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\n\n Viktar Han\u010dar (left) and Anatol Kraso\u016dski\n <\/div>\n \n
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September 16, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Belarusian opposition leader \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja has commemorated the 25th anniversary of the disappearance of Belarusian politician Viktar Han\u010dar and his associate, businessman Anatol Kraso\u016dski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both were \u201ckidnapped and murdered by the dictator’s death squads,\u201d she said on X. “Their bodies were never recovered. The regime must be held accountable for all its crimes during three decades of dictatorship.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The high-profile 1999 political kidnappings were not investigated in Belarus and did not feature prominently during the subsequent presidential elections, in which Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka was declared the winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2001 report by Christos Pourgourides, rapporteur of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, concluded that \u201csteps were taken at the highest level of the state to actively cover up the true background of the disappearances.\u201d Evidence suggested that \u201csenior officials of the state may themselves be involved in these disappearances,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, media reported that exiled Juryj Hara\u016dski admitted to being a member of a government-run death squad that allegedly abducted and killed Kraso\u016dski and Han\u010dar in 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 28, the district court of the Swiss city of Rorschach, St. Gallen, acquitted him of involvement in the disappearance of former Interior Minister Juryj Zacharanka, businessman Anatol Kraso\u016dski and opposition politician Viktar Han\u010dar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also read: Hara\u016dski acquitted, but his trial is a warning to abusers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trial was important because Belarusian investigators have not established the fact of the abduction and murder. The Belarusian investigators admitted that the opposition figures had vanished, but said they did not know what had happened to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also read: Hara\u016dski acquitted, but his trial is a warning to abusers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

September 16, Pozirk. Belarusian opposition leader \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja has commemorated the 25th anniversary of the disappearance of Belarusian politician Viktar Han\u010dar and his associate, businessman Anatol Kraso\u016dski. Both were \u201ckidnapped and murdered by the dictator’s death squads,\u201d she said on X. “Their bodies were never recovered. The regime must be held accountable for all its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":104995,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-105104","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nOpposition leader demands justice for victims on anniversary of 1999 disappearance | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 16, Pozirk. 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