More Polish WW2 soldiers’ graves destroyed near Hrodna

September 13, BPN. The graves of four Polish Armija Krajowa soldiers killed in a battle with German troops in 1943, have been destroyed near the village of Pliabaniški, Hrodna district, the unofficial Union of Poles in Belarus reported, citing its activists.

A cross at the place of soldiers’ deaths was installed by the local residents in the 1990s.

Attacks on Polish soldiers’ graves and memorials in Belarus have been reported since June. According to the Polish Consulate General in Hrodna, at least nine Polish memorial sites were ruined as of July 13. On August 25, Polish military cemetery was bulldozed in another act of vandalism near the village of Surkonty in the Hrodna region.

As part of decommunization, Poland demolished Soviet monuments but it has not destroyed burial sites.