Government's commission to probe "new Kurapaty" case in Homel
The probe is in progress into the case of the so called Homel's Kurapaty, the discovered grave site where Stalin's secret police allegedly executed the local residents in the 1930s-1940s. But Natallia Aksyonava, the chair of the state commission on the research and reburial of the remains, believes that scholars should not join the commission yet.
The story broke when in June 2007 military search and rescue specialists from the Ministry of Defense found the remains of at least 70 people executed by shots into the head in the woods near the city of Homel.
Local residents said that those were the victims of the Soviet secret security services. The victims also could include the nationals of the neighboring Ukraine. The defense officials and the government suggested that the executed could be the victims of the Nazi during the World War II.
An independent pressure group, the pubic committee which investigates the crimes of the Stalinism, has proposed that scholars and historians join the effort of the government's commission, reports Belapan.
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The story broke when in June 2007 military search and rescue specialists from the Ministry of Defense found the remains of at least 70 people executed by shots into the head in the woods near the city of Homel.
Local residents said that those were the victims of the Soviet secret security services. The victims also could include the nationals of the neighboring Ukraine. The defense officials and the government suggested that the executed could be the victims of the Nazi during the World War II.
An independent pressure group, the pubic committee which investigates the crimes of the Stalinism, has proposed that scholars and historians join the effort of the government's commission, reports Belapan.
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