\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe cases relating abductions and assassinations of the opposition leaders and a journalist are continued to be investigated, the term of investigation has been extended for 2 months, but after these 10 years we do not have concrete results,\u201d the human rights activist said. \u201cDisappearance of Yury Zakharanka<\/strong>, a former Interior Minister, a person who had secret information about many problems of Belarus, haven\u2019t encouraged the authorities to investigate this case thoroughly. The initiation of the criminal case itself was up in the air for a long time, and only after disappearances of Viktar Hanchar<\/strong> and Anatol Krasouski<\/strong> the criminal case was initiated at last. Naturally, the initial pieces of evidence were lost. In this way the authorities confirmed the primary lead about which the world community is speaking now: implication of the top officials of Belarus in these abductions. It is the only thing which can explain investigation and judicial authorities\u2019 failure to act\u201d.<\/p>\n Harry Pahanyajla states that from the legal point of view, the cases of high-profile disappearances in Belarus have been disclosed. \u201cThe persons, who are suspects in these crimes, have been detected. If it wasn\u2019t so, we would receive refute of the politically motivated versions of the disappearances long ago,\u201d the lawyer said.<\/p>\n As noted by the human rights activist, many international institutions are alarmed by the \u201cpolitically motivated disappearances, and probably extrajudicial executions in Belarus\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cBut Belarusian authorities do not contribute to independent investigation at the territory of our country,\u201d the human rights activist states. \u201cBesides, they ban from entry European politicians, who are interested in the fate of the kidnapped. Thus, the PSCE delegate Christos Pourgourides<\/strong> was denied entry to Belarus\u201d.<\/p>\n Time has come to hold Lukashenka accountable for political assassinations<\/strong><\/p>\n The wife of the former Vice Speaker of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus, Zinaida Hanchar, states that for today the investigation of the case on Viktar Hanchar\u2019s abduction is in fact stopped.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are extremely worried that these crimes could be pinned on absolutely innocent people,\u201d she says. \u201cIn some police departments pictures of Hanchar and Krasouski have appeared already, and questioning about the red BMW, a car which traces were found at the site, has started. Certainly, it is a mocking investigation, and it looks ridiculous. Many people do not remember what was happening yesterday. And 10 years have passed in this case, and it is impossible to remember a red BMW\u201d.<\/p>\n The relatives of the disappeared remind that once the former head of the Chief directorate of the criminal police Mikalai Lapatsik <\/strong>(Lopatik) wrote a report to the former head of the Interior Ministry Uladzimir Navumau<\/strong>. He wrote there to whom and when the former Secretary of the Security Council Viktar Sheiman<\/strong> ordered to exterminate Yury Zakharanka, Viktar Hancha<\/strong>r and Anatol Krasouski. <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAfter the report of Lapatsik, high-ranking officials who were mentioned in the report, were to be interrogated,\u201d Zinaida Hanchar says. \u201cBut our demands to let us read at least with the interim results of investigation, were futile. Last time investigator Varauka <\/strong>denied any contacts and meetings completely. It comes to a complete idiocy. A document summoning my husband to the police department to be fingerprinted in the case of the blast on July 4 in Minsk, has been received twice. For many years he is invited to take part in elections, though I warned that he went missing 10 years ago\u201d.<\/p>\n In an interview to Russian journalists published on June 10 in a newspaper \u201cZavtra\u201d, Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/strong> stated that the abducted opposition leaders had been murdered. However, not on his order, but allegedly \u201cfor the reason of business\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have prepared an address to the Prosecutor General Ryhor Vasilevich, for him to be familiarized with the case and give an account to the society about what has been done over the 10 years of investigation,\u201d Zinaida Hanchar said. \u201cWe have sent another address to presidents of Russia, Germany, France. We want them to demand Lukashenka to give an account in these cases, as for all these years he is saying that the cases of the abducted are under his special control. And it has been confirmed. His statement that the traces of the abductions are leading to Germany, say that Lukashenka should know more than our law-enforcing agencies. So the time has come to ask him\u201d.<\/p>\n If there is no person, then there is no problem<\/strong><\/p>\n The kidnapping of Dzmitry Zavadski is considered solved crime officially. Officers of the special interior ministry unit \u201cAlmaz\u201d Valery Ihnatovich <\/strong>and Maxim Malik <\/strong>(they have been sentenced to life sentences), a former Interior Ministry Academy student Alyaksei Huz<\/strong> (sentenced to 25 years of imprisonment), and Syarhei Savushkin<\/strong>, a person with three prior convictions (sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment) were found perpetrators in the case.