To preserve historical memory in Belarus, you should perpetuate the memory of the victims of the genocide during the Great Patriotic War. With such a proposal, the Attorney General Andrei Swede appealed to Prime Minister Roman Golzchenko, reported on the site of the department.
According to him, during the German occupation, the Nazis killed about two million civilians. Women, children and old people were often subjected to torture, and then shot or buried alive. The Swede stressed that in the course of the investigation, over 100 places were revealed, where the Belarusians were massively destroyed.
“in the documents reflects cases of bullying and torture before the destruction, burning still living people and other manifestations of cruelty of the fascists and their accomplices,” said the press release. The removed remains of the dead are planned to be reburied.
In June, the Prosecutor General’s Office announced the intention to send a request to Latvia to provide international legal assistance in the case with respect to 22 SES-Living. According to the Swedes, they are associated with punitive structures, which in the period 1941-1944 made numerous atrocities in the country and the most brutal violence was learned from the civilian population.
On April 9, the Prosecutor General’s Office Belarus opened a criminal case on the genocide of the republic in the years of the Great Patriotic War. The Swede clarified that the information to be obtained during the case will allow international organizations to recognize the country victim from the genocide of the Third Reich and stop attempts to “devalue historical facts.”