Representative of Ministry of Defense does not believe that people buried near Homel were killed by PCIA
There are no reasons to believe that the Soviet regime was responsible for mass graves near Homel.
The announcement was made by the head of the department of commemoration of war victims of the armed forces of Belarus colonel Vіctar Shumskі. He thinks that Soviet cases found near the graves cannot testify to the fact that it was PCIA that killed those people.
“Everyone knows that Germans were often using captured weapons”, - notes Shumski. According to him, the local authorities have time to clear it up.
Let us remind you that the 52nd search battalion of the Ministry of Defence started excavations 2 kilometres to the south-east of Homel. Remains of about 30 people shot in the back of their heads were found there.
It was officially informed that the people had been killed by fascists. But local inhabitants say that people buried in Shchakatouski Forest were killed by the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
According to a historian Ihar Kuznyatsou, those graves were discovered in 1998. The Office of Public Prosecutor conducted an investigation the results of which are unknown.
The regional affiliate of the United Civil Party suggested that the Regional Council should create a special commission to investigate the reasons for mass graves in the forest not far from the regional centre.
BelaPAN
The announcement was made by the head of the department of commemoration of war victims of the armed forces of Belarus colonel Vіctar Shumskі. He thinks that Soviet cases found near the graves cannot testify to the fact that it was PCIA that killed those people.
“Everyone knows that Germans were often using captured weapons”, - notes Shumski. According to him, the local authorities have time to clear it up.
Let us remind you that the 52nd search battalion of the Ministry of Defence started excavations 2 kilometres to the south-east of Homel. Remains of about 30 people shot in the back of their heads were found there.
It was officially informed that the people had been killed by fascists. But local inhabitants say that people buried in Shchakatouski Forest were killed by the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
According to a historian Ihar Kuznyatsou, those graves were discovered in 1998. The Office of Public Prosecutor conducted an investigation the results of which are unknown.
The regional affiliate of the United Civil Party suggested that the Regional Council should create a special commission to investigate the reasons for mass graves in the forest not far from the regional centre.
BelaPAN
