Within the next man would have done it to the response. We are talking about a conspiracy. Why dont you like about human rights and i will surely here you have the right just there over there she said. But the thought with them back when you was admitted to hospital 10 months ago he could only walk in paying. His right hip had been smashed to pieces in a car accident in bella ruse ury fled to a german speaking. Region in the alps which shall remain unnamed his application for asylum is still pending then 41 years old yuri received a hip replacement at a hospital in his host country. He has been scarred for life not only by the accident which he thinks was an attempt on his life but also by an event that turned him into a criminal and destroyed his family. And moved to the shores like my family in 2008 hours after the attempt on my life yep when will i realize that my wife and daughter was sacred to me and so i decided to get divorced but the more yet i was rules since then i have lived a life also it so the. Buring no longer felt safe in his home country because he wanted to speak out get the burden off his chest as he explains he alleges that his former comrades from the mint Security Unit were pursuing him. The bird for more i had information that they were either arrest me or imprisonment is. The lib i didnt want to sit in jail or make a confession. Or be accused of something i hadnt done in the us its in the book. Being on them. Eerie was involved in a crime that has shaken people in Eastern Europe to this day the old fire station in the heart of minsk this is where the former minister of the interior yuris eco ranko parked his car on the evening of may 7th 1999. Zachary and co was a key figure of the opposition as always he walked the last few meters to his home. The reconstruction of the crime is based on the account of the key witness eureka. 2 men follow saccharin co so he is unable to escape. 2 more men block his path ahead they are soldiers dressed in plain clothes they belong to the special unit. One of the men says they are policeman and if he needs to go with them. 20 years ago the political situation in minsk was dramatic the former minister of the interior decorating co had changed sides and was now the head of the opposition tens of thousands of protesters were on the streets trying to prevent their country from becoming a dictatorship. With 2 controversial referenda bella ruse president lukashenko made a bid to gain total power and exclude parliament. The peoples representatives in Parliament Went on a Hunger Strike in vain. But it was the. Since then look how has been ruling almost singlehandedly deloris is seen as the last dictatorship in europe a police state in its purest form. Previously as minister of the interior zakhar enco had tried to bring the country more and more towards the west on a visit to bonn he signed an agreement on Police Cooperation with germany. It looks like on is that yes the us goes both is about rules. Thank you this move led to a clash with the president his rule became increasingly authoritarian the opposition rallied and military officers joined forces with them with the aim of ousting look. All around me here very. Dear friends sure there was a lack ravens are circling above our land. All joy thats why the National Congress came together yesterday to protect the constitution against the dictatorship. Back then our witness youre a garage ski was 18 years old during his military service he joined a special unit and was soon integrated into a newly founded Intervention Force called saba where he spent 5 years finally receiving a promotion he keeps copies of Important Documents in the refugee home where hes staying and tells us that the originals are in a safe place. This is my membership card for the special units veterans association. People are served in the fighting units of the ministry of internal affairs get one of these i was Deputy Commander in the 1st group this is the card you get if you were in the sober. Bella ruse has several special units made up of hardened soldiers who are loyal to their president here they show what theyre capable of in the mens football stadium images from 20 years ago. Sawbones mission was to tackle smugglers and the mafia but our witness says that wasnt their sole task sauber was also deployed to forcibly eliminate the opposition. This is. In this summary i made a note of who was involved in the elimination of saccharin co on may the 7th and who was involved in eliminating gunshot on september the 16th who series a list of all the people who knew about it and who were involved with this. Says who all the orders were given verbal ie the media all of them there is no written evidence because of the over dia recordings no minutes reports or anything like that of. All of. The corn sure it was probably on behalf of president Lucas Shanker or lib i dont know i cant say. Lins not anymore who is. Zachary and co does not put up a fight. In the car he tells his kidnappers please do it painlessly the car leaves minsk heading north. Bellerose 1st became an independent state after the collapse of the soviet union since 1991 minsk has been the capital of a nation with around 10000000 citizens. A statue of lenin leader of the revolution and founder of the soviet union stands in front of the seat of government even today a very soviet style is much in evidence a corner building on independence straight houses the ministry of internal affairs once the work place of you is occurring next door the headquarters of the Intelligence Service the k. G. B. Back then as today a field center of power all a vulture it has suffered a great deal of persecution and suppression by the state the civil rights activist and lawyer represents the secular and her family in minsk if there were more here we are in germany at the home of soccer and those wives this is his eldest daughter thats me in the middle and