<\/p>\n All the verdicts were passed in a trial behind the closed doors. None of the facts confirming implication of the convicted in the abduction of Zavadski were presented to the public. None of them pleaded guilty. The body of the disappeared journalist hasn\u2019t been found.<\/p>\n The mother of the abducted journalist, Volha Zavadskaya, <\/strong>does not believe that real culprits of her son\u2019s abduction were placed behind the bars.<\/p>\n \u201cThe people have been convicted, they haven\u2019t admitted their guilt, and no work is being done,\u201d she said. \u201cAll our attempts to receive protocols of investigative activities were futile for all these years. If there is no person, then there is no problem. So all efforts were used to condemn people, and the authorities stopped activities. It is not proved by the court whether they are guilty or not. There is an impression that the authorities are not interested for these cases to be detected at all. I think in terror what could happen; and that everything could be stopped after the period of the statute of limitations. That\u2019s the main thing I fear\u201d.<\/p>\n As said by the leader of the United Civil Party Anatol Lyabedzka, <\/strong>the Belarusian authorities would try to close the cases of the abducted opposition leaders in the near future.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople in Belarus can forgive many things: economic problems, total lawlessness, but they would never forgive political murders to anyone,\u201d the UCP leader states. \u201cIn fact no issues sensitive for the regime are left in the relations of the official Minsk and the world community. One problem is left, which cannot be taken off from the agenda by Brussels: organising abductions and possibly murders of well-known people in Belarus. In this connection we have information that in the near future Belarusian authorities would try to find \u201cscapegoats\u201d. They may even find \u201cactual perpetrators of the crime\u201d. They should close this question. They should close it with little problems, so that the people who organised and were giving ordered would not find themselves in the dock. Lukashenka wants to become white, clean and fluffy by the presidential campaign\u201d.<\/p>\n As it was reported on August 14, journalists of NTV, a Russian TV channel were deported from Belarus. Aleksey Malkov <\/strong>and Yury Babenko<\/strong>, members of an NTV film crew which was shooting a film about the disappeared politicians, were detained on August 14 in the hotel of the International Education Center (IBB) where they had stayed. On August 15 at night, the film crew was taken to a Minsk airport and made to leave Belarus. The detained journalists were accused of acting without accreditation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus.<\/p>\n In an interview to www.charter97.org<\/strong> website the wife of the former Vice Speaker of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus, Zinaida Hanchar, called it \u201ca strange incident\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cNTV journalist called me and asked for a meeting,\u201d she recalls. \u201cI and Volha Zavadskaya came to a meeting with them. We told about the issues worrying us: about the problems of investigation, about reluctance of investigators to cooperate with us. I can say that journalists were thoroughly enlightened upon the subject. The fact of expulsion of Russian journalists seems awful to me. I do not have a good knowledge of accreditation procedure, but the fact that journalists of a \u201cunion state\u201d are deported, seem strange\u201d.<\/p>\n As we have informed, the requirement to disclose the truth about disappearance of the leaders of Belarusian opposition is contained in the resolution of the UN Commission on Human Rights, the PACE and the OSCE.<\/p>\n A number of Belarusian high-ranking officials, in particular minister of internal affaires Uladzimir Navumau<\/strong>, head of the president\u2019s administration Viktar Sheiman<\/strong>, former minister of internal affaires Yury Sivakou<\/strong>, and former commander of special task squad Dzmitry Paulichenka<\/strong> are banned from entry into the EU countries and the US, because they are suspected of involvement in kidnapping of the oppositionists.<\/p>\n Bron: www.charter97.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ter gelegenheid van de 10e verjaardag van de ontvoering van Viktor Gonchar, Anatoly Krasovsky, Yuri Zakhareno en Dmitry Zavadsky is op 17 augustus een persconferentie gehouden op het kantoor van de BPF (Belarusian Popular Front). Mensenrechtenactivisten en familieleden van de verdwenen mannen onderstrepen dat er na 10 jaar onderzoek nog steeds geen voortgang is en … Lees verder “Zinaida Gonchar: “Het is tijd om Loekasjenko verantwoordelijk te stellen voor de politieke moorden””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nieuws-belarus","category-nieuws-verdwenen-mannen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.vierbomen.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090817_portret_t.jpg\")
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