The active investigative measures were renewed on the case of the disappearance of Dzmitry Zavadski, cameraman of the Russian ORT TV channel. On the solicitation of Hary Pahaniaila, defense lawyer of Zavadski’s relatives, the investigation searches for the body in the towns of Orsha and Krupki. The General Procurator’s Office of Belarus tells nothing about the details of this search, referring to the secret of investigation. At the same time, the commemorative actions dedicated to Iury Zakhranka, are dispersed by riot squad police. (15-MAY-2005)
The investigative group of the procurator’s office started working in Orsha on 4 May. The investigators check the information about the body of the unknown man, who in 2000 was taken there from Krupki and re-buried. According to Hary Pahaniaila, this man can be Dzmitry Zavadski:
(Pahaniaila): — The court found that Ihnatovich’s gang had relation to his disappearance. Ihatovich was born in Krupki. People saw him near Krupki, in Malinauka are, when Zavadski disappeared. Later bodies of two killed men were found there. Who were they and did former riot squad police officer Ihnatovich have relation to these deaths? There are also many questions concerning the re-burials of these bodies.
According to Hary Pahaniaila’s information, the people whose bodies were later buried in the wood were at first tortured with the use of special means and only then killed. Strangely enough, he points, the local law machinery didn’t conduct any investigation, but hurried to bury the bodies as non-identified. Later one of the bodies was recognized by relatives, taken to a settlement near Orsha and buried there. However, recently it has been found that the person who was buried is alive. It became interesting to the lawyer, who was buried in Orhsa precincts and he filed the appropriate petition to the procurator’s office of Belarus.
At the same time, the authorities prohibit and disperse the peaceful actions dedicated to commemoration ofanother missing person, the former minister of internal affairs Iury Zakharanka. In Minsk there was an attempt to hold the Chain of Concerned People, devoted to the sixth anniversary of Zakharanka’s disappearance, but in several minutes its participants were pushed out of the square by riot squad police. The people held portraits of Iury Zakharanka in general’s parade uniform, hoping the police would understand the aim of the action and pay at list a little respect to the former minister of internal affairs. The pickets in such cities as Vitsiebsk, Hrodna and Brest were dispersed as well.
In the evening of 7 May 12 Zubr activists were detained in the center of Mahiliou for the picket, devoted to the sixth anniversary of Zakharanka’s disappearance. Alieh Miatsielitsa, zubr coordinator in Mahiliou region, said that the picket was held opposite Homel regional KGB board, and Zubr activist wore red shirts with white crosses and portraits of Iury Zakharanka, Anatol Krasouski, Viktar Hanchar and Dzmitry Zavadski. They also held portraits of the missing in their hands. The picket lasted for several minutes and was dispersed by the police.
Rerpesentatives of international democratic community and political refugees from Belarus also held commemorative pickets in Warsaw (Poland) and Landshut (Germany) in order to turn attention of Europe´s citizens to disappearances of opposition´s activists in Belarus.
The upper photo: Dzmitry Zavadski, the lower — Iury Zakharanka
