{"id":152182,"date":"2025-08-22T13:54:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/152182\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"case-of-fifth-deceased-ww2-criminal-sent-to-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/152182\/","title":{"rendered":"Case of fifth deceased WW2 criminal sent to Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

August 22, Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>Belarusian Prosecutor General Andrej \u0160vied has forwarded a case against Alaksandar Jarmol\u010dyk to the Supreme Court, charging the dead Nazi collaborator with genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The auxiliary police company commander from Chojniki, Homiel region, is accused of murdering at least 246 people, including seven children, and attempted murder of at least eight more people, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The case is a part of a series of trials targeting dead perpetrators of war crimes against Belarusians, following the conviction of Volodymyr Katriuk, an ethnic Ukrainian born in 1921 in the village of Luzhany, and proceedings against ethnic Pole Konstanty Smowski last year. Both were accused of involvement in Chaty\u0144 massacre in 1943.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Belarusian government\u2019s persecution of dead Nazi war criminals is primarily politically motivated, said<\/a> Gundula Pohl, of the Institute of History in Hagen, Germany, in her article published earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt reflects the state\u2019s need to legitimize its authoritarian rule and create a new basis for national identity after the brutal suppression of peaceful civil protests in the summer of 2020,\u201d the researcher noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government started promoting the concept of genocide against Belarusians about four years ago, while Prosecutor General \u0160vied personally contributed content for a textbook on genocide for five-graders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka signed laws providing for the criminal prosecution of the dead and criminalizing the denial of genocide. Denial carries a penalty of five years in prison. Repeated violation of the law may lead to up to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Historians and analysts note that the authorities also use the genocide theme to discredit their opponents by tying their symbols to Nazi collaborators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prosecutors revise upward victim count at Tra\u015bcianiec death camp<\/h3>\n
August 12, Pozirk. At least 546,000 people murdered by the Nazis are buried in the Tra\u015bcianiec death camp near Minsk, more than double than previously assumed, the Prosecutor General's Office has said after running an information check. The public, including …<\/div>\n \n