The next man would have done it to the disarmament. We are talking about a conspiracy. What dont you like about human rights and better rosalee here you have the right just there over there she said. With that all good and dark when europe 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 you put it all to the shores why i left my family in 2008 hours after the attempt on my life yep when i realized that my wife and daughter were sacred to me and so i decided to get divorced by the way yet i was rules since then i have lived a life of those and so them. During 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 Minute Security unit were pursuing him. And opens the door for more 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 in the us its in the book. And these are stored in 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 occur ranko parked his car on the evening of may 7th 1999. Zachary and co was a key figure of the opposition as always he was the last few metres to his home. The reconstruction of the crime is based on the account of the key witness eureka rap scheme 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 sabah 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. Since then 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 ranko had tried to bring the country more and more towards the west on a visit to bone he signed an agreement on Police Cooperation with germany. What was my concern yes there was. This about. 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 look. 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 your ego rob 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 advance 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. 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 saccharin co on may the 7th and who was involved in eliminating concha on september 16th. Series a list of all the people who knew about it and who were involved moses. Says 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 of. All of. The corn sure it was probably on behalf of president. Or lib i dont know i cant say. Lins not anymore. Zachary and co does not put up a fight. In the car he tells his kidnappers please do it painlessly the car lease 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 an independent straight house is 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 8 of all chick 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 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. In september 1909. And businessmen. Were kidnapped. And members of the opposition to the president the witness tells us that both of them. What 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 score this is where we killed concha and christophe skis to blog the borderland here about 50 meters away a grave was down this field was this would spoil it but if we dont dress them and burn their clothing here only their shoes were tossed into the grave and buried with them. Is a corporal. After time victor 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 reformulated most of the orthodox repeat started k. G. B. Agents and special units blocked their offices. Preventing the gunshot from entering the washing machine 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 just lost a matter on it and they were given a reason for getting rid of gone char. In the bone store with noble we were told later on charge had evidence showing that lucas shank had come to power illegitimately and that the vote in 1996 was rigged. But in the storm that gone child was in possession of this evidence. He. Told us afterwards that we had eliminated him because of this compromising material that we were. Going char zakhar enco and present with the most prominent victims of the Location Code 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 years is good when 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 one here we would have a say in things of saccharine corner gonchar was still alive. Only vote check shows us a figure of an angel. Its a present from the eldest daughter of the minister of the interior who disappeared only a visitor in germany. She said this angel is for you elena zucker nccam editor self its a guardian angel. On the evening of may 7th 1909 your exact correct coa had nobody to help or 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 where your family lives in exile his widow 2 daughters and grandchildren who never saw they grandfather. Is the eldest 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. Because of that 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 saddam. Today is the 1st time that eleanors record enco 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 at the taj. Let alone to hear how it happened. You need nerves of steel. Are the facts correct they could be initial answers to this question in strasbourg christiane 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 bella ruse opposition politicians for 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 the ability we have today to run the vince again investigation that iris seems very small. Thats a problem. We are concerned never close if i would close the day when a probate investigation is conducted and there are findings as to up hold up and police 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 officials and when i say very high your fish else my mind goes to the president. Who was most of the night he knew about it maybe he didnt know but i cant be sure but i think he did know the storms not. Accusations that barely reach Alexander Lukashenko for many years the president of bella russo 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 right used the christian code did not answer but he admitted that he rules his country in an authoritarian man i. Just push. Towards it i also want the citizens of our country to be absolutely sovereign and independent as we know that we are only a selfsufficient independent and our citizens are only as free as our situation allows us and that situation is very complicated its muscle actually. Up to murdering zachary the killers drug back to minsk. Gorecki says he had no choice he had to take part in the assassination. Or the were doing was because it was new girl in the limelight a question that would leave down inside there but when a young man receives an order. Of the system or you are not. Adorable so i knew i had to follow this through the use of the bruise of the gun if i had filed i would have ended up in the same hole in the ground. Was the court of prosecutors the hood income. For the council of europe investigators a 2nd rank owes murder was clearly the work of a death squad. d they walk. By publish a book. 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. Has. On behalf of the state thats why they use the pistol from war that will use for the executions. Just to give you dont appear that these were adults. And thats a kind of message. To say you know 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 and heads for symmetry. The group commander. Disappears with the corpse in the direction of the crime atory him there is no trace of the body after that. The witness statements severely incriminates dimitri pavlyuchenko a highly decorated officer in the Belarus Ministry of internal affairs as did the man who deployed to soap a special unit as a death squad to also murder the opposition politicians. We soldiers were just carrying out orders we only arrested the man when. We didnt pull the trigger we didnt carry out the liquidation order. That he was the one who pulled the trigger. Eyewitness 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 but in the free screenings by express my deepest condolences. I was involved in these matters and i offer my apologies and i can show you where they are buried on the matter you know the haranguing that got Everything Else depends on you and the judicial system in belarus a lot of this is similar to her and some. Words of remorse which need to be processed. On the hook to till then 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. Think of the. Im surprised that a witness has turned up who was willing to talk about it openly. About it to a close. Eleanors occurring 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. Im not but you knew she died the power yards you people like him are dependent on this system and theyre forced to commit its gruesome crimes. That even if i said this to him i cant say it to the thousands of others who served with him the reason mr bush. The political system in belarus systematically violates human rights the flags of 47 Member States can be seen outside the council of europe building in strasbourg the bella reuss flag is not among them in order to become a member bellerose would 1st have to face up to its past otherwise it will remain an outsider in europe you cant consider a society. Well feel 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 must clearly know what is responsible and in 4th disappearance is a way to i try i think that all democracies or europe. Will not. Accept. Without solving the important issue of that is appearances and many other problems as world of axis is not only these people. These i can describe it as an important. That people of the iceberg we should everybody sees but they be in the water they are easy to be the iceberg. Civil rights and liberties violated in belarus its the only country in europe with the Death Penalty is still in full list 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. As their forms 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 of. Europe has not forgotten bellerose 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 hours vigil in the growth of remembrance. When i get a letter writing in motion but i write 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. Of not being able to say goodbye to someone not being able to bury him is the worst punishment there is a national. The past is a lifelong burden. It is only when the murders have been resolved that this burden may become lighter for those left behind as well as for better or worse. Off. Ghost town atmosphere. Listless clay shaw from the. Looks of go undone mentalist 0. 05 to. Nonstop excitement to final match to. 30 minutes on d w. This is deja vu news live from berlin u. S. President trump warns he will send in federal troops to end the violence that has overshadowed the protests in American Cities if a city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents then i will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them. His address comes as the protests continue as those the violence the brother of the man whose death sparked