And the next man would have done it to the is the good stuff. We are talking about a conspiracy. What dont you like about human rights im going to rosalee here you have the right just there in the streets. With the thought a little dark 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 the city of the shores why i left my family in 2008 hours after the attempt on my life you know when the i realized that my wife and daughter was sacred to me and so i decided to get divorced but more yet as since then i have lived also 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. For months i had information that they were either arrest me or imprisonment is. The label i didnt want to sit in jail or make a confession. Or be accused of something i hadnt done there was a kid the book was a store doing 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. Parked his car on the evening of may 7th 1999. Zachary unco 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 ski 2 men follow saccharine ko so he is unable to escape. 2 more men block his path ahead they are soldiers dressed in plain clothes they belong to the sauber special unit. One of the men says they are policeman and that he needs to go with them. 20 years ago the political situation in minsk was dramatic the former minister of the interior. 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. And previously as minister of the interior zakhar enco had tried to bring the country more and more towards the west on a visit to born he signed an agreement on Police Cooperation with germany. It was not going as of yet those who are not as about rules. Thank you this move led to a clash with the president whose rule became increasingly authoritarian the opposition rallied and military officers joined forces with them with the aim of ousting location co. All around me here very. Dear friends sure lack ravens are circling above our land. Thats why the National Congress came together yesterday to protect the constitution against the dictatorship. Back then our witness yuri gerad 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 the. 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 bruce has several special units made up of hardened soldiers who were loyal to their president here they show what theyre capable of in the midst of football stadium images from 20 years ago. Saw his 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 here in this summary i made a note of who was involved in the elimination of zachary enco on may the 7th and who was involved in eliminating gunshot on september 16th who series a list of all the people who knew about it and who were involved is this. Who all the orders were given verbal with the meter just all of them there is no written evidence because of the over here recordings no minutes reports or anything like that its. All of. The corn sure it was probably on behalf of president. Or. Lib i dont know i cant say. Lins not anymore is. Zachary 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 991 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 year 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 zachary and her family in minsk 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. What was this is the military base invaded. By. This this is where we killed them was this the. Dance of the road after about 200 meters it goes about 20 meters into the forest this. This is where we killed gone shot and christophe skis to. The border and here about 50 meters away a grave was done because this. Was this what we underestimate their clothing here only their shoes were tossed into the grave and buried with them. Is a. After time a victim gone child was the head of the Central Election Commission he stood up against president who wanted more power gone child was trying to stop him brute force was deployed against going child and his staff during the referendum 34. 00 couple of starship it started k. G. B. Agents and special units to their offices. Prevention concha from entering the washroom put you on their property the witness from the death squad tells us that there was a reward of a 1000. 00 for murdering going sharp. Enough you can approach a lot of religious north america on it and they were given a reason for getting rid of gone child. With noble we were told later on charge had evidence showing that lucas shank a come to power illegitimately and that the vote in 1996 was rigged. But there was a storm but a gun child was in possession of this evidence. You know and you will believe the car that they told us afterwards that we had eliminated him because of this compromising material that we were. Going char zakhar vento and cross off ski with the most prominent victims of the looks schenker regime 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 yes or there is remorse there is a sense of guilt if these people were still alive things would be different in belarus today was. A lot of things would be better today and most importantly there would be no fear we would have a say in things of soccer ranko and gone char was still alive. Only vote shows us a figure of an angel. Its a present from elena the eldest daughter of the minister of the interior who disappeared visited her in germany. She said this angeles for you ellen as a committed her self its a guardian angel. On the evening of may 7th 1999. 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 it was a special model built for close range use the official weapon for executions in balad. In northern germany this is where your family lives in exile his widow 2 daughters and grandchildren who never saw the 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. Can only sit up for the whole year and that 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 im not absolutely 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 belarus president and the state because its actually the that. Today is the 1st time that elena 2nd rank 0 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 just i hope the facts are true and they can be checked. Of course it is difficult to hear about this and to see the burial sites. Let alone to hear how it happened i think that. You need nerves of steel. Are the facts correct they could be initial answers to this question in strasbourg crystals and i got to listen to the witness statement great is a defense lawyer from cyprus 15 years ago he investigated the disappearance of the bellerose opposition politicians that 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 vinci investigation but iris since very small. Thats a problem while the. Never close the file would close the day when a probe an investigation is conducted and there are findings as to up hold up until these does appear people its impossible for these abductions and murders to have taken place without the concept to put it mildly of very very high your fish. And when i say very high your fish else my mind goes to the president. Who was most of them are he knew about it maybe he didnt know but i cant be sure but i think he did know. Accusations that barely reach Alexander Lukashenko for many years the president of bella reese 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 and 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 independent and our citizens are only as free as our situation allows and that situation is very complicated this muscle actually. Up to murdering zecher into the killers drug to minsk. Gorecki says he had no choice he had to take part in the assassination. Of the will doing the most but there was no girl in long mind to question that lead down inside. But when a young man receives an order to your part of the system or you are not. Adorable so i knew i had to follow this through. Bros of the gods if i had the final guy i would have ended up in the same hole in the ground as i correct. Was the word prosectors the heard him call for the council of europe investigate his 2nd rank os murder was clearly the work of a death squad. d a death schwabe. By publish a book. For peace or just. 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 it an appearance that these wear will teach alex ignitions. And thats a kind of message. To say you know this is not of fisher but it is really us with this side 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 motorway and heads for a cemetery. The Group Commander colonel Publishing Co disappears with the corpse in the direction of the crime atory him there is no trace of the body after that. The witness statement civilian criminal Dimitri Pappy a chink or a highly decorated officer in the Belarus Ministry of internal affairs did the man who deployed to solve a special unit as a death squad also murdered the opposition politicians. News we soldiers were just carrying out orders we only arrested the man. We didnt pull the trigger we didnt carry out the liquidation order or did that he was the one who pulled the trigger. A 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. By express my deepest condolences. I was involved in these murders and i offer my apologies and i can show you where they are buried on the matter you know what i mean you know Everything Else depends on you and the judicial system in belarus a lot of this is. Words of remorse which need to be processed. On the hook to chill and i accepted. Exactly how big it almost sure 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 most of us if being daughter to the going out. Im surprised that a witness has turned up who was willing to talk about it openly. Talk about it to a close. Elena 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 and you just said yes we cannot be blamed personally. And that but you know she died for the power yes people like him are dependent on this system and theyre 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 bush. 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 opening the capacity to the possibility to know whats happened we cant condemn that that but 1st we must know must clearly know what is responsible. In forth his appearance is a way to i actually i think they 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 this problem. This i can describe it as an important. The tip of the iceberg we should everybody sees but theyve been the water the reserve be deiced 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. I believe that the disappearance of the politicians and deloris 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 bella reuss is in europe and. 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 will in the growth of remembrances. When they got a letter. Writing 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. The past is a lifelong burden. It is only when the murders have been resolved that this burden may become life for those left behind as well as the valorous. Kickoff. Ghost town atmosphere means listless clay shaw from the. Looks of guns and on mentalist flights the cessna. Nonstop excitement of the final match to. Be cut. 30 minutes on d w. The global corona crisis you can find more Information Online at e. W. Dot com and on t. W. Social media channels. This is d w news live from berlin and President Trump warns that he will send in federal troops to end the violence that has overshadowed protests in american cities. 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