Police question opposition veterans about bomb attack
Police in
the Homyel region have questioned senior members of opposition parties as part
of a probe into a bomb attack that wounded about 50 people at an Independence
Day concert in Minsk
In Mazyr,
police interrogated Uladzimir Zhohla, 71, a Nazi death camp survivor, a member of the
opposition Belarusian Party of Communists (BPC), took a sample of his saliva
and photographed him with a certain number in his hands. Zhohla said that
humiliation he felt was reminiscent of the death camp.
Police
took saliva samples from senior BPC members Yury Bokaw and Yauhen Brusnitsyn in
Mazyr. In Rechytsa, police visited about ten senior members of opposition
parties, including Barys Salanets, 85, a World War II veteran.
“Charter 97”
