received a spoken order because if anyone had refused another would have taken his place and done just the same thing goes for the social business for. 41 year old eureka ski has requested asylum in another european country he says the secret service in his home country by the rules is after him. just a new procedure i left my family behind in 2008 after i was attacked the burden that 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. and i still see it so the. yuri 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. to do in 4 months or so i got information that they wanted to arrest me and put me in prison. the lid but. i didn't want to time your make any statements or be accused of something i had done neither was a kid the book has long emotional woods and is a story of 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 reenactment is based on the statements of key witness yuriko. 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 minsk the former interior minister your reason turned against luka schenkel people were taking to the streets in thousands hoping to stop the country's descent into dictatorship although my dear friends black ravens are circling over our country. and so yesterday. the national congress met to protect the constitution and oppose dictatorship. alexander lukashenko grew spello rules with an iron fist and the support of several elite units including the sober allegedly for him to combat organized crime but

says key witness eureka it has violently quassia the political opposition. 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 his heart and gone charles the good asian on september 16th the grinch who all the people who knew about it and were involved with that are listed here. all the orders were given orally. there's no written evidence no video footage that you know protocols. but there's nothing like that in.

your resume was only the 1st victim in september 1999 victor greene charen businessman and i told you 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 confirms both were liquidated. is a picture shows the military base and. this is where we killed them this would be. so that the middle of the middle distance there's the road. it's about 200 meters long with leaves about 20 meters into the forest this is the thing that they're pretty disturbed here we killed a gun charge. in the woods and here about 50 meters away a grave was dug in the. their clothing and here. only their shoes were thrown into

the graves and buried with them. is a. president look at consolidated his power through 2 controversial referenda in the midnight $190.00 s. good in 1960 victor good in charge chaired the central election commission but he turned against the president hoping to prevent look ashamed goes grab for more and more power $1000.00 bounty was paid for his murder as the key witness from the death squad tells that they were even given a reason why green char had to disappear from north america running. about and char when they later told us yet evidence that had come to power illegitimately. that the vote in 1906 or $97.00 had been rigged and could charge have the proof. of the. and later they told us we had to eliminate him.

because of this compromising material. and present ski are the most prominent victims of look at those regimes so far but they're certainly not the only ones every year a vigil is held in minsk for the victims many prospects for a democratic future disappeared along with the opposition's 3 leading 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 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 the 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 gravesites 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 readers and 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. their ability we have today to run and instigate

investigation that iris seems very small that's a problem it's impossible for these abductions. to have taken place we thought. 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 think you know. as serious as the allegation is it can hardly touch alexander lukashenko this president was not welcome in the west for years that changed in november 2019 when

austrian president alexander fandor belen received the dictator in vienna but the recent accusations that lucas 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 gun used the commander a colonel from the interior ministry did the shooting. has something to say to the victim's family. and i'd like to express my sincere regret that i participated in their murder. i apologize to you before you can point out the grave sites on the mount. 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 them. i thought they'd chosen people for the liquidation who didn't have any families in bellary. so they could eliminate them afterwards as well. just going to the going out i'm surprised that a witness has turned up who speaks openly about it. it took elaine as a person time to find words for the man who had abetted the murder of her father. at the new one at the view boy it's just it's not about him. but it's about the whole system behind him and he's what. he can't be blamed for anything or not but

you know people like him are dependent on the system just their force to carry out his 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 or seen mr borden. 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 immense has reopened the 20 year old case an investigation is underway.

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