he received a spoken order because if anyone had refused to go another would have taken his place and done just the same thing goes for the social good. 41 year old you're eager out ski has requested asylum in another european country he says the secret service in his home country by the roots is after him. just a new place that i left my family behind in 2008 after i was attacked by the bull and i realized that my wife and daughter were sacred to me and i my a bush living there so i got divorced and now i'm living alone you. must also the. yury no longer felt safe in his own country because he decided to speak out

and unburden his soul as he puts it now he's afraid his former comrades at the security agency are coming for him. because the poor in 4 months or so i got information that they wanted to arrest me and put me in prison. to live but. i don't want to do time make any statements or be accused of something i hadn't done and they don't want to keep the book as long and more woods these are stored being on them. yuri was involved in a crime that still haunts many people in eastern europe. on may 7th 1999 near the old fire lookout tower in downtown minsk former interior minister yuri's that got out of his car. was a leading figure in the opposition as usual he walks the few meters to his apartment building this re-enactment is based on the statements of key witnesses eureka. 2 men followed so he wouldn't be able to run 2 more men blocked his

path in front they were officers in plain clothes. one said come along police. at the time tensions were running high in minutes the former interior minister your reason turned against. people were taking to the streets in thousands hoping to stop the country's descent into dictatorship all right dear friends black ravens are circling over our country. today. the national congress meant to protect the constitution and oppose dictatorship. alexander lukashenko grew spello with an iron fist and the support of several elite units including the sober allegedly for him to combat organized crime but says he

witnessed eureka it has violently quassia the political opposition. of the russkie came to the unit at age 18 through his military service now he's making scathing accusations this is here in the summary i've noted who is involved because liquidation on may 7th and who took part and gone charles accommodation on september 16th the going should. all the people who knew about it and were involved with that are listed here. was this. all the orders were given orally. quit the media. there's no written evidence no video footage you know protocols. but there was nothing like that in.

the court in short. your reason was only the 1st victim in september 1999 victor greene char and businessman and a totally cross off ski were abducted near santa number 3 in minsk they were also members of the opposition and planning to remove the president from office the witness confirmed both were liquidated. is a picture shows the military base and. this is where we killed them this was a supply. there's the road. it's about 200 meters long and leaves about 20 meters into the forest this is that the myth of pity. here we killed a gun charge and. we're here about 50 meters away the grave was dug but in the new we took off their clothing and here. only their shoes were thrown

into the graves and buried with them. the. president look a shingle consolidated his power through 2 controversial referenda in the mid 1990 s. good in 1996 victor good in charge chaired the central election commission but he turned against the president hoping to prevent grab for more and more power $1000.00 bounty was paid for his murder as the key witness from the death squad tells it they were even given a reason why i had to disappear with a matter under. discussion about and char when they later told us yet evidence that had come to power illegitimately. at the vote in 1906 or $97.00 had been rigged and been charged had the proof. of justice. later they told us we had to eliminate him. because of this compromising material.

and present are the most prominent victims of looking regimes so far but they're certainly not the only ones every year of vigil is held in minsk for the victims many prospects for a democratic future disappeared along with the opposition's relieving lights. there's regret and a feeling of guilt if these people restore live bellerose would be a different place today. western germany yuri's the cairo family lives in exile here his wife 2 daughters and grandchildren he's never seen. yellin as that is the eldest daughter

she works as a sales clerk she's the only one of the family to speak openly about their fate she came to germany a year after her father's disappearance this is the 1st elaine as a cairo has heard about the key witness his statement and the details of her father's death. of course it's hard to hear all this and see the grave sites not to mention to hear all about how it happened you'd have to have nerves of steel for that. but do the statements check out the council of europe in strasburg could pass a 1st judgement on that. christos as an andre got to learn here the key witnesses statement polgar readers is a criminal defense lawyer from cyprus he investigated the politicians disappearances for the council 15 years ago got to learn is working on the cases today the council of europe tracks human rights abuses and keeps an especially close eye on belarus. the ability we have today to run and have been seeing

investigation that iris seems very small that's a problem it's impossible for these abductions. to have taken place without the concept to put it mildly of. your fish and when i say very high your fishes. my mind goes to the president. maybe he knew maybe he didn't i can't say for sure either way but i mean. as serious as the allegation is it can hardly touch alexander lukashenko as president was not welcome in the west for years that changed in november 2019 when

austrian president alexander found a bell and received the dictator in vienna but the recent accusations that look ordered the liquidation of his adversaries may well strain any reproach me with the west. a great deal about the death squads activities remains unknown even after your statements he claims to have simply passed on the. the commander a colonel from the interior ministry did the shooting. has something to say to the victim's family. i'd like to express my sincere regret that i participated in the murder. i apologize to you. because i can point out the grave sites on the mount because. everything else depends on you and our brother a c. and justice system.

these words of remorse may come as a shock to some family members. on the hook to kill can i accept. their lives. anybody i thought they'd chosen people for the liquidation who didn't have any families in bellary use. so they could eliminate them afterwards as well. most of us lifting of the gloomy out surprised that a witness has turned up who speaks openly about it. up close. it took elaine as a person time to find words for the man who had abetted the murder of her father. if a new on. view would serve so it's not about him. it's about the whole system behind him and he said what he says he can't be blamed for anything i'm not but you

know people like him are dependent on the system because they're forced to carry out these bloody crimes. even if i were to say something to him i couldn't say it to the thousands of others who acted together with him recently mr borg. be abducted men haven't been forgotten elsewhere in europe. in. the netherlands human rights activists from amnesty international have planted trees to commemorate them and an hour long vigil is held every year in the memorial grove in leipzig the witnesses' statements are producing results the state prosecutor and men reopened the 20 year old case an investigation is underway.

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