Within the next man would have done it all the focus on. We are talking about a conspiracy. Why dont you like about human rights and the road she would hear you have the right just there in the streets and. With that all good and dark when you was admitted to hospital 10 months ago he could only walk in passing it. On his right hip had been smashed to pieces in a car accident in bella ruse ury fled to a german speaking region in the alps which shall remain unnamed his application for asylum is still pending then 41 years old yuri received a hip replacement at a hospital in his host country. He has been scarred for life not only by the accident which he thinks was an attempt on his life but also by an event that turned him into a criminal and destroyed his family. And moved the saddle to the shores why i left my family in 2009 tough to the attempt on my life yup when the i realized that my wife and daughter was sacred to me and so i decided to get divorced but the more you know as youll see since then i have lived a life also it so the. Hearing no longer felt safe in his home country because he wanted to speak out get the burden off his chest as he explains he alleges that his former comrades from the mint Security Unit were pursuing him. As the former i had information that they would either arrest me or imprisonment is. The labor i didnt want to sit in jail or make a confession is ludicrous ill or be accused of something i hadnt done though as a kid the book. Store doing on them. Eerie was involved in a crime that has shaken people in Eastern Europe to this day the old fire station in the heart of minsk this is where the former minister of the interior yuris eco ranko parked his car on the evening of may 7th 1909. Zachary enco was a key figure of the opposition as always he walked the last few meters to his home. The reconstruction of the crime is based on the account of the key witness eureka rap scheme 2 men follow saccharin car so he is unable to escape. 2 more men block his path ahead they are soldiers dressed in plain clothes they belong to the sauber special unit. One of the men says they are policeman and if he needs to go with them. 20 years ago the political situation in minsk was dramatic the former minister of the interior. Had changed sides and was now the head of the opposition tens of thousands of protestors were on the streets trying to prevent their country from becoming a dictatorship. With 2 controversial referenda bella ruse president made a bid to gain total power and exclude parliament. The peoples representatives in Parliament Went on a Hunger Strike in vain. But there was the. Since then look how has been ruling almost singlehandedly deloris is seen as the last dictatorship in europe a police state in its purest form. Previously as minister of the interior zakhar enco had tried to bring the country more and more towards the west on a visit to bonn he signed an agreement on Police Cooperation with germany. But it was not going as of yet there was no it is just not as it was. Thank you this move led to a clash with the president whose rule became increasingly authoritarian the opposition rallied and military officers joined forces with them with the aim of ousting look at. All right. He agreed. Dear friends. Lack ravens are circling above our land. Thats why the National Congress came together yesterday to protect the constitution against the dictatorship. Back then our witness your ego of ski was 18 years old during his military service he joined a special unit and was soon integrated into a newly founded Intervention Force called saba where he spent 5 years finally receiving a promotion he keeps copies of Important Documents in the refugee home where hes staying and tells us that the originals are in a safe place. This is my membership card for the special units Veterans Association the. People are served in the fighting units of the ministry of internal affairs get one of these i was Deputy Commander in the 1st group this is the card you get if you were in the sober. Bella ruse has several special units made up of hardened soldiers who are loyal to their president here they show what theyre capable of in the mens football stadium images from 20 years ago. Saw his mission was to tackle smugglers and the mafia but our witness says that wasnt their sole task sauber was also deployed to forcibly eliminate the opposition. This is. In this summary i made a note of who was involved in the elimination of zachary and co on may the 7th and who was involved in eliminating gunshot on september the 16th who series a list of all the people who knew about it and who were involved is this. Who all of your orders were given verbal ie the media just all of them there is no written evidence because of the over here recordings no minutes reports or anything like that of. All of. The corn sure it was probably on behalf of president Lucas Shanker or lib i dont know i cant say. Lins not anymore who is. Zachary and co does not put up a fight. In the car he tells his kidnappers please do a painlessly the car leaves minsk heading north. Bellerose 1st became an independent state after the collapse of the soviet union since 991 minsk has been the capital of a nation with around 10000000 citizens. A statue of lenin leader of the revolution and founder of the soviet union stands in front of the seat of government even today a very soviet style is much in evidence a corner building on independence street houses the ministry of internal affairs once the work place of year is occurring next door the headquarters of the Intelligence Service the k. G. B. Back then as today a field center of power or leg of all chick has suffered a great deal of persecution and suppression by the state the civil rights activist and lawyer represents the secular and her family in minsk at the war here we are in germany at the home of soccer and those wives this is his eldest daughter thats me in the middle the writers are correct his wife they live in germany as political refugees. Theres