the writers are correct his wife they live in germany as political refugees. There is an atmosphere of fear in our country if you express your opinions and you can end up in jail or be forced into corrective therapy that soviet system still exists in our country today. And businessmen. And members of the opposition to the president the witness tells us. Thought this is the military base invaded. By. This this is where we killed them was this sort of the dance of the road after about 200 meters it goes about 20 meters into the forest this is really going to. This is where we kill concha and christophe schemes to blow. The borderland here about 50 meters away as grave was done because this. Was this would spoil the british will dress them and burn their clothing here only their shoes were tossed into the grave and buried with. Is a. Really after time victor gone child was the head of the Central Election Commission he stood up against president look who wanted more power gone child was trying to stop him brute force was deployed against gone child and his staff during the referendum 34. 00 of the poor Fashion Police started k. G. B. Agents and special units blocked their offices. Preventing concho from entering the washer put you on their property the witness from the death squad tells us that there was a reward of a 1000. 00 for murdering gunshot. If you can all kind of blown up really niggas lost a matter on it and they were given a reason for getting rid of gone china. In the store with noble we were told later theyd gone charge had evidence showing that lucas shank had come to power illegitimately and that the vote in 1996 was rigged. To storm the grandchild was in possession of this evidence. He. Told us afterwards that we had eliminated him because of this compromising material. We were. Gone child zachary enco and cross off with the most prominent victims of the look. But they were not the only ones. Every year the vigil in minsk commemorates the victims. With the disappearance of the 3 politicians the countrys chances of Democratic Development also vanished years risk there is remorse there is a sense of guilt if these people were still alive things would be different in belarus today was. Worth a lot of things would be better today and most importantly there would be no fear we would have a say in things of saccharine corner gonchar was still alive. Only vote shows us a figure of an angel. Its a present from the eldest daughter of the minister of the interior who disappeared only visited her in germany. She said this angel is for you ellen as a committed her self its a guardian angel. On the evening of may 7th 1909. I had nobody to help protect him. The death squad drove him to a military Training Ground around 20 minutes outside of minsk. The pistol that was used to assassinate him was a special model built for close range use the official weapon for executions in belarus. In northern germany this is way your family lives in exile his widow 2 daughters and grandchildren who never saw they grandfather. Is the eldest daughter she works as a saleswoman and is the only member of her family to publicly discuss their plight. She and her family came to germany a year after her father disappeared and reluctantly applied for asylum. But now we serve up to the usually when we arrived in germany we already had tickets for our return flight we came here to report in a democratic country on the situation in our home country. That was all we were planning to do use on us not subsiding able but then we got a call that the k. G. B. Had started criminal investigations accusing us of vilifying the honor and dignity of the gallerys president and the state because its actually the staff so. Today is the 1st time that elena 2nd ranko has heard about the witness and his statement regarding the details of her fathers death. At 1st she is skeptical and struggles with her emotions. Its a fact that yes i hope the facts are true and they can be tracked of course it is difficult to hear about this and to see the burial sites. Let alone to hear how it happened. You need nerves of steel and yes we need. Are the facts correct they could be initial answers to this question in strasbourg christiane and i got to listen to the witness statement paul great is a defense lawyer from cyprus 15 years ago he investigated the disappearance of the bellerose opposition politicians to the council of europe. Is still following the cases today the council of europe scrutinizes human rights and all the more closely in the case of bella reduce their ability we have today to run the vince again investigation that iris seems very small. Thats a problem well the file as far as we are concerned never close the file would close the day when a probe an investigation is conducted and that there are findings as to up hold up until these disappear people its impossible for these abductions and murders to have taken place without the consent to put it mildly of very very high officials and when i say very high officials. My mind goes to the president. Was north of la he knew about it maybe he didnt i cant be sure but i think he did not. Accusations that barely reach Alexander Lukashenko for many years the president of bella ruse was not welcome in the west that changed in nov 29th cheney. The austrian president received the dictator from minsk in vienna it was look at those 1st visit to an e. U. Country in many years. At the press conference the question of the opposition politicians who disappeared was raised. Did not answer but he admitted that he rules his country in an authoritarian mannah. Puts it i also want the citizens of our country to be absolutely sovereign and independent. That we are only a selfsufficient an independent and our citizens are only as free as our situation allows us and that situation is very complicated this muscle actually. Up to murdering zecher and the killers drug but to