Immediate responses received by members of the public initiative "Chajsy" from the executive committee of the District of Viciebsk and Viciebsk city military commissariat, they did not add optimism to the case involving the discovery of fragments of human remains in the woods near Viciebsk.
Since last November, members of the public of Viciebsk can not get from the state structures of the Viciebsk region perform their regular professional duties. Back in May, members of the initiative "Chajsy" received from the Investigative Committee of the Viciebsk district notice of the refusal to initiate criminal proceedings. Medley with a variety of examinations, the UK still has not given answers to the key questions: "Who owns the discovered parts of human skeletons and at what time in the woods committed massacres?". But in the regional newspaper "Žyćcio Prydźvińnia" I published an article in which the author tried to convince the public that it looters have dug the grave of the victims of Nazism.
As they say members of the initiative "Chajsy", the position set out in the local press, and the position taken by the local authorities, impress with their indifference to innocent victims, neither the author nor Mazałava rural executive committee, nor the Viciebsk Regional Executive Committee or other competent authorities have not shown no initiative to find the "black diggers" who dug up nearly four mass graves.
Community activists tend to believe that the delay in this case by the authorities or district is intentional or evidence of professional incompetence or lack of interest in clarifying all the circumstances surrounding the tragic events of the past. Convinced of this and the next answers received the other day from the Viciebsk combined municipal military commissariat and the Viciebsk Regional Executive Committee, signed by the acting military commissar of Viciebsk and Viciebsk region Lieutenant Colonel A. Osinovik and deputy chairman of the Viciebsk Regional Executive Committee Xenia Karabach. From the responses, it follows that the clarification of the circumstances of the case postponed indefinitely.
From these responses, activists learned that in May, after receiving information from the Viciebsk regional department of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus about the discovery of human remains, together with the Military Commissariat of the Viciebsk Regional Executive Committee was composed newsletter. According to the law, he was sent to management to perpetuate the memory of Fatherland Defenders and the Armed Forces of the victims of war to make a decision on carrying out search operations. However, the launch of the search battalion will depend on the result of investigation that, despite the refusal to initiate criminal proceedings, nevertheless maintained.
According to Lieutenant Colonel A. Osinovik, "representative search battalion, together with a representative of the Investigative Committee conducted site inspection found the remains," and "skeletal remains and associated objects" are taken for examination. Social activists say that in itself is a message can be considered quite positive against the background of previous formal approaches demonstrated by the authorities. "But whether this fact will contribute to truth, or everything is done to simply slow down the business – will know after a while," – activists say.
With regard to the burial of activities to participate in that call in their complaints the applicants, here approaches the Commissariat and executive committee are somewhat different. Acting Military Commissioner, this question is left without consideration, as the "event of burial (reburial) ... installation of gravestone constructions do not fall within the competence of the military commissariat." But the deputy chairman of the executive committee, Mrs. Karabach reported that the issue of reburial and inviting priests will be decided after the excavations and the establishment of the period and the nature of the burial.
"Outwardly, all power structures adhere strictly to the letter of the law. However, you will agree, is that in almost a year, they are at least one step, no closer to the clarification of the resonance of the case, it should be alerted not only the civil society activists, but also all of those who care. Bureaucratic sluggishness borders on callousness and alienation from the problems related to that at all times indicative of the real state of any state and society. If you speak softly, this state is quite far from the only elementary democratic standards, but also from ordinary human relationships to the memory of ancestors, "– said a member of the public initiative "Chajsy" Jan Dzyarzhautsau.
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