The remains of the executed people have been found in a forest near the village of Chajsy Viciebsk region, reburied in Łośvida. According to official figures, killed - victims of the Great Patriotic War. However, members of the public, who conducted his own investigation, assured that the dead - victims of Stalinism.
Mass grave near the village of Chajsy was found two years ago. In autumn 2014, activists from Viciebsk found in the woods excavated pit in which lay the remains of the executed people - bones and skulls with bullet holes.
A Viciebsk citizen Jan Dzyarzhautsau, a member of the Conservative Christian Party BPF, mingle with the locals. According to his more than twenty-five people, mass executions of civilians occurred in the late 1930s.
Initiative Group "Chajsy" created by partial Viciebsk citizens, appealed to the prosecutor and the investigating committee to conduct an investigation into the discovery of mass graves of executed people. Invited initiative group of scientists have confirmed the similarity of burial in Chajsy to Kurapaty near Minsk.
However Mazałava village council, to which the village of Chajsy, said they had no money for a memorial. And there was a publication with the prosecution of the "Chajsy" activists as "black diggers" in "Žyćcio Prydźvińnia" local newspaper.
The activities of the initiative group and independent media coverage. As a result, the Mazałava village council chairman Leonid Dubina called search battalion.
At the site of a mass grave under Chajsy worked servicemen of the 52nd Battalion of a separate specialized. The remains of 172 people found and reburied now Łośvida.
However, the activists of the "Chajsy" the time and place of reburial was not informed in advance. As we learned from the local newspaper, the remains of dead people as wars reburied victims. About who and under what circumstances a mass grave found near Chajsy, the publication did not report.
Initiative group "Chajsy" is not got a chance to get acquainted with the conclusions drawn during the search of the battalion. Activists have shown only single sheets from the report, according to which the discovered during searches of things indicate that buried near Chajsy people died in the Great Patriotic War. The exact time and cause of their death was not determined.
However, activists believe that the reburied people died before the war began. This is evidenced as the memories of local residents, and found along with the remains of people's footwear, made in 1935 - 1937 years, and the sleeve of the weapon, which is usually used NKVDisty, and the way the murder of a shot in the head.
Activists of the initiative group "Chajsy" believe that the memory of the dead people do not properly memorialized. In addition, the exhumed remains are not all victims. Therefore, the group "Chajsy" will continue its activities. Activists plan to hold shares of cleaning mass graves under Chajsy are going to install the memorial crosses.
Catherine Zahorskaya
Photo: Julia Gavrilenko, pridvinje.by
