Belarus Prosecutor General’s Office set to be after ‘still living Nazi criminals’ in Poland, Lithuania

Belarusian investigators got information about hundreds of previously unknown places of slaughtering the country’s population during the Second World War, Prosecutor General Andrey Shved told TV station Belarus 1.

According to him, Belarusians send letters containing data about the developments of those days and appear at the proper bodies’ departments to give their testimony. Tough work on processing the information received, detecting mass execution sites, estimating the total number of victims are still on the investigators’ plate, Shved stressed.

“We also have the information about the still living Nazi criminals who were on the lists and who took part in the activities of punitive battalions. First of all I am talking about the Lithuanian SS battalions and the Home Army battalions [notably, Home Army fought against Nazis – Belsat]. Now we are preparing the relevant materials and a request on legal assistance to be sent to these states so that appropriate law enforcement agencies could launch the procedural actions in the criminal genocide case in respect of these persons (they are still alive, we know their places of residence),” state-run news agency BelTA quotes him.

The Prosecutor General’s Office is set to present ‘sufficient evidence’ to the international tribunal so that the procedure of official recognition of the genocide of the Belarusian people’ could be launched, Andrey Shved added.

As reported earlier, the Prosecutor General’s Office initiated a criminal case against Andżelika Borys, Chairperson of the Union of Poles in Belarus (UPB), and other members of the organisation in late March. They are charged under Art. 130-3 of the Criminal Code (‘deliberate actions aimed at inciting national and religious hatred according to national, religious, language, other social affiliation, as well as through justifying Nazism, which were committed by a group of persons’). The authorities believe the Polish activists’ recently holding a number of mass events to be relevant to ‘the rehabilitation of Nazism and justifying the genocide of the Belarusian people’.

belsat.eu, following BelTA