an atmosphere of great fear in our country if you express your opinions and you can end up in jail or be forced into corrective therapy that soviet system still exists in our country today. The 2nd case in september 1909 victor gone child and businessman Anatoly Cross off ski were kidnapped in front of sauna number 3 in minsk they 2 opponents of the regime and members of the opposition plotting to oust the president the witness tells us that both of them were to be eliminated. This is the military base invader. This this is where we killed. About 200 meters he goes about 20 meters into the forest this is. This is where we killed. The land here about 50 meters away as grave was done because this. Was this would. Dress them and burn their clothing here only their shoes were tossed into the grave and buried with. Their families half the time victor gone child was the head of the Central Election Commission he stood up against president who wanted more power gone child was trying to stop him brute force was deployed against gone child and his staff during the referendum 34. 00 couple more fought for peace started k. G. B. Agents and special units to their offices. Prevention gone from entering. You on their property the witness from the death squad tells us that there was a reward of a 1000. 00 for murdering gone shot. If you can i was blown up really just north america on an. They were given a reason for getting rid of gone china. In the bubblegum sure all those cars in the bomb store when noble we were told later on charge had evidence showing that lucas shango had come to power illegitimately and that the vote in 1996 was rigged. That it was a storm that the gunshot was in possession of this evidence. You know when you were brilliant the they told us afterwards that we had eliminated him because of this compromising material that we would have. Gone char zakhar enco and cross off ski with the most prominent victims of the look of shanghai regime but they were not the only ones. Every year the vigil in minsk commemorates the victims. With the disappearance of the 3 politicians the countrys chances of Democratic Development also vanished this was good and there is remorse there is a sense of guilt if these people were still alive things would be different in belarus today was. Worth a lot of things would be better today and most importantly there would be no war hero we would have a say in things of saccharine corner gone char was still alive. All of vote shows us a figure of an angel. Its a present from the eldest daughter of the minister of the interior who disappeared visited her in germany. She said this angeles for you ellen as a committed or self its a guardian angel. On the evening of may 7th 1999 youre exactly right i had nobody to help protect him. The death squad drove him to a military Training Ground around 20 minutes outside of minsk. The pistol that was used to assassinate him was a special model built for close range use the official weapon for executions in belarus. In northern germany this is where your family lives in exile his widow 2 daughters and grandchildren who never saw they grandfather. Is the eldest daughter she works as a saleswoman and is the only member of her family to publicly discuss their plight. She and her family came to germany a year after her father disappeared and reluctantly applied for asylum. And i was hooked up to the usually when we arrived in germany we already had tickets for our return flight we came here to report in a democratic country on the situation in our home country. That was all we were planning to do just on us and not subside hoping it will but then we got a call that the k. G. B. Had started criminal investigations accusing us of vilifying the honor and dignity of the belarus president and the state is actually the thats. Today is the 1st time that. Has heard about the witness and his statement regarding the details of her fathers death. At 1st she is skeptical and struggles with her emotions. Its a fact that just i hope the facts are true and they can be checked of course it is difficult to hear about this and to see the burial sites. Let alone to hear how it happened i think. You need nerves of steel in your need. Are the facts correct they could be initial answers to this question in strasbourg christiane and i got to listen to the witness statement great is a defense lawyer from cyprus 15 years ago he investigated the disappearance of the bellerose opposition politicians for the council of europe. Is still following the cases today the council of europe scrutinizes human rights and all the more closely in the case of bella reuss the ability we have today to run the vince again investigation that iris seems very small. Thats a problem well the. Never approach if i would close the day when a problem investigation is conducted and there are findings as to up hold up and police disappear people its impossible for these abductions and murders to have taken place without the concept to put it mildly of very very high your fish. And when i say very high your fish alice my mind goes to the president. Who was he knew about it maybe he didnt know but i can be sure but i think he did not know. Accusations that barely reach Alexander Lukashenko for many years the president of Bella Research was not welcome in the west that changed in nov 29th cheney. The austrian president received the dictator from minsk in vienna. It was local visit to an e. U. Country in many years. And at the press conference the question of the opposition politicians who disappeared was raised. Did not and some bought he admitted that he rules his country in an authoritarian mannah. Words i also want the citizens of our country to be absolutely sovereign and independent we know that we are only a selfsufficient independent and our citizens are only as free as our situation allows us and that situation is very complicated its muscle actually. Up to murdering zecher and the killers drugged but to minsk. Gorecki says he had no choice