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The pines are murmuring above the grave

This year (1988), from July 6 through 15, the investigative agencies of the Procurator's Office of the BSSR carried out a selective exhumation of the graves at Kurapaty. The criminological investigation enquiry headed by Counsellor of Justice J.J.Broliss, a special investigator. A number of specialists (criminologists, medical experts, archaeologists, etc.) were officially invited to participate in the investigation. The archaeological excavations and the examination of the buried remains were carried out by a group of archaeologists from the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR (Z.S.Pazniak, M.M.Kryvalcevic, A.V.Iou). The scientific report on the archaeological investigations was reviewed, analysed, and approved by the Department of Archaeology (of that Institute) and submitted to the Procurator.  
21/10/2004 . Comments: 0

Kurapaty - the road of death

The information which we want to give our readers will be familiar to many of them. But it seems that, like us, those who knew all about it were victims of circumstance, and therefore have suffered. For us this suffering has been unbearable. Unbearable on account of the awareness that life slips quickly away, that people die, and that the memory of the terrible crimes committed during the 1930s against our nation is vanishing. Unbearable on account of the awareness that, if this memory is lost and perishes, it will all be repeated again from the beginning. 
21/10/2004 . Comments: 0

Holy place Kurapaty

Kurapaty is a holy place of Belarusan people, where the Russian communust occupants have killed more than 250.000 of martyrs. The forest Kurapaty near Minsk is one of the many places on the territory of Belarus, where victims of the Russian terror against our people have been killed and buried in 1917-41. It is possible to compare Kurapaty with Auschwitz and Buchenwald according to the big number of victims and of the large scale of the crime 
21/10/2004 . Comments: 0

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