BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

08/12/2008

Is There Any Law in Belarus? UN Commission on Human Rights Should Find it Out!

Michael Batiukov

The office the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations informed Iryna and Valerya Krasouskaya that their claim had been registered in the UN Commission on Human Rights on November 16.

As the press service of CIWR.ORG reports, Krasouskayas' claim was prepared by a Dutch law firm and it consists of 100 items, 25 documents of total more than 1000 pages is attached to it. In the own name and in the name of Anatol Krasouski, forcefully disappeared on September 16, 1999, Iryna and Valerya Krasouskayas urges the Belarusian authorities to:

1) interrogate suspects in involving in forceful disappearance of Anatol Krasouski, named in a special Memorandum of member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Christos Pourgourides;

2) satisfy numerous requests of members of Anatol Krasouski's family and the international society on conducting a careful open investigation of Anatol Krasouski's disappearance;

3) identify and point a grave site of Anatol Krasouski;

4) compensate victims of Anatol Krasouski's forceful disappearance for moral and material damage.

According to the claim of Krasouskayas, the Belarusian authorities violated articles 6, 7, 9, and 10 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The claim was filed in accordance with requirements of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the last international document signed by Belarus, obliging it to carry responsibility for crimes against its citizens.

The Belarusian authorities have 6 months to respond the claim of Iryna and Valerya Krasouskayas. After this term, it will have to enter plea to all items of the claim and/or admit its guilt and thus answer the claim of the victims.

Viktar Hanchar, vice speaker of the 13th Supreme Council of Belarus, and public figure Anatol Krasouski were kidnapped on September 16, 1999. The law enforcement bodies started an investigation, but all proofs known for the time being, have been cumulated by volunteers. Among them are glass fragments of a car, belonged to Anatol Krasouski, and blood, identified as blood of Viktar Hanchar, were found at the site of kidnapping in Fabrychnaya Street. These facts explain details of the kidnapping to the wide public and prove it was organised by the secret services, "Narodnaya Volya" notes.

In June 2001, the world community was presented evidence of KGB investigators Petrushkevich and Sluchak, who told the details of a system of neutralization of uncomfortable people in Belarus formed during the rule of Lukashenko and controlled by him.

In 2004, member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Christos Pourgourides, presented a memorandum where he said Belarusian high ranking officials were involved in forceful disappearances in Belarus. The PACE adopted a resolution urging Belarus to interrogate the mentioned in the report suspects and conduct a transparent investigation of disappearances. Belarus continues to ignore demands of the PACE. Nothing is known about destinies of forcefully disappeared Yury Zakharanka, Viktar Hanchar, Anatol Krasouski, and Zmitser Zavadski.

Source:

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/84080

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