Mother of abducted opposition politician Yury Zakharanka dies


Ulyana Zakharanka. phot by Raisa Mikhaylouskaya

Ulyana Zakharanka, mother of former Interior Minister and Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s strong rival Yury Zakharanka, died at the age of 94. Her son was kidnapped and allegedly killed in 1999.

“Today is a somber day for us all. Ulyana Ryhorauna is gone. She has not heard floorboards and has not seet her son Yura on the porch. Rest in peace,” opposition politician Anatol Lyabedzka said on Facebook on Monday.

Ulyana Zakharanka lived in the village of Vasilevichy (Homel region).

General Zakharanka who was 47 when he went missing tops the list of disappeared politicians in Belarus. After leaving the position of Interior Minister Mr Zakharanka joined the opposition. He had authority with servicemen and initiated establishing of the independent Union of Officers which could have stood up against the president.

Aleh Alkayeu, a former head of Minsk predetention centre No 1, carried out his private investigation of the Belarusian politicians’ enforced disappearance. Mr Alkayeu is sure that former Minister of Interior Yury Zakharanka was assassinated by order of Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s minions, and videorecordings of the execution do exist.

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