me. Gorecki says he had no choice he had to take part in the assassination. Of the will dealing with there was new girl in the line might of question that lead down inside of you but when a young man receives an order either your part of the system or you are not. Yeah so i knew i had to follow this through the bros of the country if i had failed i would have ended up in the same hole in the ground as. The high income. For the council of europe investigators 2nd rank those murder was clearly the work of a death squad. d a death walk. By publishing a book. For peace for justice. The officer allegedly responsible has already been named in an official document from minsk which was passed to investigators from the bellerose Public Prosecutors Office at that school. House. On behalf of the state thats why they use the pistol from or that will use for the visual executions. Just to give you done appearance that these were all fish alex ignitions. And thats the kind of message does yours open and say this is not official but it is really us with this so someone to put the pressure to put the terror on the orders. After the murder the assassins bring the body back to minsk. The car leaves the city mostly white and heads for a cemetery. The Group Commander colonel disappears with the corpse in the direction of the crematorium there is no trace of the body after that. The witness statements civilian criminal Dimitri Pappy a chink or a highly decorated officer in the Belarus Ministry of internal affairs did the man who deployed the sober special unit as a death squad also murdered the opposition politicians. We soldiers were just carrying out orders we only arrested the man. We didnt pull the trigger we didnt carry out the liquidation order. That he was the one who pulled the trigger our witness is not obliged to incriminate himself therefore some doubts still remain as to what actually happened. The families of those left behind continue to demand justice for the events of 20 years ago gorecki has a message for them but most of all for the relatives of the dead. Here. I express my deepest condolences. I was involved in these murders and i offer my apologies. I can show you where they are buried on the matter you know what i mean there. Everything else depends on you and the judicial system in belarus a lot of this is the. Words of remorse which need to be processed. On the hook to tell ken i accepted. Exactly how big it. He was and what i thought they had chosen people with no family or relatives in bella ruse to carry out the assassinations so that they could also be liquidated afterwards. If being shot at at the going out. Of home surprise that a witness has turned up who was willing to talk about it openly. Talk about it to a close. Eleanor zachary and co finds her response later directed at the man who was an accessory to the murder of her father. At the new one if you will its its just its not about him its about the whole system behind him like you just said yes we cannot be blamed personally. And that but you knew she died of the power yes people like him are dependent on the system and are forced to commit its gruesome crimes. Even if i said this to him i cant say it to the thousands of others who served with him mr boyd. The political system in bellerose systematically violates human rights the flags of 47 Member States can be seen outside the council of europe building in strasbourg the bella ruths flag is not among them in order to become a member bella reuss would 1st have to face up to its past otherwise it will remain an outsider in europe. You cant consider a society as a wealthy and i would say a consolidated Society Without the ability that the capacity to the possibility to know whats happened we cant condemn that that but 1st we must know math clearly no one is responsible and in false disappearance is a way to i the truth i think that all democracies of europe. We do not. Accept. Without solving the important issue of that is appearances and many other problems as one of the axis is not only these problems. These i can describe it as an important. The tip of the iceberg we should everybody sees but deep in the water there is a b. Guy spent civil rights and liberties are violated in belarus its the only country in europe with the Death Penalty is still in forced the media is firmly in the hands of the state there is hope for change mainly among young people and human rights activists who can still remember the events of 20 years ago when the opposition was brutally eliminated. Gaiters i believe that the disappearance of the politicians and della reese will be resolved its no longer just a matter for the government history has taught us that. In latin america similar cases were investigated 30 years later and are still being investigated. And is in europe of. Europe has not forgotten all the opposition politicians who disappeared. Human rights activists from Amnesty International have planted trees for them in the dutch city of and hovan. One see it as an vigil in the growth of remembrance. When they got a letter out in the ocean. We are wounded by our past in this war and will never heal. It will always open up again in our memories in our dreams. Not being able to say goodbye to someone not being able to bury him is the worst punishment there is. Because. The past is a lifelong burden. It is only when the murders have been resolved that this burden may become lifetime for those left behind as well as the bellerose. Was saved by the socalled enemy hes a palestinian from the gaza strip hospital in israel provided crucial medical treatment. Going home is not a realistic option since hes been living for years in that hospital with his grandfathers. Moving across. 15 minutes long d. W. The global corona crisis you can find more Information Online in fact e. W. Dot com and on t. W. Social media channels. 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