he had to take part in the assassination. Or. The good of the doing was but there was no girl in the limelight of question that would leave down inside. But when a young man receives an order either your part of the system or you are not. Adorable so i knew i had to follow this through the use of the bruise of the guns if i had the final guy would have ended up in the same hole in the ground. Was the corporate sucker of the hood and. For the council of europe investigate his 2nd rank os murder was clearly the work of a death squad. A death swore. By publishing books. For peace or for just. The officer allegedly responsible has already been named in an official document from minsk which was passed to investigators from the bellerose public prosecutors office. Death school. House. On behalf of the state thats why they use the pistol from war that will use for the visual executions. Just to give it an appearance that these where will teach alex ignitions. And thats a kind of message to 0 zopa nuns to say you know this is not obvious sure but it is really us with this sub so someone to put the pressure to put the terror on the orders. After the murder the assassins bring the body back to minsk. The car leaves the city Marshal White and heads for symmetry. The Group Commander colonel public disappears with the corpse in the direction of the crematorium there is no trace of the body after that. The witness statement severely incriminates dimitri pavlyuchenko a highly decorated officer in the bellows ministry of internal affairs as did the man who deployed the soap a special unit as a death squad to also murder the opposition politicians. We soldiers were just carrying out orders we only arrested the man. We didnt pull the trigger we didnt carry out the liquidation order or did that he was the one who pulled the trigger. A witness is not obliged to incriminate himself therefore some doubt still remain as to what actually happened the families of those left behind continue to demand justice for the events of 20 years ago gorecki has a message for them but most of all for the relatives of the dead. Here the north koreans by express my deepest condolences. I was involved in these murders and i offer my apologies and i can show you where they are buried on the map you heard on the air. Everything else depends on you and the judicial system in belarus a lot of this is the. Words of remorse which need to be processed. On the hook to tell ken i accepted. Exactly how big it. He was and what i thought they had chosen people with no family or relatives in bella ruse to carry out the assassinations so that they could also be liquidated afterwards. Thing thought it of that being out. Of order and im surprised that a witness has turned up who was willing to talk about it openly. Talk about it to a close. Elena zachary and co finds her response later directed at the man who was an accessory to the murder of her father. At the new one if you will its its just its not about him its about the whole system behind him and you just said yes we cannot be blamed personally. And that but you know she died to the pound yes people like him are dependent on this system and theyre forced to commit its gruesome crimes. Even if i said this to him i cant say it to the thousands of others who served with him mr bush. The political system in bellerose systematically violates human rights the flags of 47 Member States can be seen outside the council of europe building in strasbourg the bella reuss flag is not among them in order to become a member bellerose would 1st have to face up to its past otherwise it will remain an outsider in europe you cant consider a society as a wealthy and i would say a consolidated society with the open the capacity the the possibility to know what happened we cant condemn that but 1st we must know must clearly know what is responsible. In 4th disappearance is a way to i actually i think they all democracies of europe. Will not. Accept. Without solving the important issue of that is appearances and many other problems as one of the axis is not only this problem. This i can describe it as an important. The tip of the iceberg we should everybody sees but they be in the water they are easy to be. Civil rights and liberties are violated in belarus its the only country in europe with the Death Penalty is still in forced the media is firmly in the hands of the state there is hope for change mainly among young people and human rights activists who can still remember the events of 20 years ago when the opposition was brutally eliminated. And i believe that the disappearance of the politicians and deloris will be resolved its no longer just a matter for the government history has taught us that. In latin america similar cases were investigated 30 years later and are still being investigated. And bella ruse is in europe and. Europe has not forgotten bellerose all the opposition politicians who disappeared. Human rights activists from Amnesty International have planted trees for them in the dutch city of aand hovan. Is an hour speech will in the growth of remember and. When i got a letter out in the. Writing we are wounded by our past in this war and will never heal. It will always open up again in our memories in our dreams. Not being able to say goodbye to someone not being able to bury him is the worst punishment there is. Because. The past is a lifelong burden. It is only when the murders have been resolved that this burden may become lifetime for those left behind as well as the better ruse. Shashank hello this is your new balls speaking when i come to the show with the ding dong xoai and concerts with the instruments guests. Its. Clear to. Her. Welcome to. W. Place. Play. This is d w news live from but boeing suspends production all of its ill fated 737 max and not regulate has grounded the pilot plane off due to fatal crashes it just fine now the seattle based u. S. Play makers halting the Assembly Line for one of its best that it will look at the fallout for the industry