Prosecutor General’s Office of Belarus will send a request for international legal assistance in the case with respect to 22 living SESS leads to Latvia. About this on Thursday, June 24, the Prosecutor General Andrei Swede reported, transfers BelTA.
“We continue to actively investigate this case. Today I will introduce information about the atrocities committed by Latvian legions of the SS. These are punitive structures, which in the period 1941-1944 made numerous atrocities here, the most brutal violence was learned from the civilian population,” said Swede
According to him, about 400 Latvian SESS residents staying around the world have been installed. “The instruction on the provision of legal assistance is sent to Latvia in relation to 22 living SESSERS,” said Prosecutor.
Earlier it was reported that the prosecutor’s office of Belarus checks information on the involvement of the former President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus to the Collaboration Battalion “Army Defense of the Fatherland”, which conducted ethnic cleansing in the territory of the USSR in 1944.
In April, Belarus opened a criminal case about the genocide of the republic in the years of the Great Patriotic War.