Opposition designing lustration policy for Belarus

December 27, BPN. The opposition’s transition cabinet is drafting a lustration solution for Belarus, said Valer Sachaščyk, a former commander of the 38th Brest Air Assault Brigade turned the opposition’s security chief, in a YouTube address on December 27.

Since the fall of Communist regimes in Europe at the end of last century, the term “lustration” has often referred to disqualification of people implicated in abuses under those regimes. Belarus has never had this policy in place.

The solution would make it possible “without excessive radicalization to clearly separate decent members of the security forces and state administration from people who have committed and continue to commit crimes against their people,” Sachaščyk said.

“We are convinced that there are a lot of good professionals in these agencies, people who have not stained their honor. Of course, the future free Belarus needs them,” he said.

He added that the cabinet has also drafted “sanctions proposals against the cooperation between Russia’s and Belarus’ military-industrial complexes carrying out aggression against Ukraine.”