verder <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;4 trees&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-75","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2469,"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions\/2469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}